SpotlightOnSpend reacts to open criticism

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9 February 2012

2 July 2010 Pete Swabey

After a couple of years in the sun, the outright optimism of the open data movement is beginning to give way to healthy scepticism and lively debate.

Today, for example, an influential blogger on the topic of open data in local government posted a highly-critical piece about SpotlightOnSpend, a commercially-run site through which councils can publish their spending data. You can read his post here.

The way in which the site publishes spending data, CountCulture points out, does not comply with the government’s draft open data guidelines, which are modeled on principles generally accepted by... read more...

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