Open Source the news:

The future for the BBC lies in the technology that can open it up to the world, just as technology gave it life last century. In the corporate world, Facebook, Apple and Google have launched platform services that allow external developers and companies to build services using their code - but the BBC is uniquely placed to use those same principles to create a cultural and commercial resource for the nation.

In post-Hutton 2004, startup investor and former BBC strategy manager Azeem Azhar proposed a “BBC Public Licence” that would allow both the public and business to use BBC content and code to build on, play with and share. It seems his vision is finally coming to life. “Four years on, the BBC is in a much stronger position to do this,” says Azhar. “It has the opportunity to create a new ecosystem, just as MySQL [the open source database system], as a platform, created an ecosystem around itself.”

Read more of The BBC can be an open source for all of UK plc by Jemima Kiss

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