Latest Business

  • CharityBoost
    A tool to match up charity/voluntary projects with public and private funding.
  • Freesource - Free Done
    Access local free resources that you can use - archives, libraries, services, tools, people, information, days out, legal advice etc
  • Back to work by working together
    People finding skills and other people to help them set up in business and out of poverty.
  • Best of the Best Top Ten
    How the public rates the top ten of everything
  • Learning doesn't stop ( LearningBook.com )
    Gaining the experiences of many lifetimes of learning from the adult community then sharing that information back in to community.
  • Planning environmental improvements for homes and businesses
    The development of a website that allows better planning of home environmental improvements, such as solar panels and wind turbines.
  • Clean Restaurants
    A mash up displaying official Trading Standards inspection scores of eating establishments within the local area.
  • Broadband everywhere
    Many rural areas still do not have true 2Mbps broadband coverage. How about piggybacking community networks/access on public sector infrastructure?
  • Local Business Finder and rater
    You enter your postcode and a Google map displays icons for local businesses with customer ratings.
  • Real-time consumer confidence indicator
    Don't wait for the latest Gallup or media led poll, this desktop application feeds a real-time national barometer.
  • Industry Mapping
    A quick way of finding companies based on their industry type and their geographical location.
  • Small Business? Big Help.
    A website which correlates data in order to help people planning to start a new small business.
  • Reusing Infrastructure
    Making the fibre and other ICT infrastructure that lies dark and unused available for community and citizen projects.
  • Innovate
    A website that provides a one-stop shop for people to access all public sector providers of innovation funding
  • Civil Service Business Code
    Apply objective tests to the burdensome constraints imposed on civil servants who take up jobs in business.
  • Best and Safest Businesses
    Find businesses and information on them, locate where they are placed and a rating how accessible and safe they are.
  • Local Business Minds
    Web GIS based search tool for Offices, combined with local information like events, crime, services, deprevation statistics.
  • Where can I site my wind farm?
    Online mapping tool to help planners and developers determine good and bad locations to site one or more wind turbines.
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About This Site

The Power of Information Taskforce is helping government become more open, transparent and effective through better use of published information.

This competition is asking for your help in developing better ways to publish the vast swathes of non-personal information that the government collects & creates on your behalf

Public data is your data. Tell us what you'd build with it and you could win £20k to develop your idea to the next level.

Latest Ideas

  • Polluter Finder
    Find out about and act on pollution in your area - search by pollutant, name and location.
  • WhoKnowsWho
    A service where anyone can find the immediate connections of MPs and MEPs.
  • Free Car Checks
    Help consumers to avoid buying fraudulent or stolen cars
  • Responcity
    A service to allow ordinary people to find out who is responsible for anything from roads to dental regulation.
  • Public Transport Nodes and Timetables
    Where's my nearest railway station? Where's my nearest bus top? Have I missed the last tube home?

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