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The alternative briefing for the new Data Strategy Board Chair

An alternative briefing for the new Chair of the government’s Data Strategy Board

What the Minister said to us about #opendata

Placr goes to meet the Minister at Dept. of Business, Innovation and Skills with Open Rights Group to put the case for reforming the government agencies still engaged in monopoly data trading

What it will cost to free the rest of UK government data (spoiler: £0)

Following the Government’s Autumn Statement open data measures, nothing has been done to change the trading of core reference data at the heart of the open data releases. It seems, however, that there is a way to release all this data at no additional cost.


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