How the UK government uses open data | Computerworld
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We look at the UK government's open data strategy
Open data has become a growing focus for governments around the world, and the UK is no exception. The country now ranks joint-first with Canada in the World Wide Web Foundation's global rankings for public access to official data, but the strategy is not without its critics. The foundations of the UK's open data infrastructure were laid by the last Labour regime. In 2010, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's administration unveiled the Open Government License, a free and perpetual copyright licence for works published by the government, and the data.gov.uk repository of public sector datasets. World
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