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Opening up council accounts… and open procurement
Since OpenlyLocal started pulling in council spending data, it’s niggled at me that it’s only half the story. Yes, as more and more data is published you’re beginning to get a much clearer idea of...
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Open data, fraud… and some worrying advice
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmcl/ One of the most commonly quoted concerns about publishing public data on the web is the potential for fraud – and certainly the internet has opened up all...
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Not the way to build a Big Society: part1 NESTA
I took a very frustrating phone call earlier today from NESTA, an organisation I’ve not had any dealings with it before, and don’t actually have a view about it, or at least didn’t. It followed from an...
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Videoing council meetings revisited: the limits of openness in a transparent...
A couple of months ago, I blogged about the ridiculous situation of a local councillor being hauled up in front of the council’s standards committee for posting a council webcast onto YouTube, and...
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Videoing council meetings redux: progress on two fronts
Tonight, hyperlocal bloggers (and in fact any ordinary members of the public) got two great boosts in their access to council meetings, and their ability to report on them. Windsor & Maidenhead...
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A first look at the council spending data: £10bn, 1.5m payments, 60,000...
Like buses, you wait ages for local councils to publish their spending data, then a whole load come at once… and consequently OpenlyLocal has been importing the data pretty much non-stop for the past...
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PlanningAlerts is dead, long-live PlanningAlerts
One of the first and best examples of how data could make a difference to ordinary people’s lives was the inspirational PlanningAlerts.com, built by Richard Pope, Mikel Maron, Sam Smith, Duncan...
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Wanted: Ruby programmer who loves to work with open data
As you may have read from our previous post, OpenlyLocal is taking over PlanningAlerts.com to enable this valuable service not just to continue, but also develop into a much richer community resource....
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Planning Alerts: first fruits
Well, that took a little longer than planned… [I won't go into the details, but suffice to say our internal deadline got squeezed between the combination of a fast-growing website, the usual issues of...
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How to help build the UK’s open planning database: writing scrapers
This post is by Andrew Speakman, who’s coordinating OpenlyLocal’s planning application work. As Chris wrote in his last post announcing OpenlyLocal’s progress in building an open database of planning...
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