Web inventor to help Downing Street open up government data
Web inventor to help Downing Street open up government data Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Charles Arthur
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 10 June 2009 14.07 BST
"So that government information is accessible and useful for the widest possible group of people, I have asked Sir Tim Berners-Lee who led the creation of the world wide web, to help us drive the opening up of access to Government data in the web over the coming month," the Prime Minister said in a statement about electoral and Parliamentary reform.
Sir Tim has been an eager proponent of better access to all forms of government and other data. In a talk to the TED conference in March, shown below, he said: "What you find if you deal with people in government departments is that they hug their database, hold it really close, so that they can build a beautiful website to present it.
"I would like to suggest: sure, make a beautiful website, but first, give us – all of us – the unadulterated data. We have to ask for raw data now."
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