Berners-Lee Calls For Government Data Transparency

eldavojohn writes "Two months ago, Tim Berners-Lee unveiled a UK Government data project with the goal to make government data more useful for everyone. Today he is calling on the rest of the world's governments to become more transparent with their nonsensitive data. After only a few months, his project boasts around forty applications for using government data (screenshot example here). The BBC article notes the interesting uses of public data in India and Brazil that are disappointingly lacking in other countries — even the United States. Hopefully the US's data.gov will evolve to hosting apps instead of just data."

Re:Yeah yeah, he's a smart dude

[Rogerborg]

Its like we're all enjoying transporting drunken cheerleaders across State lines in our fancy pants flying cars, but they're still using the same old steam engine that TBL designed under the hood.

(Psst... you're slipping)

Asking the U.K. Government For Transparency

[Anonymous Coward]

is analogous to asking for banking reform in the United States of Amerika.

Yours In Perm,
K. Trout