Downing Street brings in Sir Tim - do they know what they've let themselves in for....

Wednesday, June 10. 2009

Downing Street brings in Sir Tim - do they know what they've let themselves in for....

On Twitter today came the message from @DowningStreet

PM says Sir Tim Berners-Lee will help drive opening of access to Gov data on the web over coming months

I'm not sure they know what they've done. The video above is Sir Tim at TED earlier this year. It has him about halfway through exhorting all of us to stand on our feet and bellow "Raw Data Now"! ""Raw Data Now"! ""Raw Data Now"!*

When do we want it?

NOW!!!!

Interesting times......

(*apologies, to early readers of this post, I recalled it as "Free Our Data"! before being put right - shows how good my memory is, and I was there....)

Update - Grauniad picks up the story over here. Tsk, these MSM boyos - always behind the pace

Posted by Alan Patrick in DRM / IP at 13:10 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Actually, TBL's exhortation is "Raw Data Now" and it's in the middle of the video! He mentions that this has/is difficult to acheive but doesn't actually list any of the reasons while at the same time using personal details as an example - interesting!

#1 James Cutler (Homepage) on 2009-06-10 14:11 (Reply)

OOops - have corrected. And I was there.....

#earlymentalconfusion'rUs

#2 alan p on 2009-06-10 14:19 (Reply)

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