uk government

Glyn Moody points us to the news that the UK government is setting up a "Public Data Corporation" with the charge of working with various government agencies and pulling together data and freeing it up for the public:

The Corporation will, for the first time, bring together Government bodies and data into one organisation and provide an unprecedented level of eas

Under the UK government's Digital Economy Bill copyright crackdown, universities, libraries and small businesses providing open Wi-Fi services would face the same penalties for copyright infringement as individual subscribers.

This measure would make it impossible for small businesses and the like to offer open Wi-Fi access.

Open Enterprise: "As I've noted many a time, the UK government has been one of the most backward when it comes to adopting open source solutions."

ComputerworldUK: "Recently I reported that with the move of Martin Bellamy from the NHS Microsft IT project to the Cabinet Office to 'run' G-Cloud.

It looked ominously like a step towards a fully outsourced MS Azure project."