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TSO Latest Sponsor for Government 2010
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TSO is pleased to be associated with Government 2010 and the Open technology event on April 22nd…
As the leading provider of information management and publishing solutions to the public sector, TSO’s experts help to create, structure, capture, enrich and deliver some of the most important government information.
TSO has been at the forefront of working with public sector clients to open up published data.
“TSO is very excited about the drive to greater Government transparency through the open data initiative” commented Richard Dell, CEO of TSO. “Building on TSO’s unrivalled experience in managing public sector websites we are able to provide the tools and services to help our clients make their public data public in line with Government objectives.”
Open Data Meets Open Social at G2010
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Who would have predicted a few years ago that we’d see the emergence of consultancies dedicated to helping companies, local authorities and even government departments better understand social media?
Gemma Cocker and her business partners have gone one stage further and founded a consultancy that focuses on Twitter strategy and management – they call it Tweetie and the Brain.
The team lists companies such as the FT within their client list. Few outfits have a deeper understanding of the impact Twitter is having on the Generation Y connected generation and how we might see the emergence of new hybrid socialised apps in the government sphere.
We have invited Gemma to participate in our panel on Open Data Meets Social Data Meets Generation Y. This will discuss what we might see emerging when consultation, social media and open data based apps merge together.
This session will be chaired by Matt Warman of the Telegraph. See our agenda for more details.
G2010 Sponsor Media Release
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RSC Publishing Releases Online Publications Platform Powered by Mark Logic
SAN CARLOS, Calif. — March 9, 2010 — Mark Logic Corporation, a leading provider of information infrastructure software, today announced that RSC Publishing, one of the world’s largest publishers of chemical science information, has launched a new beta publications platform built on MarkLogic Server. For the first time, more than 165 years of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) content is discoverable and accessible to the chemical science research community through a single search interface.
RSC Publishingbeta is now available online at www.rsc.org/publishingbeta. This new integrated platform allows RSC authors, readers, and customers to search across approximately 20,000 book chapters, 300,000 journal articles, and nearly 500,000 database records. The site has faceted browsing that allows for rapid filtering of results and the ability to simultaneously discover related content. Furthermore, RSC Publishing’s unique design allows users to intuitively navigate the site and find relevant journal, book, and database content quickly.
Read more at : http://www.marklogic.com/news-and-events/press-releases/2010/rsc-publishing-releases-online-publications-platform.html
Andrew Walkingshaw: Government Data and Context
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Andrew Walkingshaw leads sales, product marketing and business development operations for Timetric and will be presenting in the morning session at our Open Data and Open Source event on April 22nd.
Andrew will talk about government data as essential context; that there are businesses where the government data (or something derived directly from it) is the whole thing, but there are far more businesses where open data becomes one of many tools in decision-making or product development. (The distinction he draws here is between a business which makes maps and a business which makes products or services of which maps are only one part; there are far more of the latter…)
According to Andrew, “Government data is particularly interesting economically because it sets the playing field; it’s essential context for comparison or analysis with almost anything else. That’s the kind of thing I want to talk about – how free Government data magnifies the value of data around it.”
In the past Andrew was a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Cambridge’s Chemical Laboratory. He, alongside Dan Wilson, designed markup languages and workflows to automate the computational prediction of materials properties. Whilst there, he was an invited delegate to an European Science Foundation working group on computational chemistry workflows, to Science Foo Camp, and to the 2008 Bloomsbury Conference on e-Publishing and e-Publications.
G2010 Open Technology Venue Announced
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We are delighted to announce that the venue for our Open Technology event on April 22nd will be the Park Plaza Hotel at Westminster Bridge.
This brand new ultra-modern hotel is situated in London’s South Bank, within walking distance of the city’s most iconic attractions, including Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, the London Eye and the London Aquarium.
We have a very limited number of places available to attend the live broadcast and our delegate fees include unlimited tea, coffee, and filtered water throughout the day, pastries and cakes at breaks, fruit and juice at breaks, and a fabulous buffet lunch. Oh and you get to hear our expert speakers discuss open data related issues in the morning and open source trends in government in the afternoon.
Don’t miss the chance to attend on the day. Priced at just £95 + VAT for commercial delegates and £75 + VAT for government delegates this is a must-attend event. We expect huge demand so hurry! Book now.
Mark Logic Named as KM World 100 Company and CODiE Finalist
Posted by: | CommentsMark Logic, one of the sponsors of Government 2010, has been named to KMWorld’s “100 Companies that Matter” List for the sixth consecutive year.
The full list is available here…
MarkLogic Server has also been named 2010 CODiE Awards Finalist for “Best Database Management Solution” – see below…
Open Technology Event Update: AudioBoo
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Listen to Jeff Peel’s latest podcast below…
This podcast features updates on the latest panel sessions at the Government 2010 Open Technology Conference on April 22nd – this includes:
The Open Data session (which takes place in the morning of April 22nd) and the Open Source software session – a look at how Government departments and local authorities are making use of open source software platforms (in the afternoon).
Jeff announces MarkLogic, leading XML Server Company, sponsors G2010 and confirms the latest speaker line-up which includes:
- Simon Dickson of Puffbox;
- Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor, Daily Telegraph;
- Andrew Walker, Tweetminster;
- Peter Ter Haar, Director of Products, Ordnance Survey;
- Andy Williamson, Hansard Society;
- … more speaker announcements & full conference agenda to follow.
G2010 Call for Developers & Open Source Innovators…
Jeff also launches a “Call for developers” urging open source software developers & web development firms – who are developing products & services for the Government Sector – to make contact for further speaker openings in the afternoon session. Contact Jeff Here »
Finally, for those who haven’t registered – Sign-up here to watch the free live streamed G2010 conference on April 22nd »
* Tickets will also be released shortly for those that wish to attend the live event in London – Contact us here for further details »
Open Source Government Web Pioneer to Speak at G2010 Open Technology Event
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Simon Dickson is the principal consultant at Puffbox and will be speaking at the G2010 Open Technology Event on April 22nd, 2010.
Simon is well into his second decade in the web business and has established something of a reputation for knowing how to use web technologies in government and news media circles.
Simon became Whitehall’s first full-time website specialist back in 1995, designing and developing the award-winning Foreign Office websites which are still considered to have set the early standard for central government. He also introduced new web-friendly working practices at Sky News, and won a European Online Journalism award for innovation.
Here are a few key milestones from his career:
First central government website committed to real-time updating (Foreign Office, 1995); First government website to be driven by a recognisable CMS (Foreign Office, 1998); First government website to offer personalisation/email alerting (Foreign Office, 1998); Best central government website (Foreign Office, numerous times 1998-9); Regular contributor to live Sky News TV output, including weekly Technofile show (2000-1); European Online Journalism award for best innovation in online journalism (Sky News, 2001); First government website to offer RSS feed (National Statistics, 2002); Best corporate website in government (General Register Office, 2005); First Google Maps-based data mashup in central government (Dept for Education & Skills, 2006); First blog-powered corporate website in central government (Wales Office, 2008); First official ‘live blog’ of a world summit – like ever, worldwide (Progressive Governance Summit, 2008).
Simon will be taking part in the Open Source section of the Government 2010 Open Technology Event on April 22nd, 2010 – and will focus, in particular, on how government is adopting open source CMS platforms such as Wordpress.
Tweetminster Founder on User Experience at G2010 Event
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Andrew Walker is Co-founder and Creative Director of Tweetminster, the Twitter based politics news and analysis utility. He will be speaking in the Open Data section of our G2010: Open Technology Event on April 22, 2010.
Andrew has worked on the internet as a designer, developer and strategist for 15 years. Formerly a research fellow at the Loughborough University School of Art and Design in computers and cognition and MD of London based digital media agency Thin Martian, Andrew has worked on hundreds of apps, games, communications and web projects for public sector and corporate clients ranging from Hansard to Xbox.
At Tweetminster Andrew has helped to drive the agile development of apps, analysis tools and semantic search technology to make political conversations more accessible, monitor the use of social media by politicians and analyse the debates that shape UK politics. He will discuss how open web data and technologies are impacting government communications and citizen interaction.
“The challenge facing any app developer, especially with government data, of making the user experience and banding as strong as commercial offerings. Government apps must compete for time with professional tools, news websites and social networks, or integrate into those environments – either way to be relevant to web users they’ve got to be intelligent, social and genuinely useful.”
Digital Economy Bill Clause 17 Watered Down
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Clause 17 of the Digital Economy Bill – the clause that incensed content owners such as Google, Yahoo and Facebook – is to be watered down by the government.
A spokesman for the Department of Business has said, “We have tabled a series of amendments which aim to clarify the breadth and scope of the clause and further reinforce the transparency of the process and the scrutiny of Parliament.”
