Workshop on Finding and Re-Using Information

The Open Knowledge Foundation is organising a workshop on finding and re-using public information which is supported by the PoI Task Force.  For full information see the OKF website entry.

Details are as follows:

• When: Saturday 1st November 2008, 1030-1600
• Where: London Knowledge Lab, 23-29 Emerald Street, London, WC1N 3QS. (See map.)
• Wiki: http://okfn.org/wiki/PublicInformation
• Participation: Attendance is free. If you are planning to come along please add your name to the participants list, or email us (info at the okfn domain).

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Presentation to Information and Records Management Conference

I presented last week on the PoI agenda at the Information and Records Management conference in Southampton and promised to post my slides on this site in case anyone wanted a copy.  So, here they are…

Power of Information Presentation – Southampton – 16th Oct 2008

Richard Allan, Task Force Chair

Open Tech 2008 – Saturday July 5th

UKUUG and friends are organising what should be a very interesting event called Open Tech 2008 on Saturday July 5th. This event is described as

…an informal, low cost one-day conference on technology, society and low-carbon living, featuring Open Source ways of working and technologies that anyone can have a go at.

Previous events by the same team have been excellent.  And this one will feature a session on the Power of Information agenda during the afternoon.

You can register online.

BBC Debate on Common Platform

The ongoing debate about public service media in the UK is also stimulating thought and discussion around how best to present public data.

Steve Bowbrick has written about an idea he calls a Common Platform. And this will be discussed in a BBC debate next week.