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9 February 2012

Access does not equal understanding

10 June 2010 Pete Swabey

What was once a trickle is now a raging river. The open data movement appears to have inspired the political mainstream, and now large quantities of public sector information is available to download over the web, with more on its way.

In May 2010, for example, the UK government published the Combined Online Information System (COINS) database detailing all government expenditure through its data.gov.uk portal.

And while there may be a PR motive behind these moves, they are nevertheless difficult to criticise. If information is power, then this is bringing power to the people.

But the flow of... read more...

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