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January 09 2010

4iP and Facebook: smart

amie Arnold’s added some more colour to yesterday’s announcement that 4iP will be funding some applications built with the new London Datastore. And the announcement is that the other partner is… Facebook. 4iP needs some glue to bring its investments together, and that glue might simply be the people who use them (rather than a more corporate portfolio approach). So a hook-up with Facebook makes a lot of sense. And not just on this project, either.

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January 07 2010

Boris Johnson to unveil data website for London - ZDNet.co.uk

Tags: 4iP, boris, data.london.gov.uk, opendata

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BBC News - London unveils digital datastore

More than 200 data sets detailing life in London are to be put online by the capital's governing body. 4iP, Channel 4's Innovation for the Public Fund, said it would back the best ideas with a £200,000 cash pot. Boris Johnson, London Mayor, said releasing the data would make the GLA more open and accountable. "I firmly believe that access to information should not just be the preserve of institutions and a limited elite," said Mr Johnson in a statement. "Data belongs to the people - particularly that held by the public sector - and getting hold of it should not involve a complex routine of jumping through a series of ever decreasing hoops," he said.

Tags: 4iP, data.london.gov.uk, boris database 4ip government data

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December 03 2009

4iP invests in ScraperWiki

4iP recently invested in ScraperWiki, a platform to scrape, store, aggregate, and distribute unstructured public data in more useful, structured formats.

Tags: scraperwiki, opendata , project 4iP, scraping