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mashup* Event - Data & Government 2.0 - 7th October

10/07/2008 - 18:00
10/07/2008 - 22:00
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http://thegingermonkey.blogspot.com/2008/10/mashed-event-data-and-government-20.html

http://www.technology4media.com/uk/pressrelease.php?cat=&co=&id=1123&mode=    http://web20.telecomtv.com/pages/?id=f7e62028-1ab4-490d-8adb-dfc93628f845&vidid=3251&view=video

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Location: Speechly Bircham, London

Postcode & Map: 6 New Street Square, http://www.speechlys.com/contactus/map_and_directions

Programme:

18h00 - Registration (tea/coffee & biscuits)
18h30 - Speakers/Panel
19h00 - Panel/Q&A

20h10 - Networking & Demos

Speakers

William Perrin - Cabinet Office

Steve Palmer- CIO at Hillingdon Council in London

Mike Bracken - Guardian News and Media's Technology Director

John Sheridan - Head of e-Services, Office of Public Sector Information

Charles Arthur- Editor, technology - Guardian Media

Nick Jones - Director of Interactive Services - COI

Jeremy Gould  - www.whitehallwebby.com


Moderated by Will McInnes - Managing Director of NixonMcInnes

Biographies below :

 

Government 2.0

The UK government has been announcing that they are opening up (or intend to open up) vast databases of public data for use by the digital industry and other organisations.  The prime issue being that the data is in raw form and cannot easily be used by the public. Therefore there is a need for innovative companies to take the raw data or a selection of it and present it in a form that is accessible.

Ignoring privacy, data protection act and security as absolution roadblocks; what are the issues that need to be considered in order for our Government to engage with innovative companies and the wider public through digital products and services.

The focus of this event is on use (and abuse) of information, it is not about voting, ID cards, wisdom of crowds for policy formulation or any other deep political agenda.  The theme is aimed at:-

·       how to improve the access to information for the public using web technologies

·       developing innovation and being able to introduce it into the Government

.       should Government endorse use of its raw data and how should it make it available

    Should the public have access to the data in order to define what should be visible to outside angencies and what should not.  How could this be done.

.       if the output of the innovation shows a different metric to Government interruption - should there be controls?

·        Should commercial companies be able to sell this data and the analysis and should the government be party to the profits (or even sell access) outside of normal tax's.

.       How much of our personal data held by the Government should be available (and to who and on what terms)  

 

Will McInnes

Will McInnes is the Managing Director of NixonMcInnes, the UK's largest
specialist social media agency, based in the thriving digital community in
Brighton. The agency is helping big brands like BMW and Channel 4 and
leading ethical and not-for-profit organisations like Co-op Bank and Oxfam
to unlock and webify the data, tools, resources and value they have buried
far from the internet. Like all frustrated citizens, Will is excited by the
implications and promises of Government 2.0. 

 William Perrin

William Perrin is a Cabinet Office
civil servant - William commissioned the Power of Information Review in 2007
and is now Secretary to the Power of Information Taskforce

Charles Arthur - Editor, technology - Guardian Media


The editor of the Technology supplement of The Guardian, which comes out every Thursday. It also has a blog, updated through the week.

From 1995 to December 2004 I was technology editor at The Independent writing about technology, science and the environment. Major stories covered in depth included the dot-com boom (when a study found me the most sceptical journalist in Fleet Street about dot-coms' prospects - hey, do you think I was right?), the BSE crisis, .... See more stories I've written for The Independent; many are in paid-for parts of the site, however.

After that I freelanced - writing a weekly column for The Independent, and for other outlets too, including The Register and Netimperative. Among the stories that I wrote at The Register were the iPod nano's tendency to show scratches (Friday September 23, prompting other media to pick the story up for the Monday), Dell's closure of its customer services forums because they were too critical (July 2005), the threat of avian flu (June 2005) and the possibilities of fusion (July 2005).

John Sheridan

"John Sheridan is Head of e-Services at the Office of Public Sector Information, part of The National Archives. OPSI is a key enabler of government data, with a leading role for the re-use agenda in government and responsibility for the management of Crown copyright and database rights. Part of OPSI's senior management team John works at the intersection of information policy, technology and service delivery. With a background in Information Technology, specialising in the web, he has led a number of projects to enable government data, in particular using cutting edge Semantic Web technology. John is part of the team supporting the Power of Information Taskforce. He is also the UK government’s expert representative on semic.eu, the Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe and chairs the World Wide Web Consortium e-Government Interest Group."
 

Jeremy Gould - Whitehall Webby

I am a civil servant at a UK government department with responsibility for digital media strategy. I lead a team of web professionals managing a portfolio of websites, developing customer-centric online communication propositions, and using social media tools to encourage online engagement.

My focus is encouraging the community of web professionals in and around Whitehall to network, self-organise, and collaborate together with one purpose in mind: improving how government conducts itself online. This includes organising the first UK government barcamp for digital media experts, which was held at Google in January 2008, and a regular series of informal networking ‘teacamps’.

Nick Jones - Director of Interactive Services - COI

Nick Jones' career spans both the public and private sector. In 1994,
he co-founded New Media Age, pioneering its coverage of the impact
digital technologies were having on the marketing and media sectors. He
subsequently launched New Media Finance, a sister title, covering
business models and venture capital in the sector. In 1997, he
co-founded the European operation of Jupiter Research - a US analyst
firm covering online advertising, content, marketing and commerce. His
responsibilities included building Internet adoption and e-commerce
models for European markets. He also worked closely with clients to
inform their strategies for dealing with the impact of digital
technologies upon their businesses. In 2002, Nick joined the Cabinet
Office where he contributed to innovation in the e-government field,
around the use of intermediaries, service design and customer insight.
In 2006, he was seconded to the Government of Bermuda to run their
Department of E-Government, mentor the director-designate and lead their
business process management and customer satisfaction initiatives.

Nick holds an M.A. in geography from the University of St Andrews,
Scotland . He lives near the Ashdown Forest and when not being kept very
busy by family he likes to escape into it to ride bikes and snowboards.

Mike Bracken 

Mike Bracken is Guardian News and Media's Technology Director:
Development, with responsibility for software and product development, web
services and applications.

Formerly  a Director at Wavex Technology Limited, one of the
fastest-growing IT companies in the country, Mike helped to establish, and
is currently a director of, mySociety.org, which teaches the public and
voluntary sectors how to use the internet to improve lives. He has written
widely on technology, public service broadcasting and innovation for the
IPPR and other organisations, and holds an MBA from Henley Management
College.

Steve Palmer

Steve Palmer is CIO at Hillingdon Council in London and his brief includes, customer contact, ICT, e-delivery and the leading role in the Council's improvement work in Customer Experience. The Hillingdon Improvement Programme aims to move the organisation from modernisation to transformation. Steve won the "Public Sector CIO of the Year" award at the 2006 UK Technology, Innovation & Growth awards and was named as one of the top 50 most influential CIO's in the Country in 2007.
He has the rare distinction of being one of the select few Leyton Orient Football Club supporters and also enjoys travel and reading in his spare time.

 

Demos 

Ideas for My Council is a 'local government 2.0' concept dreamed up by Guy Dickinson and Simon Wheatley, who are based in Manchester.
Their idea is a web application that enables local people to 'suggest an idea for my council'. Others in the area engage by adding comments and rating the ideas.
When an idea reaches a certain critical mass, the site emails the details of the idea to the relevant department and for each of the councillors from wards where people are voting.
Councils will have access to give responses and updates to the ideas in the site.
Their plan is to build this web application to help local people connect with every council in the UK.
 

 


Comments

Wed, 10/01/2008 - 14:54 — AdrianRDNorman
Public sector information cannot be re-used until (1) it has been found and (2) the holder and re-user agree the commercial and other terms on which it is made available. The key to unlocking PSI, PSIKEY, is to set up a market similar to those which the City hosts for stocks and shares, insurance and shipping. PSIKEY will list all PSI holdings in a standard format and thereby provide all pertinent metadata on which a re-use contract can be based. This list is like the British Library's union catalogue of books in UK libraries, which in effect made it possible to borrow and read any title in any collection without having to contact possible holders individually and fruitlessly. PSIKEY records the agreed terms of every bargain. The early deals set precedents for others to follow and ensure compliance with the non-discrimination regulation in the 2003 EU Directive on Re-use of PSI. Representatives of holders and re-users will negotiate model agreements. (The Office of Public Sector Information has effectively done so for the IARs listed by Inforoute.) PSIKEY will not be limited to the UK. Re-users will be world-wide. The European Directive applies to holders in nearly 30 Member and associated States (and the PSI held by the Commission). Most OECD and Commonwealth nations hold PSI which could be re-used. Holders and re-users, the sellers and buyers in the market, can update and search respectively the information in the PSIKEY database without significant transaction costs. Most consequent deals will be made on standard terms or follow a precedent, again avoiding high transaction costs. Nevertheless, the re-user may have to pay the cost of providing the information under the agreement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PSIDER is a software package which public sector Information Systems Managers can set to crawl over their systems to create an IAR without human intervention. Like a virus or software license checker, it explores and reports to the IS manager who then decides how to act on what is reported. It makes no changes to the systems and requires few computer resources. Most ISMs would run their SPIDERs for a few minutes at night once a month. The only record of its activity is a set of information asset register records. The standards for IARs have effectively been defined by OPSI, the Office of Public Sector Information, see http://www.opsi.gov.uk/iar/create-an-iar-record.htm. PSIDER translates what it finds on the system into the language prescribed by the standard. In due course, it will recognise common systems widely used in the public sector and provide a “library” IAR for such applications as purchasing and payroll. PSIDER generates metadata - data about data – which by definition cannot be name-linked and therefore protected under the DPA. However, it can derive the metadata from actual data, which in principle could allow an individual to be identified. The ISM can restrict PSIDER to ‘safe’ applications and/or edit the results before allowing the IAR to be published. PSIDER can provide ISMs with an information management tool for internal use but it is intended to be used to facilitate external requests to re-use their PSI. In the latter case, the first re-user would be PSIKEY, a central index of re-usable PSI.