Unlocking innovation
Working with UK Public Sector information and data
Advised by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt and others, government is opening up data for reuse. This site seeks to give a way into the wealth of government data and is under constant development. We want to work with you to make it better.
We’re very aware that there are more people like you outside of government who have the skills and abilities to make wonderful things out of public data. These are our first steps in building a collaborative relationship with you.
Latest news:
- Read about our latest site changes
- information about the Local Data Panel
- applications in the news
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Most Recent Apps
View all appsPolice API
The Police API allows you to retrieve information about neighbourhood areas in all 43 English & Welsh police forces. All forces are required to keep this data accurate...
By Leon Bayliss
15/03/2010 - 12:00
SaferMK
This is a crime reduction application that has two key functions: 1. simple-to-use interface, genuine web GIS interactive map (unlike national crimemap) for public to view...
By marcus gibbon
04/03/2010 - 11:49
EnAKTing UK Public Sector Information Data Mashup
Map application that using OpenSpace and http://backlinks.psi.enakting.org show various sources of information for a given region. The data it is displayed in a table where...
By Manuel Salvadores
04/03/2010 - 09:42
Most Recent Ideas
View all ideasMobile Apps used to distribute info instead of Govt Paper Leaflets
The government currently creates millions of leaflets per year at huge cost as well as...
By Robin Jewsbury
14/03/2010
Free Access to .gov.uk sites via mobile networks
Negotiate deals with UK phone networks to allow free access to any .gov.uk website from...
By Carl Bembridge
12/03/2010
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All posts26/02/2010 - 09:24
Applications in the news
You may have noted some of the new applications listed on the site, a number of which have been in the news lately. Of particular note is the ASBOrometer which is a mobile...
26/02/2010 - 09:02
Site changes
Blog design We are continuing to enhance the site design of data.gov.uk and make improvements to the site’s usability. In particular you should notice a difference to the...
26/02/2010 - 08:40
Local Data Panel
Our blog so far has been about the significant drive to open up national public data and reference datasets on data.gov.uk. As well as this, lots of work is also underway to...
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