Tree of Knowledge

A good (read ‘constructive’) critique of the UK Govt’s Power of Information agenda here:

While there is no doubting that Tom Steinberg and Ed Mayo’s original PoI review was a significant and game changing piece of work, both the PoI report and every report since (including much of the current Power of Information blog) has been pretty impenetrable stuff unlikely to influence many beyond the existing edgling geek community - who themselves need no persuasion!

On the face of it (but not being on the inside clearly I could well be wrong), little attention seems to have been paid to spreading the word beyond the geek community as part of a consistent and coordinated change programme in language that would both be understood and appeal to the people who will ultimately make this a reality - the politicians and their policy makers. The business case for opening up public sector data is clear, it just now needs to be put into terms that appeal to the hearts not just the minds of a far wider audience.

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