An online notebook
Hadley Beeman has posted about a great little project idea: …there’s a gap between the government opendata vision and the reality. The datasets are often released full of unintelligible codes, information that the developers outside government (building apps and visualisations) would love to have. This makes sense to me: I’ve seen budget codes, cost centre … Keep reading
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Shane McCracken is a good guy, and when he blogs about something it is worth paying attention. Here’s his view on the Big Society. That is what Big Society is to me. Local people taking control of their local facilities and making them work. The swimming pool as we know it will close. We need to … Keep reading
The latest GovCamp is happening at the end of this month, on 31st July in Edinburgh, and it’s naturally called ScotGovCamp. Learning Pool are delighted to be sponsoring the event. These events are always good value, and it will be great to be at one up in Scotland where there will be a lot of … Keep reading
David Wilcox has been doing a great job documenting the discussions around the Big Society agenda, which according to the website, is an organisation being set up by frustrated citizens for frustrated citizens, to help everyone achieve change in their local area. Our aim is to create a new relationship between Citizens and Government in … Keep reading