Government responds to the Power of Information Review

I'm happy to see that the Government has accepted most of the recommendations in the Power of Information review. You can see Sam Smith's annotatable version here.

I'll try to keep a close eye on what acceptance means in practice, and will hopefully be able to answer questions from the implementation teams. I may even start referring all the people who phone and email asking if they can get postcodes & boundaries & maps for their non-profit purposes towards the civil servants responsible for getting them more information ;)

Comments

[Alex]

Tom

From what it says on Fixmystreet, the programming team has been able to get most of the geographical and other information from the relevant parties.

Should we start a site where all the government's open responses that contain such information are posted ?

opengovernment.org ??

[Tom Steinberg]

Hi Alex,

I'm not quite sure what you're asking for here. FixMyStreet gets data that other non-profits can't have because it was built using government funding. This means it gets covered by the Pan Government Agreement between the Ordnance Survey and the sponsoring ministry.

The need for more information is not for people in mySociety's lucky position, it is for the keen people without government contacts.

best,

Tom

[Kathryn Corrick]

Congrats Tom!
Acceptance could mean lots in practice, but the announcement from the government is quite a step forward from anyone's point of view.

[Mana]

People should read this.

[dissertation help]

Blogs are good for every one where we get lots of information for any topics nice job keep it up !!!
_________________________

http://www.dissertation-help.co.uk/

[Business plan]

Hi,
Thanks for the wonderful article.

[Essay Writing]

Hi,
I personally like your post; you have shared good insights and experiences. It is such an interesting post.

[Assignment Help]

Hi,
It’s an interesting article. Thanks for sharing.

[Custom Essay Writing]

Hi,

Nice info at this post thanks!!! I really like it

[Dissertation Help]

Hi,
This is really great work. Thank you for sharing such a useful piece of information here in the blog.

[Term Paper Help]

Hi,
Nice post! I am 100% agreed with you. Thanks for sharing this information.

[Essay Papers]

Hello,
Excellent post, I really enjoy reading this article, thank you so much for sharing it.

[custom research paper]

Hi,
You obviously put a lot of work into that post and it’s very interesting to see the thought process that you went through to come up with those conclusion. Really interesting and informative article, keep posting. Nice work, thanks for such information.

[Dissertation Help]

Nice, accurate and to the point. Not everyone can provide information with proper flow. Good post. I am going to save the URL and will definitely visit again. Keep it up.