I’ve been reading the revised Open Source, Open Standards and ReUse: Government Action Plan – it’s surprising (and heartening) to see this has existed in one form or another since as far back as 2004.
The key changes for this version are:
This all sounds great for the open source community; let’s also hope that increased openness in government means that we’ll be able check the Action Plan is actually being followed!
By the way a great example of open source in action on government data is They Work For You, which cleans up Hansard and makes more accessible – search is powered by Xapian.
