Wordpress - countculture.wordpress.com - countculture
General Information:
Latest News:
OpenlyLocal (finally) gets its own blog 10 May 2012 | 10:30 pm
Quick note to say that OpenlyLocal now has its own blog at blog.openlylocal.com. All the old posts and comments have been copied over there too. I’ll still be posting on general opendata issues here,...
How to help build the UK’s open planning database: writing scrapers 29 Mar 2012 | 08:48 pm
This post is by Andrew Speakman, who’s coordinating OpenlyLocal’s planning application work. As Chris wrote in his last post announcing OpenlyLocal’s progress in building an open database of planning...
Planning Alerts: first fruits 23 Mar 2012 | 10:09 pm
Well, that took a little longer than planned… [I won't go into the details, but suffice to say our internal deadline got squeezed between the combination of a fast-growing website, the usual issues o...
An open letter to Vince Cable 8 Mar 2012 | 07:00 am
Dear Mr Cable I read with interest yesterday your letter to the Prime Minister about some of the issues facing the UK in the future, and in particular the need for a vision and for a connected approa...
Wanted: Ruby programmer who loves to work with open data 12 Nov 2011 | 02:21 am
As you may have read from our previous post, OpenlyLocal is taking over PlanningAlerts.com to enable this valuable service not just to continue, but also develop into a much richer community resource....
How The Open Data Community Died: My Open Govt Data Camp keynote 26 Oct 2011 | 03:22 am
Here are my slides from my keynote at the 2011 Open Government Data Camp in Warsaw last week, entitled “How The Open Data Community Died: A Warning From The Future”. The presentation is CC-SA-BY licen...
The economics of open data & the big society 14 Oct 2011 | 05:39 am
Yesterday I received an email from a Cabinet Office civil servant in preparation for a workshop tomorrow about the Open Data in Growth Review, and in it I was asked to provide: an estimation of the ...
PlanningAlerts is dead, long-live PlanningAlerts 11 Oct 2011 | 02:33 am
One of the first and best examples of how data could make a difference to ordinary people’s lives was the inspirational PlanningAlerts.com, built by Richard Pope, Mikel Maron, Sam Smith, Duncan Parkes...
The Public Data Corporation vs Good Governance 10 Oct 2011 | 11:53 pm
As I feared back when it was first announced, the proposed UK Public Data Corporation has got nothing to do with open data, and everything to do with protecting the interests of a few civil servants, ...
My response to the UK Open Data consultation 6 Oct 2011 | 11:35 pm
Today, I submitted my response to the UK Cabinet Office’s Open Data Consultation,”Making Open Data Real”, and this is it. I have been dealing at the sharp end of open data for a couple of years now,...
