Wednesday 13 August 2008

Councils refuse to re-use data

via Technology Guardian 24 July

Over half the 426 local authorities surveyed in England and Wales are not making their data available for public re-use, contrary to central government policy.

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Hazel's comment:
How the "unprintable expletive deleted" can we expect to develop local labour market information when in half the areas basic data to work with is not available. And the sanction? Unknown to me but I expect it will be a slap on the wrist and a "do better next year lecture".

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