The Cabinet Office have commissioned a report – The Power of Information – from Ed Mayo (chief exec of the National Consumer Council) and Tom Steinberg (the man behind mySociety and PledgeBank) to look into the ways government can benefit from user-generated sites, particularly with a view to creating APIs to allow mash-ups with public sector data (like the Ordnance Survey). Press announcement here. Good to see the that the power of Social Media has penetrated to the heart of … Continue reading Government report: The Power of Information