Tell the government what you want from the Public Data Corporation
If who are excited about the prospect of open data, but frustrated by its execution (or just one of those people who complain that data doesn't change anything), the government are inviting comments on what shape the Public Data Corporation should take.
It's a refreshingly simple execution: a WordPress blog with each question as a separate blog post – presumably it cost a lot less than £300,000. But of course the questions are theirs, and they are:
1. Which public sector datasets do you currently make use of?
2. How easy is it to find out what datasets are held by public sector organisations?
4. Which datasets are of most value to you or your organisation? Why?
5. What methods of access to datasets would most benefit you or your organisation?
6. What gets in the way of you or your organisation accessing datasets or data products?
9. From your perspective, what would success look like for the Public Data Corporation?
It's a shame that there isn't any space for more open discussion – and that so many of the questions resemble market research. But still, the more journalists who pile in – the more justifiably we can moan later. So go ahead.
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