Simon Dickson has been blogging about online government, politics and WordPress since 2005. Some important people read it.

 
 
Thursday 26 November 2009

LibDem tech chief backs free postcodes

Delighted to see LibDem MP (and client) Lynne Featherstone write the following:

As Chair of the Liberal Democrat Technology Board - and an MP who believes that the internet should be used to strengthen democracy - I want to declare my support for the Free our Data campaign. We need postcodes to be owned by the public - not sold to the public. Postcodes are the basic pre-requisite for allowing services to be developed that support democratic accountability. This is an issue that cuts across parties [...] and so it should, because it's about how the data about us can help us all.

I wonder where she got the idea originally? Can't have been this, surely.

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