The Open Data consultation paper sets out Government’s proposed approach for Transparency and Open Data Strategy, which is aimed at establishing a culture of openness and transparency in public services. We want to hear from everyone – citizens, businesses, public services themselves, and other interest groups – on how we can best embed a culture of openness and transparency in our public services.

• Download 'Making Open Data Real: A Public Consultation'

The proposed approach is fundamentally about creating a ‘pull’ (an enhanced right to data) and a ‘push’ (a presumption of publication). The consultation seeks the public’s views on:

• how we might enhance a ‘right to data’, establishing stronger rights for individuals, businesses and other actors to obtain data from public service providers
• how to set transparency standards that enforce this right to data
• how public service providers might be held to account for delivering open data
• how we might ensure collection and publication of the most useful data
• how we might make the internal workings of government and the public sector more open
• how far there is a role for government to stimulate enterprise and market making in the use of open data.

How to respond

Deadline for responses:
27 October 2011

Online:
www.data.gov.uk/opendataconsultation

Email:
opendataconsultation@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk

Post:

Open Data Consultation
Transparency Team
Efficiency and Reform Group
Cabinet Office
1 Horse Guards Road
London SW1A 2HQ

Visit the Cabinet Office website for further information - www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/making-open-data-real-public-consultation