"Put in your postcode, out comes the data"

Nigel Shadbolt and Tim Berners-Lee in The Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6920761.ece

“We all recognise the power of information. It guides our behaviour and decisions. It tells us when the trains run and when the roads are jammed, how schools, hospitals and police are performing. We live in an age in which the essential raw material is information; data with a context. It underpins our economy and our society.” ….