Not even an excuse about being too busy to blog …. either a lack of motivation, nothing happening to blog about or laziness ! Actually I’ll stick with the ‘busyness’ excuse !
Not sure if this will be of interest to some people or if you already know about these, but there are people who like to gather data, mop up information, see what information is held or (like me) are keen to see what those teccie people much cleverer than me can do when presented with files of public data!
Some of these may help you in work with communities, some are a little eclectic … and other just tell you fascinating information about your locality.
The Power of Information Task Force was established by Cabinet Office Minister Tom Watson MP in March 2008 to explore the social and economic gains that could be achieved from better use of the data that government holds, as well as setting out how much further the government has to go to capitalise on these.
The POI blog gives background to the project and a list of the public data already available. They have also just launched a competition to find out innovative ideas of using public data in “mash-ups” such as an idea to find a local post box or donating free time.
To see examples of some of the sites already developed have a look at the POI Wiki. Keep up to date with what your MP is saying through They Work For You visit the best information site for young people’s advice or see the active government consultations open for responses. Even the vast Sheffield Forum gets a mention (these are the useful flood advice pages).
Some may be more useful than others ….. but a noticeable lack of anything with a focus on the third sector, surely someone has a bright spark of an idea for the competition ? What are your ideas, what would it be ?
For anyone reading this from a CVS or organisation interested in attending the NAVCA annual conference, this year there is a blog and Crowdvine networking site for the event. If you are coming along please leave a comment or in the Open Space area tell us what you’d like to talk about. If nothing else the event and the blog will be a good place to record the after dinner “networking”.
(By the way David – Surely Kevin is now a “blogging boss“)
Filed under: Infrastructure, Voluntary Sector, Web 2.0, navca, nptech, nptechuk | Tagged: blogging bosses, mashup, navca, POI, power of information
