The District of Columbia in the US is running an interesting competition called AppsForDemocracy along similar lines to our ShowUsABetterWay competition.
Entries are requested for innovations using data that is being offered by the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO).
The data is really well presented in a Data Catolog. This appears to be both very comprehensive and user-friendly fulfilling the requirements we have set out here for an Access Layer.
The Terms of Use are also interesting as they simply add some extra terms specific to RSS feeds and data files onto the normal terms and conditions for using the public website. The emphasis in both documents is on disclaimers about information quality and liability rather than on any form of copyright enforcement.
Richard Allan, Task Force Chair
Power of Information Task Force 