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Talk at RE:PUBLICA 2011

By Rufus Pollock On April 15, 2011 · 2 Comments

Yesterday I was at RE:PUBLICA XI to give a talk on Open Government Data in the opening session of the “open” stream. The crammed to over-capacity room was a nice indicator of the growing attention and interest being generated by open data, and especially open governernment data. Slides online here [...]

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Public Sector Transparency Board

By Rufus Pollock On June 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment

As announced on Friday on the UK Government’s data.gov.uk, I am one of the members of the UK Government’s newly formed Public Sector Transparency Board.

From the announcement:

The Public Sector Transparency Board, which was established by the Prime Minister, met yesterday for the first time.

The Board will drive forward the Government’s transparency [...]

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UK Government Plans to Open Up Data

By Rufus Pollock On March 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Yesterday, in a speech on “Building Britain’s Digital Future”, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced wide-ranging plans to open up UK government data. In addition to a general promise to extend the existing commitments to “make public data public” the PM announced:

The opening up of a large and important set of transport data [...]
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Prospect Magazine Article: Mashing the State

By Rufus Pollock On February 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The lead article of Prospect Magazine’s February issue is a piece by by James Crabtree and Tom Chatfield entitled “Mashing the State”. It’s an in-depth look at the recent launch of data.gov.uk and its place in the wider context of government policy in relation to information — as well as information’s relation to [...]

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Research Fellowship on Economics of PSI

By Rufus Pollock On July 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

There’s an interesting 6 month fellowship at OPSI for work on economics of public sector information being funded by ESRC and National Archives. Deadline for applications is 6th August:

Valuing information: an economic analysis of public sector information and its re-use

Length of Fellowship: Six months

Proposed start date: Autumn 2009

Applications to be submitted [...]

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Results of the Trading Funds Review

By Rufus Pollock On April 23, 2009 · 1 Comment

The Government announced last summer a further review of how trading funds supply PSI. The results of this review had been expected with the budget.

However, instead of the results of a review, trading funds were included in the report of the Operational Efficiency Programme in the section on “Asset management and sales” [...]

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New Trading Funds Review Announced

By Rufus Pollock On June 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment

When our report on PSI provision at trading funds was published alongside the budget in March, the Government promised further investigation. They have now commissioned another review this time done by the Shareholder Executive/HMT (full ToR on Shareholder Executive website:

The review, announced as part of Budget 2008, will be conducted by [...]

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“Models of Public Sector Information Provision via Trading Funds” Report Published Today

By Rufus Pollock On March 12, 2008 · 4 Comments

Update: my slides from a presentation at the European Commission in May 2008 are now online

The research report entitled Models of Public Sector Information Provision via Trading Funds was published today to coincide with its mention in the budget (para 3.49). This report was commissioned by HMT and BERR and jointly [...]

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