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.”

Find out more about TSO…

It’s still work in progress but I’m delighted to announce the bones of an agenda for our event on April 22nd in London.

As heavily trailed, our April event builds upon our inaugural event in October last year and probes, in a lot more detail, what’s happening in terms of open data, and open data based applications.  We’ll also touch on the debate re. open source software in government in our afternoon session. 

At our last event apps developers made clear that opening up Ordnance Survey data was critical.  So we’re delighted that the Ordance Survey will be taking part in our April event.  We’ll also have the perspective of the Hansard Society – and Emma Mulqueeny of the transformational government team will be talking about data.gov.uk and the apps that are beginning to emerge.

Having talked about the platforms, the vision and the government agenda – we’ll then have a look at what the app community is developing.  This will feature companies such as Timetric, itoworld, and Ocastalabs. 

However, we want to go even further.  So we’re having a panel discussion that focuses on how open data based apps might evolve and meld into social apps: Open Data Meets Social Data Meets Generation Y (OK not a very elegant title but it’ll be a fascinating debate).  In a slight change of plan, that session will be moderated by Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Correspondent for the Telegraph – and will feature speakers such as Andrew Walker from Tweetminster and Gemma Cocker from Tweetie and the Brain. 

We’re also looking at the technologies that might drive  future apps and we’ll touch on open source software and how it might fit into the wider transformational agenda.  So William Heath will be chairing an afternoon session that discusses what’s next after open data and we’ll also have a series of presentations focused on open source software – with speakers from Learning Pool, Dextrous Web, BT and Puffbox – among others. 

So it’ll be a challenging day with some of the keenest brains in open data, government, geekdom, social media and open source.  We’ll have provocative discussions, arguments and presentations. 

Please consider treating yourself and attending the event - plus we have kept the cost absolutely miniscule for an event of this nature.  Watching our broadcast online will be free but you must register (if you haven’t already registered for our previous events). 

We can’t fit many people in to attend the broadcast but we’d like an audience that challenges our speakers on the day.  Also if you attend you stand a very good chance of featuring in our broadcast because, as before, we’ll be having vox pop interviews during the breaks.  Plus you’ll get to network and have a great lunch in a wonderful venue.

Switch New Media – the Web Broadcast and Streaming team behind Government 2010 - is streaming the National Digital Inclusion Conference from London today. 

If you would like to watch the stream just click here or on the image on the right.  Registration is required.

Mark 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…

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We have now opened registration to attend the Government 2010 Open Technology Event in London on April 22nd, 2010.  Our speaker line-up is shaping up and we’re expecting this to be a fabulous, ground-breaking event – just like our inaugural event in October last year.

As before the event will be streamed live, free of charge.  But sometimes you just can’t beat being there in person.  You can get to network with the speakers and other delegates. 

We are delighted to announce that we have slashed our attendance fees for our next event to just £95 + VAT for commercial delegates and £75 + VAT for public sector/NGO and charity delegates.  These fees include lunch and refreshments.  But you better hurry because we have a very limited number of places available to attend the live broadcast. 

Book now…

Or if you’d prefer to just register to watch the web streamed event, click here.

We’re delighted to announce that MarkLogic has become a sponsor of Government 2010.  The company has made the following statement:

MarkLogic Corporation Inc is pleased to be involved as a sponsor of G2010.  We have seen the enormous challenges that public sector organisations face with the complexity and cost of understanding, consolidating, maintaining and sharing critical information. These challenges cannot be easily met by traditional technologies and techniques without using huge amounts of resource, time and money.

With significant expertise working with Government agencies who have dealt with these issues MarkLogic  is in a position to help deliver an information infrastructure focused on opening up data and public information.  Mark Logic enables all internal and external content (regardless of structure/schema) to be combined, linked and repurposed.  This results in new, high-value content services, which can be disseminated to multiple devices and channels.  In short, information is made easily available – driving public services in a timely and affordable fashion.

We will be announcing further sponsors for Government 2010 in the coming weeks.  If you would like to become a sponsor of Government 2010 please contact Petra Johannson: petra@g2010.co.uk