From:
Mike Pearson
Date:
2009 Jun 18 16:18 NZST
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In the next six months, Sir Tim Berners-Lee will serve in an advisory
capacity to the Minister for the Cabinet Office, and he will work with
Professor Nigel Shadbolt to form a panel of technical and delivery experts
to oversee the rapid implementation of key recommendations, including:
(1) Overseeing the creation of a single online point of access for all
public UK datasets and work with departments to make this part of their
routine operations - with a live Beta site running by the end of the year.
(2) Bringing forward specific proposals to implement and extend to the wider
public sector the public sector information principle, including:
* helping to select and implement common standards for the release of public
data
* helping to select, develop and implement common terms for that data where
necessary
* developing Crown Copyright and 'Crown Commons' licenses and extending
these to the wider public sector
* supporting the exploitation and publication of distributed and
decentralised information assets
* looking at the potential for reform of the information regulatory
framework, working with the ICO and other experts to ensure that the
regulatory regime supports the proactive publication of government
information
(3) Driving the use of the internet to improve government consultation
processes as proposed by the Taskforce and learning from the innovations
already used by DIUS, the Cabinet Office and others.
Other key areas in which Sir Tim Berners-Lee will advise the Government
include :-
(4) Working with the Government to engage with the leading experts
internationally working on public data and standards, and to promote
international liaison and global standards setting an investment in future
international data sharing.
(5) Helping to drive culture change in Whitehall toward an assumption of
total publication for anonymous data using open standards.
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/newsroom/news_releases/2009/090610_web.aspx