[open-government] Recent success (or failure) stories of LOCAL open data?

Mon Apr 11 07:17:41 UTC 2011

Hello Marco

There is recently launched DataGM  at  http://datagm.org.uk/ a datastore of public sector data developed in partnership by the 10 Greater Manchester local authorities, Greater Manchester Police, Fire and Rescue and Transport for Greater Manchester, project led by Trafford Council with Futureeverything http://futureeverything.org/ in an advocacy role.

Do please contact me if you have any questions about DataGM.

Regards

Victoria

Project Manager DataGM
Trafford Council

-----Original Message-----
From: open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of M. Fioretti
Sent: 10 April 2011 13:31
To: Chris Taggart
Cc: open-government at lists.okfn.org
Subject: Re: [open-government] Recent success (or failure) stories of LOCAL open data?

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 10:37:26 AM +0000, Chris Taggart (countculture at gmail.com) wrote:

> There's obviously the publication of spending data over £500 by 
> English councils (prob the biggest ever mass publication of local open 
> data ever, the aggregation of these on OpenlyLocal 
> (http://OpenlyLocal.com/councils/spending ), the subsequent matching 
> of these to real-world entities (companies, charities, other councils 
> etc -- 
> http://countculture.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/a-first-look-at-the-counc
> il-spending-data-10bn-1-5m-payments-60000-companies/
> ) algorithmically and by visitors to the site.  Can't tell you how 
> many positive comments we've had from ordinary users and from councils 
> themselves.  Chris

Chris,

thanks for this pointer, will check it in detail tonight. Just one question for now. Are those positive comments there, in the same page as the post, or elsewhere? In the first case I'll find them myself, otherwise pointers are welcome.

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