New briefing available on open data and transparency
Wednesday 4th August 2010
Socitm Insight’s latest briefing covers the Government’s drive for open data publishing. This includes the requirement on councils to publish, by January, all spending and contracts above £500.
Open data and transparency: no turning back fills in the political background to this development and looks at potential benefits for the public and for the performance of public sector organisations. The briefing makes suggestions about how councils should approach a development that it suggests could be as disruptive to traditional public sector ways of doing things as the internet has been for media businesses.
The briefing is available to view and download for employees of organisations that subscribe to Socitm Insight. This requires registration on this site so that you can log in. Go to the 'register' button (see panel in left hand margin) and when you get to the registration page you will be able to use a look up facility to see if your organisation is a subscriber. If they are, you will be able to access Socitm Insight publications when logged in.
Open data is one of the topics on the agenda for Socitm 2010.
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