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Comprehensive government database: Data of world's governments in one place
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: February 1st, 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jan/07/governme...
Data, data, data. There's loads of it out there and more coming your way as governments open their statistics vaults around the world. First the US with data.gov, then Australia and New Zealand followed suit. Now it's the UK's turn with data.gov.uk. And that's in addition to the cities and US states that have made government data available too: London launched very recently - you can get the full set of links for government data sites around the world here. You now have tens of sites around the world providing you access, but how do you find them? Well, this is now the place. To coincide with the launch of data.gov.uk, we have created the ultimate gateway to world government data. At World Government Data you can: Search government data sites from the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand and London ... in one place and download the data Help us find the best dataset by ranking them Collect similar datasets together from around the world Browse all datasets by each country.