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The Prime Minister and CLG Ministers wish to see local authorities publish granular local spending data. The Public Sector Transparency Board has been set up to drive an open data agenda. The Prime Minister has made a specific commitment that new items of local government spending over £500 be published on a council-by-council basis from January 2011. http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/statements-and-articles/2010/05/letter-t... Many local authorities also wish to publish such data. Camden Council asked the Panel for advice on publishing information about payments to suppliers greater than £500 in value.

The Local e-Government Standards Body (LeGSB) was re-launched at the NWeGG Annual Conference on 7 November 2006. Established to support the needs of Local Authorities and the Transformational Government agenda, LeGSB is embarking on a journey to facilitate the take up of standards, which can then be mapped onto a Local Government standards architecture reference model and developed with the local government community.

Steve, I used the LeGsb email address to contact Paul Davidson, but got no response. Do you know if LeGSB is performing a function or has it beed overtaken by LGDP?

Gary - good question, but don't know. I'll ask that question of Tim Allen when I get to my IDeA email this morning.

Local government agency to launch Knowledge Hub Local Government Improvement and Development (LGID) is to set up an new online professional network for council officials

Local Government Improvement and Development (LGID) is to set up an new online professional network for council officials

Having trouble persuading your managers of the benefits of open data? Or just need persuading yourself? Well here we try convincing all of you. What follows is a Q&A compiled initially by Dan Slee of Walsall Council and Stuart Harrison of Lichfield District Council. The first part is a bit of background information, the second part comprises some responses to common arguments. This work is ongoing, and this page will occasionally be updated accordingly. You can watch and contribute on the Open Local Data wiki

This guidance has been produced by the Local Public Data Panel, and builds on the draft guidance published in June this year by the panel, on comments made on that guidance, the Treasury guidance to central government departments on releasing their spending data, and experience from publishing the data, and, crucially, using and analysing it.

New approaches to information, data sharing and engagement are helping local public services work more closely with citizens. Using social media strategically and opening up public data can have significant benefits to citizens and local government. The following are some examples and resources available to support collaborative working.

The Local Government Group (LGG) is launching a "Knowledge Hub" development for 2011 that will support service improvement, efficiencies and innovation across local government

A key tool in the online delivery armoury of the Local Government Group (www.local.gov.uk), the Knowledge Hub is about sharing and working together, enabling the millions of people across the Public Sector to collaborate to provide better services and to engage with the recipients of those services

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and Local Government Association Chair Baroness Eaton joined forces today to urge all councils to publish details of all spending over £500 in full and online as part of wider action to bring about a revolution in town hall openness and accountability.

Ask every local authority in England to publish all its spending over £500 in an open format and what do you get? A whole load of PDFs. See our list of the best and the worst.

The Knowledge Hub - a single window into local government improvement (video)

The Knowledge Hub programme aims to create a single window to improvement in local government. It will use Web 2.0 technology and services, and build on the current community of practice platform, to support networking, collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Local Authorities that have open datasets (provided by LB Brent eGovernment Register)

The Civica group is a market leader in specialist systems and outsourcing services that help organisations to improve service delivery and efficiency. Everything we do is focused on the local outcomes our customers need to achieve.

A high-level, informal discussion piece about the possibilities of linked data and some of the realities of open data.

A great example of the Government's 'Transparency' agenda (open data and all that) in use. This showing council expenditure by supplier. Neat.

Open and linked data spend application for the Knowledge Hub

Gov/Local Gov open data survey by Tim Davies

The future for gov and local gov

The Upload page lets a council officer, logged in to esd-toolkit, upload a CSV (comma separated variables) spreadsheet of spending data for hosting as Linked Data or download in various tidied formats, including Linked Data for local hosting.