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Welcome to our new site!

This is a competition about data, about communication and above all about making government more useful.

The government produces masses of data on what is happening around the UK. Infomation on crime, on health, on education. However, this information is often hidden away in obscure publications or odd corners of websites. Data tucked away like this isn't  of use to the ultimate owner of that information YOU.

The Power of Information Taskforce want you to give us your ideas on how best to reuse, represent or combine the information the government holds to make it useful.  To provide you with some ideas we have linked to literally gigabytes of new information here. You have:

• Mapping information from the Ordnance Survey
• Medical information from NHS Choices
• Neighbourhood statistics from the ONS
• Pretty much all Offical Notices (bankruptcy, official appointments, etc) from the London Gazette
• A carbon calculator from Defra

We want your best ideas for how we can use this (or any other)information to make your life better. We would give you some examples, but that would be cheating. Let us know your idea!