Shoreditch a hub of 'exciting innovation', says science minister Science minister David Willetts told a gathering at Google's Big Tent event this morning that future scientific research will rely heavily on the mining, slicing and dicing of data from the public sector. His comments come as the government's Open Data Institute was launched, having been plonked on the London's Silicon …
an example of a "very exciting" cluster of "innovation" that'll help boost the UK economy.
Translation - A £10 million roundabout where a few business will make a couple of people loads of money which they'll probably evade tax on and then move abroad once they get established.
"to turn raw information from Blighty's government into something tangible and worthwhile." they say rubbish in, rubbish out...... so know matter how much money you throw at it your still going to get the same crap whilst we've got the same government and whats the betting they still wont be able to keep track of MP's expenses.
This relationship with Google is getting pretty worrying, every other country + dog is throwing privacy lawsuits, monopoly investigations, and pretty much every other type of legal wrangling at them yet out gov is about to jump in bed and give them loads of public\private data.
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