The UK government has been announcing that they are opening up (or intend to open up) vast databases of public data for use by the digital industry and other organisations. The prime issue being that the data is in raw form and cannot easily be used by the public. Therefore there is a need for innovative companies to take the raw data or a selection of it and present it in a form that is accessible.
Ignoring privacy, data protection act and security as absolution roadblocks; what are the issues that need to be considered in order for our Government to engage with innovative companies and the wider public through digital products and services.
The focus of this event is on use (and abuse) of information, it is not about voting, ID cards, wisdom of crowds for policy formulation or any other deep political agenda. The theme is aimed at:-
· how to improve the access to information for the public using web technologies
· developing innovation and being able to introduce it into the Government
. should Government endorse use of its raw data and how should it make it available
Should the public have access to the data in order to define what should be visible to outside angencies and what should not. How could this be done.
. if the output of the innovation shows a different metric to Government interruption - should there be controls?
· Should commercial companies be able to sell this data and the analysis and should the government be party to the profits (or even sell access) outside of normal tax's.
. How much of our personal data held by the Government should be available (and to who and on what terms)
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