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A letter from Prime Minister David Cameron to Government departments on plans to open up Government data * Historic COINS spending data to be published online in June 2010. * All new central government ICT contracts to be published online from July 2010. * All new central government lender documents for contracts over £10,000 to be published on a single website from September 2010, with this information to be made available to the public free of charge. * New items of central government spending over £25,000 to be published online from November 2010. * All new central government contracts to be published in full from January 2011. * Full information on all DFID international development projects over £500 to be published online from January 2011, including financial information and project documentation.

The SIOC initiative (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) aims to enable the integration of online community information. SIOC provides a Semantic Web ontology for representing rich data from the Social Web in RDF.

ScraperWiki is an online tool to make that process simpler and more collaborative. Anyone can write a screen scraper using the online editor, and the code and data are shared with the world. Because it's a wiki, other programmers can contribute to and improve the code. And, if you're not a programmer yourself, you can request a scraper or ask the ScraperWiki team to write one for you.

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

SIOC is a Social Semantic Web project that originated at DERI, NUI Galway (funded by SFI) and which aims to interlink online communities with semantic technologies.

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.

Essential to monitoring and comparing the reputation of all UK councils online.

A servive that could be integrated with KHub.

This is an online report based on an MSc Dissertation at the Oxford Internet Institute by Tim Davies submitted to the University of Oxford, July 2010. It is shared using the Digress.it platform which allows for paragraph level commenting and hyperlinking to elements of the document.

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

Unvarnished is an online resource for building, managing, and researching professional reputation, using community-contributed, professional reviews...not sure if this is the type of thing we're looking for but could be useful when considering achievements and systems cred stuff?

KM World Award for Trend setting Software, maybe an option to go for when the K-hub is up and running

Turn your spreadsheet into a map 1 - Upload your spreadsheet 2 - Get an interactive online map in seconds

Turn your data into a map

36 presenters over 5 days, that sounds like a big event

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.