Maude calls for open data suggestions

The department has said that anybody can make suggestions through the website. The move came after a meeting of the Public Sector Transparency Board, which is encouraging government departments and non-departmental public bodies to release datasets on the site as soon as possible. "We promised a new approach to government – one that puts transparency at the very heart of everything we do," Maude said. "As part of our commitment to transparency this government has already published a series of datasets which have never been available to the public before. But it's not just a one way process: I want people to give their ideas on what datasets they want to see released and not just wait for us to publish." The most requested datasets already identified by the board include the Land Registry, Companies House, the Integrated Business Register, transport data, weather information and Environment Agency data.