Submissions short listed!
Show Us a Better Way – Short List published
London: 6 November 2008
The UK Cabinet Office initiative – Show Us a Better Way has published the short list of submissions to the Competition. The final outcome will be announced on the BBC's iPM news programme on Radio 4 on 8 November 2008.
The short list contains three categories:
Ideas where we hope to create a fully working tool
- UK Cycling
- Can I recycle it?
- Catchment Areas
- Location of Postboxes (in rural and residential areas)
- Loofinder
Ideas where we will develop the idea further
- Road Work API
- Oldie Net
- Free Legal Web
- Allotment Manager
- Where does my money go?
Prototypes we will be funding to be developed further
- UK Schools Map
- School Guru
- Where's the path
- Wreck Map
The announcement thanks the UK Guardian Newspaper and the Free Our Data campaign for the help given in raising the profile through wider public publicity.
The UK Guardian newspaper published an article on 6 November 2008 titled: Plenty of ideas for freeing government data ... and finding a loo and the accompanying posting to the Free Our Data campaign blog titled: Show Us A Better Way: the winners are chosen
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