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I've written much about open access on this blog; but generally that's been about open access to articles in academic journals. Ano...

Wired has an idea : If you're a fan of free data flow into and out of the government, Vivek Kundra seems like an ally. But we can't ...

After the results of the Show Us A Better Way competition - the X-Factor for web services (as I think I dubbed it) - now here’s the letdown....

I always thought that the Ordnance Survey had a rather, er, Olympian view of things that was more suited to the top-down twentieth century t...

The UK is apparently not the only country where there is a fight going on for open access to government information : The Institute for Inf...

Government won't make public data freely available? Simple: just stick it up online .

This really makes my blood boil. After a year of negotiations, academic geographers have conceded defeat in their attempt to find a way to ...

Imagine : flying at rooftop height up the Thames. You dive under Tower Bridge, then twist between the Gherkin and Tower 42 skyscrapers. As t...

Today's Guardian has a fine piece by Charles Arthur and Michael Cross about making data paid for by the UK public freely accessible by...