A number of people loosely connected with BBC Backstage (from inside the BBC at the time and outside of it) went to work for the UK Gov Digital Service under th

A number of people loosely connected with BBC Backstage (from inside the BBC at the time and outside of it) went to work for the UK Gov Digital Service under then-minister Francis Maude, which is where a lot of the Open Data stuff came from. So from that point of view, the work at the BBC did lead to a greater opening from within the government. I miss the BBC days fondly, very different to what I'm doing now but it was a great era.