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A couple of weeks ago, I spent a Monday afternoon at a stakeholder event hosted by the Cabinet Office’s Transparency team on their Making Open Data Real consultation, with an interesting crowd of developers and users of public data products. We spent three hours pondering our thoughts on how greater use of open data might…

I’m trying to work out why I’m uneasy about the recent announcement of the transparency revolution sweeping Whitehall. It’s not as if I’m a civil servant any more with a vested interest to conceal. As a developer, and an SME hoping to win public sector work, and a taxpayer, you’d think I’d be cock-a-hoop that…

Photo credit: childofwar This time last year, I predicted 2009 would be the year of Less – fewer technology experiments, tighter resources, and involving a wider network of people in our projects. It didn’t quite turn out that way… but maybe I was just ahead of my time: 2010 is shaping up to be altogether…