Making Future Work

Taken from a page on www.tisonline.net/, after exploring the site for datasets. They're really expensive. 

Another good find from the site is a discussion from council worker's about how long it takes to prepare and submit an NFI dataset, here.

"The government is consulting on a new Code of Recommended Practice for local authorities on the publication of data. The proposed Code is concerned with making data generated by authorities available and accessible to the public. It is intended to set out the requirement to publish data and minimum expectations and considerations.

The Code proposes the minimum datasets that should be released, openly and for reuse, by local authorities are:

expenditure over £500, (including costs, supplier and transaction information);

grants and payments under contract to the voluntary community and social enterprise sector;

names, budgets and responsibilities of staff paid over £58,200 - equivalent to the lowest senior civil service pay band;

an organisational chart;

councillor allowances and expenses;

copies of contracts and tenders to businesses and to the voluntary community and social enterprise sector;

policies, performance, audits and key indicators on the authorities' fiscal and financial position;

data of democratic running of the local authority including the constitution, election results, committee minutes, decision making processes and records of decisions.

NOTABILIA

James Boardwell's research into Dashboards (Things That Tell Us Things About Things).

Directgov's Apps List... Just some of the things you can do with governement data. 

Tom Steinberg. "Even more remarkable than the fact that they are keen to talk about it, is the fact that they are keen to change policy to deliver more open data – a commodity who's impacts are by definition complex and unpredictable. This is not the simple politics of supplying an extra hospital bed or locking up another criminal – this is about taking a calculated bet that a series of seemingly esoteric measures will have big impacts, driven mainly by the remarkable characteristics of the Internet."