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Jeremy Ruston on Open Source in Government Panel
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Jeremy Ruston (pictured left, photo: Doc Searls), BT’s Head of Open Source Innovation, will be taking part in our afternoon panel on Open Source software in government. The panel will be chaired by Matt Warman of the Telegraph.
Jeremy is the founder of Osmosoft and creator of TiddlyWiki, a popular open source wiki. He joined BT three years ago to lead its open source innovation activities, helping BT take advantage of the unique business opportunities offered by participation in open source communities.
Emma Mulqueeny to speak at G2010
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Emma Mulqueeny, on her own admission, has a “personal passion” to free up non-personal government data.
Here’s how she puts it…”Sir Tim Berners-Lee and many others have identified the value that can be generated through developers and other areas of government sharing and reusing data to create really useful applications, web tools and online information. This is frequently achieved with minimal technical cost, shaped by core civil service management skills in enabling access to information, and handling the consequent interest generated in services developed, and the uses to which they are put.”
Needless to say, therefore, Emma will be an interesting participant in our Open Technology event on April 22nd.
Emma provides support to UK government departments working on the delivery of their transformational government strategy and some of the power of information taskforce report recommendations.
Emma will be taking part in a discussion session chaired by Matt Warman of the Daily Telegraph.
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.
Telegraph Technology Editor to Run Discussion Panel at G2010 Open Technology Event
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Matt Warman has been at the Telegraph for over 10 years, and has written about technology for the last four of those.
Currently Consumer Technology Editor, his role is to focus on how technology, from gadgets to websites, changes our everyday lives.
Matt will be chairing a panel session focused on how open technology might change how government services are provided - at our April 22nd Open Technology Event. His panelists will be announced in due course. Matt’s session will explore how the citizen user experience might change as a result of next generation open technologies.
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.”
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.
Keynote Speaker Announced: Andy Williamson, Hansard Society
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Andy Williamson of the Hansard Society
Dr Andy Williamson is Director of the Hansard Society’s eDemocracy Programme. He will be a keynote speaker at our upcoming event on April 22 focused on Open Technology.
A researcher, consultant and commentator on digital media and social policy, Andy’s work focuses on engagement and inclusion, online political communication and digital policy at a national and local level.
Andy was Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Government’s Digital Strategy Advisory Group, he has advised the Australian Federal Government and various government departments, parliaments, international agencies and civil society organisations.
The Hansard Society recently suggested 5 top priorities for the Director of Digital Engagement. We hope that Andy will discuss the 3rd and 4th, in particular, in more detail on April 22nd:
Give civil servants access to the social media tools that the public use and make sure that they know how to use them properly and effectively. As part of this, it will be necessary to train and mentor civil servants in how to engage effectively and genuinely with the public.
Innovate. Innovate. Innovate. We like the PoI suggestion of adopting the ‘backstage’ model and support this but we’re also keen to see a culture of innovation develop where creative, fast-to-market tools are created, deployed and shared. We want to see this go further, not just a percentage of the budget to seed innovation but a percentage to seed engagement too. We’re not advocating greater spend because we also see the value in a parallel systematic review of online spend to ensure it is being targeting correctly.
Open up the policy dialogue, within government and beyond to citizens. This leans heavily on the two priorities above but is important in itself. We want the policy dialogue to be open, transparent, accessible and timely.
Integrate government data into civic life, make information – data – available now, online and for free. Unless there is a good reason to restrict access the default position is that data is shared. We don’t just want a whole new series of PDF downloads and websites, this data needs to be provided in a range of formats, including being made available through simple to use APIs so that others can work with it dynamically.
Promote digital inclusion. Online government doesn’t work without online citizens so it’s important not to lose sight of the ‘customer’.
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.
