WhatDoTheyKnow: Meet The Users. Gavin Chait, part 1
Channel: mySociety
Date: 2016-08-18

Gavin Chait used Freedom of Information to ask every local authority in the UK to provide data on empty business premises. It's all part of a project to make things easier for start-ups, by providing them with the kind of information that normally only big business can afford.

Here's how WhatDoTheyKnow provided the platform he needed.

Part 2 of this story is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYbO5gFy4WY, and check out Gavin's project at http://pikhaya.com/.

Find out more about WhatDoTheyKnow at www.whatdotheyknow.com.

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Music: Flower by Blue Dot Sessions also CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Pecan_Grove/Flower