egovernment

What public APIs are provided by Governments to the public?

I stumbled across NOAA's SOAP Service and it got me thinking. What other eGovernment services are provided to Business and the general public by Governments? I know the United States has a lot APIs, but what about other governments like the European Union. I am interested in not just SOAP but any Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service ...

What is .gov cloud computing or G-cloud? Is it like Google's App Engine? Is it secure for secret data?

.Now I will be dealing with government data that needs to be secure on government servers. Is this .gov cloud a nice alternative to App Engine? ...