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"In my humble opinion, there are two main reasons to be cautious: 1. Contests so far have generated relatively few ideas, most of which either relate to the realm of politics (e.g. how to map funding to politicians to what they do) or to relatively narrow areas, such as crime-related information. I have not yet seen anything extraordinary that would have a significant impact on service levels. 2. Contestants are necessarily either professional programmers, working for a vendor or self employed, or geeks. My contention is neither category is very likely to be hugely representative of the public at large."

"An increasing number of peer-reviewed journals and research funding agencies require authors to make available the raw, unprocessed data supporting the findings reported in their research articles --. -- But there is little practical guidance available on how data should be shared, particularly in clinical research where sharing information about individuals without their consent presents risks to privacy - both from a legal and ethical perspective."

4iP were at City Hall with Boris and others yesterday for the GLA's announcement about the London Datastore, and he promised to release two hundred public data sets into the wild. With the expected release of Central Government's own open data initiative, data.gov.uk, also at the end of the month, Government and its agencies are at the start of their journey to open up their data. With significant political and developer momentum now behind this 4iP would like to offer its own unique support.

Isoja rahoja luvassa data.gov.uk:n hyödyntäjille!