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I've only skimmed through the Phase One report, but not surprised to see the UK government website (GOV.UK) mentioned. The massive GOV.UK website is an excelle

I've only skimmed through the Phase One report, but not surprised to see the UK government website (GOV.UK) mentioned. The massive GOV.UK website is an excellent example of using open source to provide public services and information. An example service: the official government coronovirus dashboard - https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ Scroll down to the footer and there is a link to all the frontend source code on GitHub. Information, not just source code, also benefits from being made open. For example, back in 2016, a UK government blog on accessibility shared a series of posters on designing for accessibility [1]. Many readers of the blog wanted to translate the posters. They were posted on GitHub and have been translated into Japanese, Estonian, Russian and many more languages: https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/posters/tree/master/accessibility/dos-donts https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/posters/tree/master/accessib... Finally, also equally important is open data: https://data.gov.uk/ https://data.gov.uk/ [1] Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility (2016): https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/02/dos-and-donts-on-designing-for-accessibility/ https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/02/dos-and-donts-o...

sofixa 5y ago
> The massive GOV.UK website is an excellent example of using open source to provide public services and information. An example service: the official government coronovirus dashboard - https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ Scroll down to the footer and there is a link to all the frontend source code on GitHub. This is how it should work. Public money, public code and information. The French government is also pretty good at this, a myriad of information being available as Open Data at all sorts of levels, from municipality to the whole central government and public companies - there's data on the number of days the public railway company has striked since 1947[0], the CO2 emissions per passenger on the high speed rail routes[2], or the number and location of electric vehicle charging points in a bunch of municipalities[1]), and the source code of a lot of things is made available (e.g. the health pass/contact tracing app, TousAntiCovid[3]. 0 - https://ressources.data.sncf.com/explore/dataset/mouvements-sociaux-depuis-1947/table/?sort=date https://ressources.data.sncf.com/explore/dataset/mouvements-... 1 - https://data.seineouest.fr/explore/dataset/reseau-de-bornes-de-recharge-pour-vehicule-electrique/information/?disjunctive.commune&disjunctive.type_borne&disjunctive.type_prise&disjunctive.etat https://data.seineouest.fr/explore/dataset/reseau-de-bornes-... 2 - https://ressources.data.sncf.com/explore/dataset/emission-co2-tgv/table/?sort=-tgv_empreinte_co2e_kgco2e_voyageur https://ressources.data.sncf.com/explore/dataset/emission-co... 3 - https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19 https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19

sofixa 5y ago

> The massive GOV.UK website is an excellent example of using open source to provide public services and information. An example service: the official government coronovirus dashboard - https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ Scroll down to the footer and there is a link to all the frontend source code on GitHub. This is how it should work. Public money, public code and information. The French government is also pretty good at this, a myriad of information being available as Open Data at all sorts of levels, from municipality to the whole central government and public companies - there's data on the number of days the public railway company has striked since 1947[0], the CO2 emissions per passenger on the high speed rail routes[2], or the number and location of electric vehicle charging points in a bunch of municipalities[1]), and the source code of a lot of things is made available (e.g. the health pass/contact tracing app, TousAntiCovid[3]. 0 - https://ressources.data.sncf.com/explore/dataset/mouvements-sociaux-depuis-1947/table/?sort=date https://ressources.data.sncf.com/explore/dataset/mouvements-... 1 - https://data.seineouest.fr/explore/dataset/reseau-de-bornes-de-recharge-pour-vehicule-electrique/information/?disjunctive.commune&disjunctive.type_borne&disjunctive.type_prise&disjunctive.etat https://data.seineouest.fr/explore/dataset/reseau-de-bornes-... 2 - https://ressources.data.sncf.com/explore/dataset/emission-co2-tgv/table/?sort=-tgv_empreinte_co2e_kgco2e_voyageur https://ressources.data.sncf.com/explore/dataset/emission-co... 3 - https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19 https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19