Round up from the Local Open Data Community of Practice Speak now… The LG Transparency guides are in their last few days of open consultation – share your views now. Open data online conference The LG Transparency programme is sponsoring the open data strand of the Local by Social online conference. The Local by Social [...]
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via flickr.com Lichfield DC has been doing some cool stuff with open data, but they understand that not everything has to be built by the council. But there is a role for working with developers and understanding how you can release your data and which data sets need to be released to make stuff for [...]
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I was up in Warrington this week at NWEGG‘s Social Media in the public sector conference. We heard from Liz Azyan who gave a sweeping overview of social media and also Lynne Shackley from the Information Commissioner’s Office who said cheery things like “custodial sentences” and “greater enforcement powers” but also raised some really important [...]
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Today the LG Group opened consultation on two practitioners’ guides to publishing open data. And we’re doing it openly. Which is brilliant. You can find it at www.lgtransparency.readandcomment.com These very practical and detailed guides on publishing spending and salaries data openly are designed to help people deliver on the commitment to greater transparency, initially by publishing finance [...]
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via jamescousins.com Continuing with councillor blogs- Wandsworth councillor James Cousins (Conservative) has been blogging for a while – and it’s fair to say that this is the councillor blog I read the most, not because of its quality (though I do think it’s pretty darn good) but because I am a resident! Like many good [...]
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Some groovy events going on… There are still places for gov-types at CityCamp London – and councils that would like help doing good stuff with their data or social tech are still required. I’m very excited about this event. Folks in the West Midlands are getting together on 6 October for a Hyperlocal gov camp. [...]
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I used to be a regular on the performance management speaking circuit. Up and down the land. Often two-handers with an Audit Commission colleague David Pottruff. Pottruff und Koehler – sounds like the title of some kind of bad German police procedural or more likely a Fast Show sketch. But I don’t really work on [...]
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If you have business in London, you’ll be painfully aware that there’s industrial action on the Underground today. Fortunately and entirely coincidentally, I’d already planned to work at home today. Since, I’m not trudging around Central London – in the rain – today, I was able to see a cool new use of some open [...]
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via flickr.com The LGA has just released a report on how councils are using tech to save millions. It features a number of examples on how geo-spatial data has been packaged up in apps to help local people access services more conveniently and save money. Whether it’s bin men working smarter, fewer phone calls to [...]
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via rbkc.gov.uk Kensington and Chelsea have joined the growing number of councils that are exposing their expenditure data. Although there are only 20ish so far, that number is getting bigger all the time, so much so that I’ve made the decision that I’m no longer going to feature councils that just publish expenditure data in [...]
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