I remember when that came out, it was really ahead of its time! Whatever they did with Gov.UK in the beginning should be the model for how government does online services.
The story behind it is nuts, too. Apparently Tim Berners-Lee (he who invented the Web) was at some kind of government reception and Gordon Brown asked him something like, ‘What could the government do to make better use of the web?’. Berners-Lee said, ‘Well, you could make all government data publicly available,’ expecting Brown to go, ‘Ha-ha, no,’ but he just went, ‘Yep, great idea’, and then did it.
The UK has an open data standard for government data (thanks to Gordon Brown!). I could be wrong, but I think they’ll use that (if not, they should!).
I remember when that came out, it was really ahead of its time! Whatever they did with Gov.UK in the beginning should be the model for how government does online services.
The story behind it is nuts, too. Apparently Tim Berners-Lee (he who invented the Web) was at some kind of government reception and Gordon Brown asked him something like, ‘What could the government do to make better use of the web?’. Berners-Lee said, ‘Well, you could make all government data publicly available,’ expecting Brown to go, ‘Ha-ha, no,’ but he just went, ‘Yep, great idea’, and then did it.
Damn I miss Brown, it’s sad to think what we could have had if he’d won that election.