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Open Data - Field Trip time!

As part of my on-going quest to find out everything I can about Open Data, I've decided to dedicate 3 weeks of my annual leave to researching sources of Open Data in the Far East. I'll be slogging around Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam to locate the best Open transport stats, postal address files and maps that I can to bring back to the UK to build new products with. Actually, that's partly a lie. I am going to the Far East but I'm actually heading to beaches, temples and bars to find cultural enlightenment and cheap Pad Thai. So while I'm off, I thought I'd leave you with some interesting links to Open Data sources and stories from around the World. To start with, some interesting thoughts on why Open Data should be about more than transparency. This article also features detail on how UK Doctors have improved survival rates in heart surgery using Open data over seven years to the point that the UK is now leading Europe. The Doctor heading this up (Sir