On 21 January The Digital Engagement Team in Cabinet Office launched data.gov.uk. As part of the team in Cabinet Office I was delighted and proud to play a small part in this.
All of the data is non-personal – it doesn’t have any personal details of people, there are no personal risks to this release.
Individuals or businesses can create new software tools – we want people to build applications that create economic value – go and create an economy around this.
Andrew Stott, the Director of Digital Engagement for the UK Government has a blog where updates and progress will be posted. On launch date here is what he wrote.
There are 100′s of great journalists and bloggers worldwide that have written eloquently with objective opinion about the site and what they hope will happen in the future, which with the help of Paul Jenkins in COI who supports the site a flavour is captured here at launch.
