A slide from Heather Champ, highlighted by Beth Kanter on the fantastic We Are Media project, the Social Media Starter Kit for Non Profits.

Shh. I didn’t tell you about this, put there’s a preprint of an article destined for a U.S. law journal this fall, arguing that the U.S. government needs to break open its datasets - and perhaps open itself up to comment and crticisim on how that data can be better collected, analysed and distributed.

I emailed the author and suggested he incorporate some of the U.K experience and leadership on the very same topic.