A right to data?

Interesting article at Conservative Home, suggesting that an incoming Conservative government would introduce a right to government data - forcing the bureaucratic machine to publish datasets proactively.

I'll believe it when I see it and there are many caveats, but it's a nice thought all the same.

Comments

[Jack Hughes]

Is this the same Conservative Party that promises to deliver electric power over the internet ?

[Andy Scrase]

Data, adjusted or not, metadata, code, methodologies?

Oh dear, I fear we have been here before.

[Cumbrian Lad]

I thought that was the whole point of data.gov.uk which Tim Berners Lee set up? Looking at that website though, it looks as if it's turning into a 'how to make the data we let you have seem sexy' rather than a 'all the data's yours dear public'.

[BrianSJ]

Well, good things have happened with Ordnance Survey data since Tim Berners Lee spoke to the current lot.

[Keith]

I've heard too many Tory Party "promises" before.

Then we got the 1988 and 1998 Firearms acts as thanks for believing them.

With friends of liberty like the Tories, we don't need enemies.