What would you create with Public Information?
…the Power Of Information taskforce is asking that question; and is prepared to stump up £20,000 to take your idea to the next level! The reasoning behind the competition is to get an understanding of the data and information the government needs to share to move things forward. To get the competition underway they’ve just released some new government datasets; for example, a list of all 22,000 schools.
Their website to harvest ideas (showusabetterway.co.uk) has been up for just over a day and seems to be getting a terrific response, I ran the ideas to date through Wordle to get a flavour of the requests being made, here are the results:
Congratulations to the POI taskforce; it’s a great step forward for the Free Our Data campaign. So if you’ve got ideas, get over there and jot them down. I’ve thrown my hat in the ring with the suggestion of a Road Works API…
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