Unleashing the potential of open data | Information Age

"The 2012 Open Data White Paper, appositely entitled ‘Unleashing the Potential’, set out the Government’s vision to make access to data ‘simpler, cleaner, and faster’.   The UK is already a world leader in open data and, joining South Korea, Estonia, Israel and New Zealand as members of D5, a global network of the most digitally advanced governments in the world. Government-as-a-platform (GaaP) is the idea of common, shared technology and services that provide a flexible foundation for IT reuse and APIs to enable innovation across government and third parties ..."