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United Kingdom

National Information Infrastructure (UK0042)

Overview

At-a-Glance

Action Plan: United Kingdom – Second National Action Plan 2013-2015

Action Plan Cycle: 2013

Status:

Institutions

Lead Institution: Cabinet Office

Support Institution(s): CSOs: Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Rights Group, OpenCorporates

Policy Areas

IRM Review

IRM Report: United Kingdom End-of-Term Report 2013-2015, United Kingdom Progress Report 2013-2015

Early Results: Major Major

Design i

Verifiable: Yes

Relevant to OGP Values: Yes

Ambition (see definition): High

Implementation i

Completion:

Description

The key milestones for the delivery of this commitment are for: departments to provide release dates for datasets in the first iteration of the NII, where there
are no barriers to publication, and, where there are barriers, provide an explanation for nonpublication
by December 2013
 departments to set out arrangements they have put in place to describe the provenance and
ensure the quality and regularity of the release of data they have within the NII by January
2014
 departments, including their arm’s length bodies (ALBs), to ensure that their list of
unpublished datasets is comprehensive by March 2014
 departments to develop internal processes which identify unpublished datasets when they
are created and ensure that they are added to the inventory on data.gov.uk by March 2014
 departments to develop internal processes which ensure that data holders regularly
reconsider the use cases for their data by April 2014
 all central government departments to highlight those datasets which they must provide on a
statutory basis by April 2014, followed by their ALBs by September 2014
 all central government departments to highlight those datasets which it considers fall under
their public task by April 2014, followed by their ALBs by September 2014


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