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Open supplier data will sustain social housing
The Guardian
George Osborne's reference to the "piling costs" of environmental regulation in 2011 set a tone that did little to help the cause of sustainability in business, yet Osborne is now part of a government that is increasingly recognising the value of open ...

G8 leaders agree to 7-point plan on Syria as summit wraps
CBC.ca
"I applaud the UK Presidency's focus on tax, trade and transparency – priorities that find great reciprocity with our government's commitment to Canadians," said Harper. "Canada, like the UK, believes that these priorities are critical to growth ...
G8 summit - day two: Politics live blogThe Guardian

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G8 leaders agree to 7-point plan on Syria as summit wraps
CBC.ca
"I applaud the UK Presidency's focus on tax, trade and transparency – priorities that find great reciprocity with our government's commitment to Canadians," said Harper. "Canada, like the UK, believes that these priorities are critical to growth ...

G8 summit: live updates
Telegraph.co.uk
Thank you for following and find all the latest reaction to the G8 summit at telegraph.co.uk/g8. 18.00 The G8 leaders today promised to open up more government data to more scrutiny than ever before as they signed an Open Data Charter for the first time.
G8 leaders agree to 7-point plan on Syria as summit wrapsCBC.ca
Statement by President Barroso at the G8 Pre-Summit press conferenceEU News

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G8 Leaders Sign Open Data Charter
TechWeekEurope UK
The G8 leaders have signed an Open Data Charter at their summit in Northern Ireland, and the UK government has hailed it as “a huge step forward” in opening up the world's information. By signing the charter, the leaders of the world's top eight ...
G8 Open Data Charter: why it mattersTelegraph.co.uk
Minister Clement Launches Next Generation Open Data PortalWall Street Journal (press release)

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G8 Open Data Charter: why it matters
Telegraph.co.uk
In recent years we have seen a gathering momentum behind open government data – a global movement to open up public, non-personal data that the public sector collects, generates and holds in our name. We have seen how hard ... and usability. Even in ...
G8 Leaders Sign Open Data CharterTechWeekEurope UK
Federal open data portal revamp aims to encourage appsCBC.ca
Minister Clement Launches Next Generation Open Data PortalMarketWatch (press release)

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G8 leaders agree on 7-point plan on Syria as summit wraps
CBC.ca
Harper also announced that Canada formally adopted an Open Data Charter with the other G8 leaders. It commits Canada to proactively release more information through an online registry of government data holdings, and the charter commits the countries ...
Statement by President Barroso at the G8 Pre-Summit press conferenceEU News

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UK's Cameron lists new pledges on Syria as G8 wraps
CBC.ca
Harper also announced that Canada formally adopted an Open Data Charter with the other G8 leaders. It commits Canada to proactively release more information through an online registry of government data holdings, and the charter commits the countries ...
Statement by President Barroso at the G8 Pre-Summit press conferenceEU News

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Gartner: Worldwide government IT spending flat in 2013
PublicTechnology.net
Despite the UK government's open data initiatives, the worldwide trend doesn't quite follow - the Gartner survey indicated that it was not yet a high priority, though it's gaining momentum. “Government organisations have increased big data spending for ...

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Aid transparency is central to development work
The Guardian
The MCC is currently the ranked at 9 on aid transparency index (pdf), far ahead of other US government agencies on the list. The corporation's small size, budget of under $1bn (pdf) – and aim of delivering poverty reduction through economic growth, has ...

Next step for the transparency agenda
Local Government Chronicle
There has been publication of a whole range of data sets on data.gov.uk, performance data and crime maps. For local government there has been spending data, salaries and now contracts. It is not clear, say some, what this publication is ... A recent ...

Hashtag politics: seven top tips for civil servants using social media
The Guardian
Stephen Jeffares, @srjeffares, is Roberts research fellow at Birmingham university's Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham. • Want your say? Email us at public.leaders@guardian.co.uk. To get our articles on policy and ...

Studies Fail to Back Medtronic Spine Product
Wall Street Journal- India
"We have a health-care system that's built on evidence that's incomplete and not missing at random," said Harlan Krumholz, the Yale cardiologist who devised the Yale Open Data Access Project, or Yoda, and forged the Medtronic deal. Dr. Krumholz praised ...

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Statement by President Barroso at the G8 Pre-Summit press conference
EU News
Citizens, in particular in resource-rich countries, have a right to get a better idea of what happens to their national wealth, to the revenues from their oil resources and forests, to know which amounts are paid by companies to governments – and so ...

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Why we should welcome a G8 Open Data Charter
Telegraph.co.uk
Open data can help us drive the next stage of this revolution, and enable millions to have their voices heard – and save precious government funds. Martin Tisné is Director of Policy at Omidyar Network in the UK, the philanthropic investment firm ...

Further open data releases follow Shakespeare Review
PublicTechnology.net
It's hoped that by opening up information on UK organisations and corporations will enable the development of a raft of technologies that give citizens and government greater insight into corporate governance. Land Registry - historical Price Paid Data ...
Commission to release data sets on charities' spendingCivil Society Media

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Commission to release data sets on charities' spending
Civil Society Media
The data release is part of the government's wider open data policy and Francis Maude, Cabinet Office minister, who made the announcement last week said: “The data commitments we are announcing today will strengthen the hand of citizens in holding ...

UK government opens up more public data to drive 'Information Economy'
ComputerworldUK
The government first unveiled its open data initiative in November 2011, claiming that the move would aid economic growth, transport and healthcare. The latest news was announced at the G8 Innovation Conference in London on Friday as part of the ...

Tanzania: Trade, Tax Transparency to Dominate Pre-G8 Summit
AllAfrica.com
It also supports open data, saying it puts information in the public domain; it drives innovation and economic growth, provides a basis for better policies and decisions and increases accountability of governments to their citizens. As G8 president ...

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Report: UK spies hacked foreign diplomats
globalnews.ca
The Guardian cites more than half a dozen internal government documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden as the basis for its reporting on GCHQ's intelligence operations, which it says involved, among other things, hacking into the ...

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