A group of academics at Princeton University in the US has published a very interesting paper called ‘Government Data and the Invisible Hand’.
This quote from the Abstract gives a sense of its strong alignment with the Power of Information thinking in the UK:
Today, government bodies consider their own websites to be a higher priority than technical infrastructures that open up their data for others to use. We argue that this understanding is a mistake. It would be preferable for government to understand providing reusable data, rather than providing websites, as the core of its online publishing responsibility.
Richard Allan, Task Force Chair
Power of Information Task Force 
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Designing & Building a website solely cannot be a
solution for governmnet, unless and until govt.
has a dedicated team to channelize that information into an Information Sysytem which
should be relevant to a group, community, region
or which can address the needs of people living
in a particular area. I am working on this so called
“IS” system and I am planning to target every family and Businesses in a Specific area. I did my
Dissertation which is very close to what government is asking here, in my MBA and
extended the same topic in Phd. I am now working
on a Business model which can not only offer its
usefulness to govt., but can be monitized with
sponsors and Advertisers similar to Search Engines
and social networking websites…
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