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Government Data Management, Information Management
UK audit confirms progress in open govt agenda
A new report from UK’s National Audit Office (NAO) says that the progress in UK’s open government agenda has been good. It has achieved some noteworthy results; for instance, at the end of last year, the police crime map web site had recorded 47 million visits, and the Department of Education had seen an 84 per cent increase in annual use of comparative school data.
However, the report, named ‘Implementing Transparency’, suggests that more than 80 per cent of visitors to data.gov.uk appear to leave without accessing any data. It also finds that the levels of detail available for different datasets vary greatly.
NAO finds it hard to assess the real economic value of open data initiative and warns the government to have more control on costs and benefits.
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