From the monthly archives: March 2010

UK Government Plans to Open Up Data

By Rufus Pollock On March 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Yesterday, in a speech on “Building Britain’s Digital Future”, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced wide-ranging plans to open up UK government data. In addition to a general promise to extend the existing commitments to “make public data public” the PM announced:

The opening up of a large and important set of transport data [...]
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Talk at Forum Virium’s Open Up the City Event in Helsinki

By Rufus Pollock On March 9, 2010 · 1 Comment

This Thursday (11th March) I’m speaking at the Forum Virium’s Open Up the City event in Helsinki.

This year their focus is on “open data, design, interfaces and innovation” and I’m speaking under the title “Open Data: What, Why, How?”.

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Policy Recommendations in the Area of Innovation, Creativity and IP

By Rufus Pollock On March 8, 2010 · 1 Comment

I was recently asked to put together a short document outlining my main policy recommendations in the area of “innovation, creativity and IP”. Below is what I prepared.

General IP Policy Recommendation: IP policy, and more generally innovation policy, should aim at the improvement of the overall welfare of UK society and citizens and not [...]
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