Making Open Data Real: A Public Consultation

Date	Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Topic	Governance [6] Civic Participation [7] Public Services Performance [8] Sustainable Development [9] Access to Services [10] Environment [11] Governance & Civic Participation [12] Infrastructure [13]

The Open Data consultation paper sets out Government’s proposed approach for Transparency and Open Data Strategy, which is aimed at establishing a culture of openness and transparency in public services. We want to hear from everyone – citizens, businesses, public services themselves, and other interest groups – on how we can best embed a culture of openness and transparency in our public services.

Download 'Making Open Data Real: A Public Consultation [2]'

The proposed approach is fundamentally about creating a ‘pull’ (an enhanced right to data) and a ‘push’ (a presumption of publication). The consultation seeks the public’s views on:

how we might enhance a ‘right to data’, establishing stronger rights for individuals, businesses and other actors to obtain data from public service providers
how to set transparency standards that enforce this right to data
how public service providers might be held to account for delivering open data
how we might ensure collection and publication of the most useful data
how we might make the internal workings of government and the public sector more open
how far there is a role for government to stimulate enterprise and market making in the use of open data.

How to respond

Deadline for responses:
27 October 2011

Online:
www.data.gov.uk/opendataconsultation [3]

Email:
opendataconsultation@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk [4]

Post:

Open Data Consultation
Transparency Team
Efficiency and Reform Group
Cabinet Office
1 Horse Guards Road
London SW1A 2HQ

Visit the Cabinet Office website for further information - www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/making-open-data-real-public-consultation [5]

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Links:
[1] http://www.yourclimate.org/system/files/news_images/data.jpg
[2] http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/Open-Data-Consultation.pdf
[3] http://www.data.gov.uk/opendataconsultation
[4] http://opendataconsultation@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk
[5] http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/making-open-data-real-public-consultation
[6] http://www.yourclimate.org/topic/governance-civic-participation/governance
[7] http://www.yourclimate.org/topic/governance-civic-participation/civic-participation
[8] http://www.yourclimate.org/topic/governance-civic-participation/public-services-performance
[9] http://www.yourclimate.org/topic/environment/sustainable-development
[10] http://www.yourclimate.org/topic/quality-life/access-services
[11] http://www.yourclimate.org/topic/environment
[12] http://www.yourclimate.org/topic/governance-civic-participation
[13] http://www.yourclimate.org/topic/infrastructure