The only really new thing in the chancellor's speech was the recruitment of Beth Noveck, the woman who's been running the Obama administration's open data initiative.

BBC: Open government - in tune with the Zeitgeist?

Beth Noveck, former deputy chief technology officer in the Obama administration, called for an open-source approach to rethinking government, making its operating system as accessible to everyone as the code that powers the Arduino device.

CNN: What if you could make anything you wanted?