Public Data Group
皇冠体育app Public Data Group (PDG) will no longer meet and its functions have been integrated into a new Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) board. 皇冠体育app Public Data Group (PDG) brought together 4 organisations (Companies House, Land Registry, Met Office and Ordnance Survey) that excel in the collection, management and distribution of vital data sets, under one banner.
皇冠体育app Public Data Group was established following the 2011 Autumn Statement. Since then it helped its members work together to identify shared improvements, best practice and efficiencies across areas including surveying and IT.
More recently its work focused mainly on data policy. This involved projects such as the recent GeoVation challenge on Housing. 皇冠体育app challenge saw Land Registry and Ordnance Survey run a joint competition for innovators to promote and support the use of their data to solve housing issues. PDG also recently did a survey of users of its data and published the results as part of a Public Data Group Spring Statement.
皇冠体育app PDG Board met for the final time in April 2015.
皇冠体育app new BIS Digital Culture, Services Platforms and Data Board will be internal to BIS. It will bring together relevant senior officials from across the department and its wider family of organisations. 皇冠体育app existing functions of the PDG board will be incorporated into the new BIS board and the CEOs of Companies House and Ordnance Survey will join as permanent Board members. 皇冠体育app current PDG Chair, Claudia Arney, will attend as a non-executive director on a temporary basis.
Claudia Arney, Chair of PDG, said:
I鈥檓 pleased with what the PDG has done and am excited at by the prospect of what the new Board can achieve in taking this work further. This will put PDG members鈥� expertise and vital data at the heart of BIS digital and data policy.
Data and digital are, and will continue be, key to growth in the UK economy. I think it鈥檚 exactly the right thing for BIS to bring this wide range of activities under a single Board and I look forward to supporting it.
Membership
皇冠体育app members were:
Terms of reference
Documents
皇冠体育app Public Data Group: Open Data statement 2014 provides information on the work of PDG and commitments for 2014 to 2015.
皇冠体育app Public Data Group: Public Data statement 2015 provides results of a survey of organisations using PDG data, actions resulting from the survey and updates on existing commitments. View the .
Contact details
For any enquiries about Public Data Group please email: [email protected].