An Open Government Data Licence for the World?

ComputerWorld UK -  Glyn Moody - As I've noted before, the UK government is now arguably the leader when it comes to open data. Of course, that's not really the point: this isn't a competition with winners and losers, but a global effort to open things up. As such, it would be nice if there were more collaboration between the different governments - things like this, for example:

As revealed yesterday, the province of British Columbia became the first provincial government in Canada to launch an open data portal.