The Department of Health, Department for Transport, Met Office and Land Registry have been tasked with releasing huge amounts of data for free re-use in web ‘apps’, scientific research and new business products.

This government's growth plan included a slew of announcements on transparency which, the Cabinet Office’s director of transparency Tim Kelsey said in an interview with CSW, “underline how far people have gone right across the piece.” The pledges on data held by the Met Office and Land Registry, he said, “speak clearly of the commitment of those trading funds to maximising the economic growth potential of their data, which does mean giving much more of it away either at lower or at no cost.”

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Last updated 172 days ago by Civil Service World