Show Us a Better Way

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• 2010 New Year update
  
• Progress on Show Us A Better Way and a beta report
  Now it's been a little while since the winners were announced so it's about time for an update on what we've been up to, what's coming up and how you can get involved. In developing your ideas we have needed...
• You're on the radio (now) ...
  Apologies for the short post (and no picture) but I have just had it confirmed that the winner of Show Us A Better Way will be announced on Radio 4's PM programme tonight. Listen here
• And the winners are ...
  Congratulations to everyone who was involved in submitting ideas. Apparently there has been some other contest this week, but the one that has had us excited is who is going to win Show Us A Better Way? Well after a...
• Have you voted?
  The guardian and the Free Our Data campaign are running a public vote on your ideas to select 5 or so ideas to carry through to the short list stage. The full post on picking a peoples shortlist is well...
• Final day!
  We are into the final mile! The competition closes today and all entries must be submitted by midnight tonight. We want your good idea, so don't miss the boat. There have been a couple of queries along the lines of...
• Competition closes 30 September, not long now ...
  This is just a quick reminder that our competition closes on 30 September or Tuesday next week. You have one week to get in your killer idea or build your working prototype. So what are we looking for? We are...
• Prototypes - How to go about winning that new £20,000
  As you may have noticed we launched a new strand to our competition last week - a £20,000 cash prize for people working up prototypes of people's ideas. Some of you may well be in the position that I was...
• New £20,000 prize for 'prototypes'
  THe second half of the annocuncement this morning is that we have a new prize! Your ideas have so impressed Michael Wills, the Ministry of Justice minister, that he has stumped up £20,000 of his department's money to fund a...
• www.buildingdemocracy.co.uk - new competition from the Ministry of Justice
  The Ministry of Justice have launched a new competition today to find projects that will help reconnect people with the democratic process. In their words: "We want more people to participate in our democracy, and we want you to come...
• You're on the BBC!
  Thanks to your creativity and hardwork this competition was featured on iPM on Radio 4 at the weekend. They did a piece looking at the steps we are taking to garner your ideas and how awe are planning to turn...
• Website updates
  Well done for your steady stream of good ideas. It is amazing to think we have been running for only a couple of weeks and over 200 of you have submitted your ideas! Absolutely staggering! Unsurprisingly this level of innovation...
• New information unlocking service
  We have been so busy approving your brilliant ideas that we neglected to post about the excellent new information unlocking service run by OPSI. A common refrain from online experts on government data is "just let us at it". Well...
• 150 ideas and counting...
  A week in, and over 150 of you have submitted ideas. We're busy working out how to categorise them so they're easier to browse - definitely A Nice Problem To Have. Thank you - more ideas please! Here's how the...
• Public spending Information
  A large number of you have posted ideas that seek to make public spending more accessible and easy to digest. Normally at this point we would be pointing to the shiny new data set we have made available. In this...
• Wow, yet more information ...
  Well we have now been live for around 3 days and we continue to be bowled over by how many good ideas there are out there (and also how many good sites there are that we didn't know about!). However,...
• One day older, one day wiser
  Well we have been open for business for our first full day. We have been delighted at your positive response and the number of brilliant ideas you have submitted - over 100 so far. Some definite themes are emerging around...
• We've Launched!
  Welcome to our new site! This is a competition about data, about communication and above all about making government more useful. The government produces masses of data on what is happening around the UK. Infomation on crime, on health, on...