The Government are running a competition to get ideas of how the masses of information that’s available on, well, just about everything (non-personal, naturally) can be better displayed and made available to the public.
There’s a lot more already available than I realised, from NHS Webservices that allows you to find out what services are available where (this doesn’t seem to be entirely open, but is free) to a variety of neighbourhood statistics and details of planning applications and local-council problem reports.
There’s a £20,000 prize fund available to help implement the winning ideas, and it should be interesting to see what people come up with.
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