Posted: June 30th, 2008, 10:52pm CEST
It's official. Britain last week put its name to an international commitment to make data produced by government bodies available for free use in the internet economy. This is the first formal statement that the government has come on board the Free Our Data campaign launched by Guardian Technology (and widely derided as impractical) more than two years ago. The commitment to make public sector information free, or charge no more than the marginal cost of maintaining and distributing the extr