Pezholio

As a lot of you probably know, I’m a big fan of open data, as well as driving innovation and making it easier to share information, it’s also a lot of fun. Now, councils are pretty slow in picking this stuff up, for all sorts of reasons (lack of knowledge / interest, lack of technical [...]

With the recent publication of the Digital Britain report and Gordon Brown calling on Tim Berners-Lee to help open up access to government data, there’s been a lot of talk about public organisations opening up data. Most of this has focused around APIs and linked data (something I’m very passionate about already), but there’s much [...]

Just a quick brain dump here, arising from a discussion that I had at the ‘unpanel’ at Localgovcamp. The online community in our council area is getting larger and more vocal, with blogs, pressure groups and other communities cropping up. Often, there are things said that attack the council. In the ‘olden days’ (when attacks [...]

After much, uhming, ahing and “what are the roads like”ing I finally dragged myself out of the house and down the snowy roads of east Birmingham, the roads were fine until I got out of Solihull, but that’s another story. I arrived at the venue (The Blues ground, which would horrify my Villa-supporting in-laws) expecting [...]