# £20,000 prize for best re-use of public sector information

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/07/14/20000-prize-best-reuse-public-sector-information/
- Published: 2008-07-14T15:28:23+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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The new Power of Information Taskforce is running a competition on the Government’s
behalf, offering a £20,000 prize fund to develop the best ideas submitted for transforming
the use of public information in a way that will improve health, education, justice
or society at large.

To help make working models of these ideas, the [Power of Information Taskforce](http://powerofinformation.wordpress.com)
has for the first time made freely available gigabytes of information for entrants
to play with, reuse, combine, represent or ‘mashup’ to turn it into something even
more practical.

This data (none of it personal of course) consists of:

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* 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

The competition has already attracted over 150 ideas. It closes for entries at the
end of September 2008.

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