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Our taxes fund the collection of public data - yet we have to pay again to access it. Making it freely available to stimulate innovation.
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All the latest machinations in our campaign.
Most recent
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27 Jun 2014:
FoI request reveals data on 173m individual trips in US city - but could yield more details, such as drivers' addresses and income. By Alex Hern
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17 Mar 2014: Postcode Address File (PAF) should have been kept as open data for government, says committee. By Charles Arthur
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27 Feb 2014:
After talks with the cabinet office, real-time river levels, flood maps and more could all become available as free and commercially reusable data. By Charles Arthur
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26 Nov 2013:
Ami Sedghi: Corporation signals its willingness to collaborate with the Open Data Institute and three other non-profit bodies
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28 Oct 2013:
Which countries are the best for open data? A ranking by the Open Knowledge Foundation has attempted to rank countries on exactly this by looking at ten key areas. See which countries perform best and which still have a way to go
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20 Aug 2013:
Artist creates homage to free information campaigner Aaron Swartz at Mexico City gallery
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2 Jun 2013:
Aaron Swartz campaigned for a free and open internet. But after he fell foul of US authorities, he took his own life. His former girlfriend tells Elizabeth Day of her anger at his treatment
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15 May 2013:
Stephan Shakespeare, CEO of YouGov, has published his independent review into open government data in the UK. What's he said, what's he missed, and what will it mean?
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2 May 2013:
If you want the data on the proposed routes for the new High Speed 2 line, you need to go to a small campaigning blog. Why, asks Sheffield University's Alasdair Rae
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30 Apr 2013:
Interview: Meet the man who helped create Britain's open data regime
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Video
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29 Apr 2013:
We brought together a leading panel on open data. Watch it here
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26 Apr 2013:
Which governments wanted Google to remove content - and asked for information on web users this year so far?
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Interactive,
25 Apr 2013:
We have assembled a panel of the finest voices in open data in the UK today. Watch the livestream of the debate
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25 Apr 2013:
US organisation Datakind - which joins developers with charities - is starting up in the UK. Kaitlin Thaney explains why
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4 Apr 2013:
Journalists have been working with - and visualising - data since the Guardian first published in 1821. In the second part of our documentary on data journalism, Simon Rogers reports on its history at the Guardian
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