London, 6 September 2011

(by Ton Zijlstra)

With public consultations underway in the UK on Open Government Data and the Public Data Corporation, the Open Rights Group is hosting a workshop on October 3rd to gather input for these consultations. The deadline for input on the open data consultation is 27 October.

"We invite data developers, users, civil society groups to discuss the implications. The event will have an open space format, with a half hour intro and breaking up for one hour and reconvening. We want to propose 3 sessions around aspects of the consultations, but obviously participants may have more ideas on the day:

• Privacy, ICO, FOIA, legislation and governance (Caldicott guardians,
• sector transparency boards...)
• Public services, privatisation and involvement of civil society
• PDC, pricing models and the open data ecosystem"

You can register your participation at EventBrite.