So, we're three years old, and starting to get a bit more confident about our mission to teach government and the voluntary sector how it should be doing things better.
This page is for more major project ideas that involve other major institutions having to make changes themselves, rather than us just bolting stuff on the side.
* Parliament publishes structured votes data
* Parliament publishes structured hansard data and commmittee reports
* Parliament publishes structured data about bills, and amendments to bills (proposed or accepted), and in advance of any debate or vote about them.
* Parties publish their Whips, in structured format.
* National Heritage and associated heritage groups start investing seriously in the production of easy to use, open standards compatible, geographically marked up and peer produced networks of historical data.
* The Inland Revenue puts a bulletin board, fully disclaimed, next to its tax return site so that citizens can ask each other questions about how the process works.
* The DCA mandates all government departments to publish all FOI responses not just on their site, and not just with standardised metadata, but in full, nicely structured formats which can be re-used elsewhere, with relevent licences attached.
* The DCA releases its Statute Law Database (of consolidated law) under the same license terms as Acts of Parliament are released.
* The Ordnance Survey starts mandated to provide all its data in regularly updated, open standards compatible web service formats.
* The Ordnance Survey pressured by the Treasury and politicians to totally revise its licencing regime to acknowledge the substantial opportunity costs it now creates for the UK economy.
* Companies House releases all its data about companies (perhaps with addresses anonymised or behind a captcha to prevent spamming of company directors?) such as annual return, accounts and names of directors, as open data.
* Land registry provides an API which returns polygons of all land in the country and who owns it.
* All local councils publish meeting minutes and councillor information in a standardised (machine readable) format
* Online newspapers as a matter of course include links to sources of their information (e.g. text of UN resolutions, parliamentary debates, etc.)
* The UK passes an Act equivalent to the ![[WWW]](/wiki/mstheme/img/moin-www.png){kind=small}
Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act in the US, and implements it to show all money spent by the government.
* Change the law to give organisations that let users posts links on their sites for being liable for the content at the other end of those links.