Last week the NAO published its Implementing Transparency report. The objectives of transparency are summarised in the report as accountability, service improvement based on user choice and comparative data and the much sought but elusive economic growth from new products and services based on OpenData. The Guardian in an uncharacteristically scathing piece summarised the report. “Read between the lines of its [the NAO] report out today, Implementing Transparency, and you will see a government which has been chucking […]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
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Open Source Geo and Open Geospatial Consortium Standards have been active for over a decade, OpenStreetMap since 2004 and OpenData is the new kid on the block. But something seems to have shifted, it seems that you can barely go for a day in the UK geoworld without stumbling on an event, an article, a vendor or consultant talking about Open something. Why has Open become the badge that everyone wants to flaunt? Not everyone […]
Those of you have been avid followers of my blog will have noticed the paucity of posts for the last couple of months. I have been juggling wrapping up two big client projects (now completed) with some quite difficult family problems (as my cousin said “at our age we are the meat in the sandwich”). Normal geobabbling and ranting service will now resume with some staccato posts on topics that have been on the […]