Open data worth £6 billion to the UK economy!
In preparation for the forth coming UK Parliamentary elections the UK Conservative Party has published a document titled: Conservative Technology Manifesto (11 pages).
The manifesto refers to the liberalisation of public sector information to stimulate the economy should they become the next UK Government. The manifesto states:
“1.2 CREATING NEW JOBS AND CUTTING COSTS: OPEN DATA
New technologies are opening up new opportunities for businesses and social entrepreneurs to create billions of pounds of economic value by building innovative applications and services that make use of government data. The Conservative Party will unleash this innovation by opening up government data and publishing government datasets in full and online. Dr Rufus Pollock of Cambridge University, the lead author of the HM Treasury report on the economic value of open data, has produced a new calculation that our plans to set government data free will create an estimated £6 billion in additional value for the UK.
We will legislate to enforce the freedom of government data. We will create a powerful new Right to Government Data, enabling the public to request – and receive – government datasets. This will ensure that the most important government datasets are released – providing a multi-billion pound boost to the UK economy. President Obama’s administration has already implemented a ‘Right to Data’ policy.
We will unleash an open data revolution – going far further than the Labour Government’s limited reforms – by setting free a wide range of government datasets, including the monthly online publication of local crime data on a street-by-street basis, education and health performance data and detailed information about all of DFID’s projects and spending programmes including the results of impact evaluations. In addition, we will publish online the energy consumption of all buildings in Whitehall.”
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