Author Archives: Chris Taggart

The open spending data that isn’t

The following guest post is from Chris Taggart of OpenlyLocal, who advises the Where Does My Money Go? project on local spending data, and is a member of the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Working Group on Open Government Data. This is a cross-post — Chris’ original post here.

When the coalition announced that councils would have to [...]

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Opening up government finances

The following guest post is from Chris Taggart of OpenlyLocal, who advises the Where Does My Money Go? project on local spending data, and is a member of the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Working Group on Open Government Data.

With a string of announcements this week and the COINS database (the UK’s biggest source of information on [...]

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