10. Open data and FOI laws:
complementary and necessary.
11. Open data and FOI provide a
natural balance between the
proactive and reactive release
of information.
12. FOI enables citizens to request
information in relation to
particular areas of current
public interest, and improve
their sense of civic
engagement and participation.
13. FOI allows civil society and
business to request information
to investigate opportunities for
innovation or to support their
current work.
14. FOI promotes the UK’s position
as an open and transparent
place to do business.
15. FOI provides a mechanism for
access to information held by
government where the
community interested in that
information is too small to
justify its continuing release
and maintenance as open
data.
16. FOI can help public sector
bodies identify information and
data that may have potential
value if published openly.
culture of open // open source // crowd // problems so huge that they need everyone
Complex slide first. Make the audience ask questions and realise how detailed it is but that all data is on this spectrum.
Stress that big/small can be anywhere.
Stress that public/commercial/personal can be anywhere.