Technology partner Andrew Katz visited Reykjavik for two days in October to meet with experts in open data and open government. Iceland’s financial crisis prompted a radical overhaul of the country’s political structures, including a crowd-sourced rewrite of the country’s constitution (now sadly derailed), and also prompted the government to promote free and open source software as a way of improving government services and increasing value for money in government procurement. The country has also opened a great deal of government data under the Open Spending project.