The UK government has launched a call for evidence of the potential benefits greater data sharing and open dating could bring to the banking industry.
The UK government claims a number of Departments are now starting to publish in open formats with support from major software providers.
A new report has claimed that unless local government in the UK begins to better understand and harness the power of data, it risks making itself irrelevant.
Manchester City Council, Salford City Council and Trafford Council have partnered up to find the best way to make the most of their data.
Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has re-emphasised the “digital by default” agenda.
The Open Data Institute (ODI), an organisation that promotes open data culture, has claimed that open data will play a key role in any future UK government.
Reading Borough Council has made its real time transport information available to the public allowing citizens to make informed decisions on how to travel around time.
In a bid to promote transparency and open data within public sector organisations, the Scottish government has published what it is calling an “open data resource pack.”
An antique NASA probe that's just made a successful flyby of the Moon: an example of how powerful crowdsourcing can be, say observers.
What happened to all that talk of creating new industries out of all our public data? The MD of a supercomputer firm says, It's happening - slowly.
There's no doubt the UK leads the way in open government data, with almost 17,000 datasets now available on the data.gov.uk website. Here's how you can make the most of it.
In an announcement this week, the UK government said it will be releasing £1.5m to open data projects across the country as part of a new Release of Data fund.
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