Open Knowledge Foundation Blog � Blog Archive � Open government data in the UK, US and further afield: new report

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog � Blog Archive � Open government data in the UK, US and further afield: new report: "Open government data in the UK, US and further afield: new report
June 1st, 2010
We’re extremely proud that data.gov.uk - the UK Government’s open data portal - uses CKAN, OKF’s open source registry of open data. In the months in 2009 that led up to the release of data.gov.uk, OKF worked closely with the Cabinet Office to help them realise their vision of making public data publicly available in an open, reusable way. But our involvement with the UK government didn’t start there. Civil servants - particularly members of the Office for Public Sector Information - have been attending OKF events like OKCon since at least 2005. And we know that Sir Tim Berners Lee - who was brought on as an expert advisor to the Government as they worked up to the data.gov.uk project - was reading the OKF blog prior to his now famous “Raw Data Now!” talk at TED!"