A warning on data.gov

The government's data initiative data.gov.uk was launched to a great deal of fanfare yesterday.

But out of it comes a warning from one of its creators Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

According to Berners-Lee

social inequalities between different areas will quickly become apparent. adding that

There was a risk that some areas would seem like “ghettoes” compared to others, although this was not necessarily a bad thing as it would create pressure on politicians to spend money on improving the worse-off areas.

Source-Telegraph.co.uk