This interview, conducted by Helen Crane, originally appeared on the Guardian’s Public Leaders Network. You joined the Cabinet Office as director of open data and transparency in January. What will be your biggest challenge? Promoting open data on the international stage. The UK is president of the G8 summit this year, and forming a collective,
Data has been variously described as the new oil or the new raw material of the 21st century. Like other raw materials, its value is not always immediately evident – specialist tools and effort are required to locate, extract and refine data before it yields actionable information. And, unlike natural raw materials, data is not
This guest blog post was originally posted on the Guardian’s Transparency Hub, which is hosting a Live Q&A with Jeremy Heywood at 12-1pm GMT on 4 December 2012 At the Next Web conference in Amsterdam, Hilary Mason, chief scientist at Bitly, the URL redirection service, said open data was just a buzzword. The launch of