5th Communia Workshop

Accessing, Using, Reusing Public Sector Content and Data

- When: 26-27th March 2009.
- Where: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, London School of Economics

Co-funded by the European Union

Videos from day one, morning

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09:30-09:40 - Welcome,

Professor Ian Angell (London School of Economics)

09:40-10:00 - Keynote:

Tom Watson MP (Minister for Digital Engagement and Civil Service Issues),
The government view: progress so far

10:00-11:30 - Social and economic value of public sector material

Jamie Love (Director, Knowledge Ecology International),
Governments and databases
Rufus Pollock (Fellow, University of Cambridge + Director, Open Knowledge Foundation),
Economics of Public Sector Information
Tom Steinberg (Director, mySociety),
mySociety
Michael Nicholson (Deputy Chair, PSI Alliance + Expert Member, APPSI),
PSI: State control or Public freedom?

11:30-12:00 - Coffee

12:00-13:30 - Getting the rights right: law and policy

Mr. Luis Manuel Ferrão (European Commission),
The need for an European approach
Brian Fitzgerald (Queensland University of Technology),
Access to PSI: Policy, Law and Technology
Mireille van Eechoud (IViR),
Getting the rights right at the EU level, Does the Public Sector Information Directive Deliver?
Naomi Korn (JISC SCA Consultant),
In from the cold

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