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Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude and Business Minister Edward Davey have outlined plans for a new Public Data Corporation. The Corporation will, for the first time, bring together Government bodies and data into one organisation and provide an unprecedented level of easily accessible public information and drive further efficiency in the delivery of public services.

"Public Data" is the objective, factual, non-personal data on which public services run and are assessed, and on which policy decisions are based, or which is collected or generated in the course of public service delivery.

Gapcast video showing how public service data can be utilised in Gapminder.

A sensible commentary on the mass participation potential of opening up public data.

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.

Good data visualisation can help users explore and understand the patterns and trends in data, and also communicate that understanding to others to help them make robust decisions based on the data being presented. This site supports public sector researc

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.

Open PSI is a collaboration between the University of Southampton and the UK government, lead by the National Archive, to trial a new form of community provisioned information service. This is a new form of "community provisioned" Information Service where we hope to stimulate interaction between the following communities: public sector information publishers, the research community, mashup creators

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.

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.

The launch of legislation.gov.uk by The [UK] National Archives marks a step change in public access to a primary source of legal information for citizens in the UK. Legislation.gov.uk is extensive, covering the four jurisdictions that make up the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) and over 800 years of history. An excelent summary by John Sheridan,h ead of e-Services and Strategy at The [UK] National Archives, where he leads the team responsible for legislation.gov.uk.

esd-toolkit then intends to publish open information on more than 1000 projects and work with SPARK and public and third sector initiatives across Europe to implement a standard means of referencing projects.

New open data licence for public sector data.

The Innovation Hub is a virtual space enabling digital innovation of public services.

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

The UK Government has fully committed to providing data in an open and transparent way and is encouraging innovative re-use of public data. OpenUp, from TSO, shows how data can be opened up and re-used to maximise its information value.

Data.gov Next Generation also makes it easier for government agencies to share their public data. Agencies can now upload their data to the FISMA-compliant Data.gov cloud platform, link it in real-time to systems of record, or even federate data from their own sites. Data.gov brings it all together into one virtualized government-wide catalog.

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

Google data visualisation tool - works only with CSV or KML files