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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Transparency</title><link>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/88/ShowForum.aspx</link><description>Welcome to the data transparency discussion forum.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61120.2)</generator><item><title>Re: Corporate transparency</title><link>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1191.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:25:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">95228dda-f094-4169-8108-e76e21f705f7:1191</guid><dc:creator>richardsonjames1983</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1191.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=88&amp;PostID=1191</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Derek Holder:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Verna Chung:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;The department has been publishing its &lt;a href="http://www.communities.gov.uk/corporate/transparencyingovernment/"&gt;spend data&lt;/a&gt; since August 2010 and would be interested to know whether there are any innovative applications being developed as a result of this. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please tell us what you think about the data we publish and how you have found it useful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This could be exceedingly useful &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
							I think it's extreemly important for transparency on all corporate enviroments &lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Corporate transparency</title><link>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1187.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:43:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">95228dda-f094-4169-8108-e76e21f705f7:1187</guid><dc:creator>teatrubucuresti</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1187.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=88&amp;PostID=1187</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;The information gathered is very useful as well as interesting.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Waiting forward to seeing other ways to improve corporate decision making.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Corporate transparency</title><link>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1185.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:59:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">95228dda-f094-4169-8108-e76e21f705f7:1185</guid><dc:creator>markus</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1185.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=88&amp;PostID=1185</wfw:commentRss><description>It's really important to publish data and keep it open. &amp;nbsp;That way other professionals, such as small businesses could design and build websites and apps that use this data in a positive way. Also, for example with the fire service on this website you can see &lt;span class="GRcorrect" id="GRmark_7c8824a172c9865d04d12db993112085518a7dca_expenditure:0"&gt;expenditure&lt;/span&gt;. &amp;nbsp;It could present an opportunity for different &lt;span class="GRcorrect" id="GRmark_a0574b59ddf68dc29895a24b93e807866d92fa3d_fireservices:0"&gt;fireservices&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;to share data and information from this website in an effort to maybe &lt;span class="GRcorrect" id="GRmark_a0574b59ddf68dc29895a24b93e807866d92fa3d_re design:1"&gt;re design&lt;/span&gt; or to improve their services and see where money is being wasted, or where resources could be pooled together.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"&gt;				&lt;/span&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Corporate transparency</title><link>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1182.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:04:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">95228dda-f094-4169-8108-e76e21f705f7:1182</guid><dc:creator>JamieL</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1182.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=88&amp;PostID=1182</wfw:commentRss><description>Corporate transparency is extremely important, and this information is very helpful.&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Corporate transparency</title><link>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1180.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:09:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">95228dda-f094-4169-8108-e76e21f705f7:1180</guid><dc:creator>http://thedebtsreliefreviews.com</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1180.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=88&amp;PostID=1180</wfw:commentRss><description>Thanks ! I think publishing such data is extremely important. The data is very useful for us.</description></item><item><title>Re: Corporate transparency</title><link>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1179.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 07:30:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">95228dda-f094-4169-8108-e76e21f705f7:1179</guid><dc:creator>DanielHarrison76</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1179.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=88&amp;PostID=1179</wfw:commentRss><description>It definitely is useful information. We posted &lt;a title="Free Ads" href="http://www.freeadstime.com"&gt;Free Ads&lt;/a&gt; about this spending data on a local public site, so it brings up the awareness within the community.</description></item><item><title>Re: Corporate transparency</title><link>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1177.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:44:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">95228dda-f094-4169-8108-e76e21f705f7:1177</guid><dc:creator>autoprt1</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1177.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=88&amp;PostID=1177</wfw:commentRss><description>also interested in the new applications with the published data.&amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Re: Corporate transparency</title><link>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1176.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 17:24:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">95228dda-f094-4169-8108-e76e21f705f7:1176</guid><dc:creator>Silver007A</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1176.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=88&amp;PostID=1176</wfw:commentRss><description>I think there needs to be more information on how transparency might work and apply to us. We look for work within government all the time and it is just so difficult to&amp;nbsp;understand&amp;nbsp;what to do.</description></item><item><title>Re: Corporate transparency</title><link>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1175.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:30:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">95228dda-f094-4169-8108-e76e21f705f7:1175</guid><dc:creator>BenTaylor1</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1175.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=88&amp;PostID=1175</wfw:commentRss><description>Will there be any updates on the thread?&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Corporate transparency</title><link>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1168.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:30:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">95228dda-f094-4169-8108-e76e21f705f7:1168</guid><dc:creator>DavidB</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1168.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=88&amp;PostID=1168</wfw:commentRss><description>yes, should apply to housing associations</description></item><item><title>Re: Corporate transparency</title><link>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1167.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:02:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">95228dda-f094-4169-8108-e76e21f705f7:1167</guid><dc:creator>ramonpadilla</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1167.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=88&amp;PostID=1167</wfw:commentRss><description>yes...me too</description></item><item><title>Re: Corporate transparency</title><link>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1166.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:08:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">95228dda-f094-4169-8108-e76e21f705f7:1166</guid><dc:creator>RobertPattinson</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1166.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=88&amp;PostID=1166</wfw:commentRss><description>would be interested to know whether there are any innovative applications being developed</description></item><item><title>Re: Corporate transparency</title><link>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1165.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:59:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">95228dda-f094-4169-8108-e76e21f705f7:1165</guid><dc:creator>robinlaw</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1165.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=88&amp;PostID=1165</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt; I'm surprised this has only been done starting 2010. I appreciate the transparency with regards to contracts and tenders because this will deter corruption and awarding of large contracts based on personal favors/relationships &amp;amp; not what is best for the taxpayers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Corporate transparency</title><link>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1164.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:41:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">95228dda-f094-4169-8108-e76e21f705f7:1164</guid><dc:creator>Kennithk</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1164.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=88&amp;PostID=1164</wfw:commentRss><description>Great information. Thanks&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Corporate transparency</title><link>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1163.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:35:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">95228dda-f094-4169-8108-e76e21f705f7:1163</guid><dc:creator>guybrown</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/thread/1163.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://haveyoursay.communities.gov.uk/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=88&amp;PostID=1163</wfw:commentRss><description>What is being done with this data?</description></item></channel></rss>