U.S. follows UK lead on transparency!

Ok. I am deliberately being a bit provocative, but its great to see a couple of US organisations creating a site called http://www.showusthedata.org/ where US citizens (and probably anybody) can suggest US federal data sets that should be publically available and people can vote on which ones they think would be most helpfully make public. So its a bit like showusabetterway but with a direct focus on data sets rather than interesting uses of data sets plus use of direct voting to highlight the key data sets. The initiative was triggered by President Obama's commitment to greater transparency which no doubt others will also be useing as a platform for innovative suggestions.