Advocacy groups, individuals get into the government data game

When the Office of Management and Budget announced last spring that it would set up a repository of government data feeds, called Data.gov, a number of other sites appeared aiming to duplicate or even improve on the work that the General Services Administration was doing to create the service. For instance, Microsoft started the Open Government Data Initiative, which would be a free repository for government data that others could access through its Azure cloud-computing service.

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