Mashups to Disseminate Government Information
OpinionWire Articles
Sarah Burnett - Published 11/07/2008
Last week, the British Government made an unprecedented move by releasing a number of previously unavailable data sets together with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for use in composite applications or mashups. The “Show us a Better Way” initiative by the Cabinet Office is to get input from the Web 2.0 savvy public on how Government services can be improved using mashups. This welcome but unusual public consultation includes a competition with a prize money of UKŁ20,000 for seed funding the bes…
