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owenboswarva.bsky.social
Eircode is Ireland's postcode system, but unlike in the UK the codes identify individual property addresses – so presumably the "Eircode database" means release of the national address data products www.eircode.ie

#techpolicy #datapolicy #opendata #openaddresses
October 20, 2026 at 8:35 AM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
The Eircode database will be available on Ireland's Open Data portal, "removing the current restricted commercial licencing framework" www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Good news, if that means as proper #opendata (not every dataset on data.gov.ie is open-licensed)

#techpolicy #datapolicy #openaddresses
26. The Eircode database will be available on the Open Data portal, removing the current restricted commercial licencing framework. Unlocking this highly accurate database removes structural data barriers, enabling engineers to feed clean geospatial data into AI pipelines for smarter logistics, predictive analytics, and localised LLMs.
October 20, 2026 at 8:31 AM
socialnewsdaily.bsky.social
Reddit ends RSS, plans API shutdown amid data monetization

Get pages and links found faster with. https://www.UltimateIndexing.com/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=news-social%20media&utm_content=social%20media

#RedditAPI #DataPolicy
October 3, 2026 at 2:01 AM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Information Commission succeeds the ICO as UK's data protection regulator www.gov.uk/government/n... + ico.org.uk/about-the-ic...

Huge backlog and the permanent Chief Exec hasn't been selected yet, but otherwise all on track

#FOI #dataprotection #datapolicy
September 30, 2026 at 12:29 PM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Matching STATS19 collision data to a road network: feasibility www.gov.uk/government/s... report from DfT's statistics team

Road Safety Data www.gov.uk/government/s...

DfT's collision data is open … but OS NGD RoadLink isn't

#roadsafety #transportdata #opendata #datapolicy
OS NGD RoadLink was selected for the feasibility study because DfT can access it through the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement, it provides detailed national road geometry and attributes, and it is related to the mapping used in the CRASH system used by many police forces to provide STATS19 data to DfT. In future, the road safety statistics team will agree the appropriate network product and version with the DfT roads geography team, taking account of the networks already used across road statistics, update timing, historic consistency and production support. Because OS NGD is not an open dataset, the Department will confirm with OS which derived attributes, identifiers and aggregate outputs, if any, could be published or shared under licence. This will be explored further as the work progresses.
September 24, 2026 at 7:11 PM
citizenptnewswi.bsky.social
City Manager Moore announces that the 2027 budget won't cover license-plate readers, but plans are in motion to explore a new East Side dog park for 2028!

Learn more here

#FondduLacCityFondduLacCounty #WI #CitizenPortal #DataPolicy #FondDuLacEastSide #CommunityDevelopment #PublicEngagement
City will not fund license-plate readers in 2027; staff to start dog‑park planning for East Side
City Manager Moore said no money for license‑plate readers appears in the 2027 budget and staff will use 2027 to evaluate systems and data policies. Moore also committed to starting public engagement and cross‑department work to assess an East Side dog park and potentially plan for 2028.
citizenportal.ai
September 20, 2026 at 4:04 PM
capitaldigital.com.br.web.brid.gy
DataPolicy e o cenário eleitoral
A DataPolicy, empresa brasileira especializada em dados e informações públicas de qualidade, acabou de lançar o seu boletim Panorama Eleitoral – com a consolidação e...
capitaldigital.com.br
September 17, 2026 at 5:37 PM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
'We can see into the other room': insurers face surge in subsidence claims www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Reminder that the BGS, a public body, has detailed mapping of property subsidence risk but it's only available for £ www.bgs.ac.uk/datasets/geo...

#geospatial #datapolicy not- #opendata
Millions of homes are at risk of subsidence because of the worsening climate crisis, the British Geological Survey has warned. Under its worst-case scenario, 11% of UK homes could be at risk of subsidence by 2070, more than 4.2 million houses. As hotter, drier summers and warmer, wetter winters become more frequent, the ground under houses can shrink and drag down a property’s foundations. Older properties with shallow foundations are more at risk, and those built on clay-rich soils. The most vulnerable areas include London, Essex, Kent and a tranche of land from Oxford up to the Wash on England’s east coast, according to scientists.
September 13, 2026 at 8:04 AM
citizenptnewsva.bsky.social
Grayson County has unveiled a draft policy for data centers that invites public feedback before any formal decisions are made.

Get the details!

#GraysonCounty #VA #CitizenPortal #DataPolicy #PublicComment #PlanningProcess
Grayson County posts draft data-center policy for public review; special-use permit process remains
County staff presented a draft data-center policy for review and said it will be posted online for public comment; the draft would require data centers to go through the planning commission special-use-permit process and subsequent board public hearing.
citizenportal.ai
September 12, 2026 at 5:43 AM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Select committee changes on the order paper for Monday commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/2026-09-14

SITC will become the Science and Technology Committee and will be principally concerned with GO-Science

Other committees to cover DCMS & BIST including the digital bits

#govtech #techpolicy #datapolicy
Standing Orders Etc. (Machinery of Government Changes) Sir Alan Campbell That the following amendments and related provisions be made in respect of Standing Orders: A: Select Committees Related to Government Departments (1) That Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) be amended in the Table in paragraph (2) as follows— (i) leave out items 1, 3, 14 and 19; (ii) insert, in the appropriate place, the following items: "Business, Innovation, Science and Trade" : "Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade" "Digital, Culture, Media and Sport" : "Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport" "Science and Technology": "Government Office for Science" "Women and Equalities": "Office for Equality and Opportunity"
September 12, 2026 at 10:30 AM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
The SITC Committee will become the Science and Technology Committee – and will be principally concerned with GO-Science, now that DSIT is defunct commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/2026-09-10

Seems like a radical descoping of oversight work done by Chi Onwurah MP et al?

#govtech #techpolicy #datapolicy
31. Standing Orders Etc. (Machinery of Government Changes) Sir Alan Campbell That the following amendments and related provisions be made in respect of Standing Orders: A: Select Committees Related to Government Departments (1) That Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments) be amended in the Table in paragraph (2) as follows— (i) leave out items 1, 3, 14 and 19; (ii) insert, in the appropriate place, the following items: "Business, Innovation, Science and Trade" : "Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade" "Digital, Culture, Media and Sport" : "Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport" "Science and Technology": "Government Office for Science" "Women and Equalities": "Office for Equality and Opportunity"
September 10, 2026 at 6:35 PM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
My response (as Datadaptive) to the questions in the UK Government's call for evidence on making it even easier for public bodies to charge for re-use of public sector data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-od...

The call for evidence closes today www.gov.uk/government/c...

#datapolicy #FOI #opendata
There is no way to reconcile the stated objective of making all public sector data "affordable and easy to re‑use" with the plan to increase charging above marginal cost, and indeed the existing widespread practice of charging for high-value datasets is the main barrier to maximising the potential for re-use of public sector data. Charging for re-use and associated terms and restrictions inevitably introduce burdens and friction in the re-use of public sector data, and charging entirely prevents re-use for many use cases – particularly where businesses want to share data directly with customers or combine public data with their own data on the web.
September 8, 2026 at 9:17 AM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Paywalling (more) public sector data is a bad idea, actually www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-od...

New post. The marginal cost limit in the UK's RPSI regulations does not mandate #opendata – but does provide a convenient excuse for underfunding of public data infrastructure

#datapolicy #openpolicy
September 7, 2026 at 9:41 AM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Who pays for the bus timetable in your pocket? www.opendatamanchester.org.uk/who-pays-for... good post by @julianlstar.bsky.social of @opendatamcr.bsky.social

UK Government call for evidence www.gov.uk/government/c...

Data Valuation Framework www.gov.uk/government/p...

#opendata #FOI #datapolicy
The government already knows this The Data Valuation Framework, published in April, says plainly that because data is non-rival, its uses cannot be identified exhaustively, and that methods based on identified uses will therefore understate the value of the data. Its technical annex goes further, and says that the standard appraisal summaries — benefit-cost ratios and net present social value — can be poor summaries of the value of data projects for exactly this reason. The same framework lists the things that might make open access the better option: spillovers, market dynamics, how sensitive users are to being charged, and the distributional effects on end users. That list appears in a footnote. The charging side gets three valuation methodologies, a comparison table, and a menu of mechanisms — subscriptions, usage charges, royalties, equity stakes, levies. One side of the argument has a framework. The other side has a footnote.
September 4, 2026 at 12:08 PM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
The National Data Library Expert Advisory Group has now concluded www.gov.uk/government/g...

Well done everybody

I like the gradient fills in particular www.data.gov.uk

#govtech #opendata #datapolicy
Screenshot from GOV·UK: National Data Library Expert Advisory Group: Terms of Reference This transparency data was withdrawn on 2 September 2026 This page was withdrawn on 2 September 2026. The National Data Library Expert Advisory Group concluded in September 2026. The National Data Library was launched in June 2025 and now sits within the wider work of the Government Chief Data Officer within DCMS, drawing on expert input from external advisers and government Chief Data Officers.
September 3, 2026 at 6:17 AM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
The problem with making public data pay for itself www.mysociety.org/2026/08/27/t... post by @juliacushion.bsky.social of @mysociety.org

UK Government call for evidence www.gov.uk/government/c...

#opendata #FOI #datapolicy #treasurybrain
In our fragmented public data report we recognise that public bodies can already spend considerable time publishing data without seeing much evidence of what happens to it afterwards. Where that data is difficult to find or combine, its potential value isn't realised and the people doing the work have less reason to see publication as worthwhile. Charging offers one answer to this, in that income is easy to demonstrate, but it decreases the overall value and impact of the data. We'd rather see the government get better at making the wider impact of open data visible: who uses it, what they build with it, where it is reused elsewhere in government, and what difference that makes. Better impact tracking would help teams make the case for investing in open data without needing to turn it into a source of income. There's also a longer-term problem with using charging to fund new data services. If a team is encouraged to generate income from its data and does so successfully, that income starts supporting the service. At that point, making the data open means finding the money somewhere else. The Postcode Address File is a longstanding example of how difficult this can be to unwind. Once licensing income becomes part of how a service is funded, opening the data and replacing that income become the same problem.
August 27, 2026 at 8:13 PM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
#DataConnect26 on 6-7 October 2026, a GDS-fronted virtual event for the UK public sector: "Rather than issuing an open call for speakers, the programme has been curated around emerging cross-government priorities …" cddo.blog.gov.uk/2026/08/25/d...

#govtech #datapolicy
August 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM
owenboswarva.bsky.social
Charging for public sector data is likely to cost us more than it raises peterkwells.com/2026/08/21/c... by @peterkwells.com

UK Government call for evidence www.gov.uk/government/c...

#opendata #FOI #datapolicy #treasurybrain
To be clear, the proposed changes would not affect data the government cannot already publish – no, this would not make it possible to sell personal data… – instead it's about charging for things like bus timetables or maps of forests and footpaths. Information the government currently makes available for free. Adding charges will reduce use of public service data, with knock-on effects that make all of our lives a little bit harder. Public sector data is infrastructure. Other services, businesses and decisions are built on top of it. Reducing use of that infrastructure means that we will find it a bit harder to catch the right bus, organisations will find it a bit harder to make decisions that improve the environment, and many other examples.
August 21, 2026 at 3:22 PM
bhavyatta.bsky.social
I hope I’ll get better at sharing my work on social one day. Some day.

Here I’m exploring how eight years later the Cambridge Analytica model scaled successfully. Critical thinking is more important than ever!

#policyethos #backlinks #datapolicy

open.substack.com/pub/apopulat...
Who is Sovereign When Ungoverned Information Architecture Decides Whose Reality Lives
On backlinks, propaganda, and how Cambridge Analytica proved the model.
open.substack.com
April 14, 2026 at 12:46 AM
sander.vanzoest.com
Strava is now also locking up their users data. It is a trend. They grow because people share their data and then the company locks up access to 3rd parties that a user may want to use on their data.

#strava #openapi #datapolicy
Strava's Big Changes Aim To Kill Off Apps
 Yesterday Strava sent out an e-mail to users, outlining a change that’s occurring almost immediately, regarding 3rd party apps …
www.dcrainmaker.com
November 20, 2024 at 12:58 AM
koreatechdesk.bsky.social
Korea’s AI boom is hitting a wall — strict data laws built before the AI era are slowing down model development 📉🤖

Why does this matter right now? 🤔

🔗 Full breakdown here:
koreatechdesk.com/data-protect...
#KoreanStartups #AI #DataPolicy #Innovation #TechNews #KoreaTech
Data Protection VS AI Innovation: Korea’s Regulatory Dilemma - KoreaTechDesk | Korean Startup and Technology News
Korea's AI industry stands at a crossroads as strict data protection laws clash with innovation demands, testing how far regulation can coexist with progress.
koreatechdesk.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
istedman.bsky.social
Conference #3 in our series is happening in March. The website and registration page are here:

Agenda and speakers will be posted very soon!

#AI #EmergingTechnologies #blockchain #tech #innovation #HumanRights #BigData #DataPolicy
June 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
raquelrguima.bsky.social
Important statement from APDU on public data policy. The way data is handled affects us all.

#PublicData #DataPolicy
APDU Statement on Public Data – Association of Public Data Users
apdu.org
February 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
openup.org.za
OpenUp was at the Global Data Festival & Kenya Space Expo in Nairobi! Adam Oxford led a workshop on getting climate & health data into policy, with CEO Gabriella Razzano joining remotely. 🌍

Learn more about Africa CAN: buff.ly/DjGNujA

#civictech #africa #techforgood #datapolicy #climatehealth
June 9, 2026 at 8:45 AM