Cameron Commits to Freeing Data and Mashups

At a speech at Imperial College London Conservative Leader David Cameron said a Conservative government would find the most useful information in 20 different areas and publish it for public use.

“This information will be published proactively and regularly – and in a standardised format so that it can be ‘mashed up’ and interacted with,” he said.

“What’s more, because there is no complete list that can tell us exactly what data the government collects, we will create a new ‘right to data’ so that further datasets can be requested by the public.”

“If we are serious about helping people exert more power over the state, we need to give them the information to do it. And as part of that process, we will review the role of the Information Commissioner to make sure that it is designed to maximise political accountability in our country,”  he said.