Government ‘Needs To Embrace Open Data Faster’

"The UK government has been told it should ramp up its open data strategy if it wants to reap the economic and social benefits it can provide. The Shakespeare Review, led by YouGov CEO Stephan Shakespeare, has made a number of recommendations, which the Cabinet Office has welcomed. Last year, the government’s open data initiative was slammed by the Commons Public Accounts Committee for sloppily presenting information to the public and now it has been told it isn’t acting fast enough to get data out in the first place. One recommendation is for every government department to determine what their most important dataset is and release it in readable formats for free, whilst making a commitment to maintain and update that dataset ..."