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Government 2010: Open Data, Mashups and Government Web

And open data! I’ve got to declare an interest here. I’m a cofounder of Timetric – so I, of course, think that open data is a really great thing and we need a lot more of it! The panel for…

  • Dave
  • October 22, 2009
  • 3 Comments
  • Government 2010 conference, Guest post

Government 2010: Social Inclusion Panel

This panel, chaired by Computer Weekly‘s Tony Collins, started with a call from the stage to stop twittering; sit there, and cover our eyes and mouth. That’s the experience of digital exclusion. According to Martha Lane Fox’s research, 10 million…

  • Dave
  • October 22, 2009
  • 1 Comment
  • Government 2010 conference, Guest post

Government 2010: Martin Greenwood of SOCITM on the Web channel in local government

Despite being a pseudo-statistician startupper, I was fortunate enough to meet a few readers of this blog at LocalGovCamp. Martin Greenwood’s giving a long keynote – 30 minutes – on the role of websites in providing local services. Here’s my…

  • Dave
  • October 22, 2009
  • 3 Comments
  • Government 2010 conference, Guest post

Government 2010: Government and the Internet

This session’s chaired by Dominique Lazanski, alongside Hamish Nicklin from Google, Nominet‘s Phil Kingsland, Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group and Phillip Virgo from EURIM. They start with a question from the chair: How does Government regulation help, or…

  • Dave
  • October 22, 2009
  • 3 Comments
  • Government 2010 conference, Guest post

Government 2010: Tom Steinberg, mySociety

Tom Steinberg of mySociety follows Adam Afriyie with the last keynote of the morning session. He starts with an announcement – that, with the Open Society Institute, mySociety are seeding similar organisations in Central and Eastern Europe – and a…

  • Dave
  • October 22, 2009
  • 1 Comment
  • Government 2010 conference, Guest post, Uncategorized

Government 2010: Adam Afriyie

Onto the last two talks before lunch! First up, Shadow Minister for Science and Innovation, Adam Afriyie. He confesses straight away that he would keep closely to his notes — for fear of getting the sack. Of course, this is…

  • Dave
  • October 22, 2009
  • Government 2010 conference, Guest post

Government 2010: the blogger panel

Iain Dale, Mick Fealty, Stephen Tall, Craig Elder from the Conservative Party and Adam Parker from Realwire kicked off the blogger session at Government 2010 with five minutes each. Here’s something on each of those! Mick went first: To state…

  • Dave
  • October 22, 2009
  • 6 Comments
  • Government 2010 conference, Guest post

Government 2010: Peter Kellner from YouGov, eConsultation panel

Here’s some notes from the first two sessions at Government 2010! If, in haste, I’ve accidentally misquoted/misparaphrased, I apologise in advance: there’s a lot more on Twitter, and you can watch the conference live online here. The first speaker of…

  • Dave
  • October 22, 2009
  • 7 Comments
  • Government 2010 conference, Guest post

Government 2010: agenda

Government 2010 kicks off in London in a couple of hours, and it’s going to be all-liveblogging, courtesy of Davepress and Timetric, all the time this morning. Here’s the agenda: 9.00am – 9.15am Opening Remarks: Jeffrey Peel, Government 2010 9.15am…

  • Dave
  • October 22, 2009
  • 2 Comments
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