
Post: 28 June 2015 This week the UK Environment Secretary, Elizabeth Truss, gave a speech in which she announced that: Over the next year we will be making 8,000 datasets publicly available, in the biggest data giveaway that Britain has…
Post: 24 April 2015 There’s an excellent new article by Marc Ambasna-Jones on the Guardian website: Does the UK need a chief data officer? It includes some quotes from me on aspects related to open data. Following are the full…
Post: 18 January 2015 A week ago I wrote about Environment Agency’s Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (RoFRS) dataset, which has recently been released as open data. Since then Shoothill have launched a new website based on the…