17,692,342 reasons why if I was a provincial newspaper chief I wouldn’t be celebrating Cameron’s march on No10
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It was something that I promised to return to and on the day that David Cameron appeared to edge a little near to No10, it seemed like a good opportunity.
Plus, I stumbled across this on Martin Stabe's blog, one of the boys from EveryBlock and his mission to keep opening up government and municipal data for everyone's use.
http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2008/05/open-government-data-and-the-e.html
Which, of course, was exactly the kind of commitment Cameron was making in his recent speech to Tory councillors...
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=44 - or, more specifically: http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.story.page&obj_id=142659&speeches=1 ... and the following lines:
“At the moment, local government bodies must provide the public with information about the services ...