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Ordnance Survey and Open Data at Government 2010 Event
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Peter ter Haar, Director of Products, Ordnance Survey, will be speaking at the Government 2010 Open Technology event on April 22nd.
Peter is responsible for all aspects of product management including product marketing, licensing, research, engineering, cartography and supply.
Before joining Ordnance Survey in November 2006, Peter already had more than 18 years’ experience in product management and business development in both the public and private sectors in GI, location-based services and mobile technology.
His previous roles include senior product, technical and general management roles in Geodan, Autodesk, Intergraph and the City of Amsterdam.
A public consultation is underway relating to Ordnance Survey data. More details here.
Neil Williams Blogs About G2010
Posted by: | CommentsNow Neil Williams has added his notes re. Government 2010 on Thursday last…
http://neilojwilliams.net/missioncreep/2009/what-i-nearly-said-at-government-2010/
Summaries of Sessions at Government 2010
Posted by: | CommentsAndrew, over at DavePress, has done a splendid job at summarising most of the sessions that took place at the Government 2010 event.
Prior to us putting the archived video content online you may want to check out these summaries if you missed the live event in-person or online:
Philip Virgo on Government 2010
Posted by: | CommentsPhilip Virgo made a superb contribution to our session on Government and The Internet at Government 2010 Live from London on Thursday. He has written a blog post about it over on Computer Weekly.
I enjoyed Government 2010 on Thursday despite the tunnel vision of enthusiasts who believe the Internet changes everything but will nonetheless be much the same in 2015 as it is today. That may, unfortunately, be true in the UK where the Digital Britain vision is still only for one-way video-streaming rather than the “competing inter-active, broadcast quality video networks to the home” that was the vision of the last Government for 2002.
Many Thanks
Posted by: | CommentsThanks to all our panelists, speakers and sponsors for making Government 2010 such a success.
We’ll have the content online soon.
We’re streaming live from 9.00am today
Posted by: | CommentsWe’re streaming live from 9.00am today.
You can watch free – but we do ask that you register. When you have registered and submitted your form the confirmation message will contain the URL you need to watch the live stream.
If you have already pre-registered you will have received an email with the live stream URL. So check your inbox for messages.
Enjoy the broadcast. Remember, you can comment or ask questions using Twitter or live chat. Twitter tag is #G2010
Democratic Society Founder in Social Inclusion Panel
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Anthony Zacharzewski
Anthony Zacharzewski will be participating in our panel focused on the Internet and Social Inclusion chaired by Tony Collins of Computer Weekly.
Anthony and four others founded the Democratic Society in 2006. The Society is a non-partisan, non-profit organisation that works to support political participation and citizenship.
He has also spent thirteen years working in government, including spells at the Treasury and Cabinet Office, and on the management board of a city council.
He has a degree from Cambridge, where he specialised in the history of the Athenian democracy, and lives in Brighton with his wife and two children.
Phil Kingsland of Nominet to Join Government & Internet Panel
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Phil Kingsland
Phil Kingsland, Director of Marketing & Communications at Nominet, will be joining the discussion panel at Government 2010 focused on government regulation of the Internet.
Nominet operates at the heart of e-commerce in the UK, running one of the world’s largest Internet registries and managing over seven million domain names. Nominet manages the .uk Internet name space and maintains the register of .uk domain names. They also run the technology which locates a computer on the Internet for addresses that end in .uk.
Phil heads-up the Nominet Marketing & Communications team - responsible for the communications, PR and media relations and marketing of Nominet and .uk.
Conservatives Will Axe Timms Tax on Telephone Lines
Posted by: | CommentsTwo central planks of the Digital Britain Bill will be axed by the Conservatives if they come into power according to reports in today’s media.
According to the Daily Telegraph the Shadow Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, “would reverse proposals in the Government’s Digital Britain bill and may even tear up the BBC’s royal charter.”
Mr Hunt said that his party would abolish the intended 50p a month tax on telephone lines to provide £175m a year towards broadband for all UK homes “as soon as possible” after the election. This proposed tax may well be introduced before the next general election by the Minister for Digital Britain, Stephen Timms.
He also pledged to reverse plans to make the BBC share £130m of its license fee with other broadcasters.
(Adam Afriyie MP, Shadow Minister for Innovation and Science, will be speaking at Government 2010 on Thursday).
Google’s Hamish Nicklin in Government and Internet Regulation Panel
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Hamish Nicklin
We’re delighted to confirm that Hamish Nicklin, Head of Government and Public Sector at Google in the UK, will be taking part in our panel discussion on Government & The Internet at Government 2010 Live from London on Thursday, 22nd October.
This session, to be chaired by Dominique Lazanski, who has written extensively on government regulation of the Internet, will also feature Philip Virgo of EURIM, Jim Killock from the Open Rights Group – as well as a spokesperson from the .UK domain registry Nominet.
