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## Open Knowledge Forum on Civic Information (No. 2) ##
Organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation in association with the UCL
faculty of Computer Science (Ian Brown)
Web page: <http://www.okfn.org/okforums/civicinfo2/>
### Speakers ###
* John Sheridan, Head of e-Services at the [Office of Public Sector
Information](http://www.opsi.gov.uk/)
* Heather Brooke of [Your Right to Know](http://www.yrtk.org/)
* Julian Todd of <http://www.publicwhip.org/> on "Other
publicwhip-type projects I'd like to see and why"
* Richard Pope talking about scraping a planning database in
Brixton/Lambeth and Love Music Hate Racism's use of PledgeBank
### Where and When ###
* When: Tuesday 28th November, 1845 for 1900 start
* Where: UCL (London), Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre, Roberts
Building G08
* The Roberts building is immediately opposite waterstones at the
intersection of Gower Street and Torrington Place. See
<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/about-ucl/location/maps/campus_2006_screen>
* [Map of UCL within London](http://tinyurl.co.uk/23l7) (note that
the Roberts building is at the bottom of the block shown as UCL on this map)
### Registration ###
Attendance is free but please register at:
* <http://www.okfn.org/okforums/civicinfo2/>
Any problems (or additional information) email info [at] okfn [dot] org.
### Subject Matter ###
This forum will focus on open 'civic' information. Civic information is
material produced by government or other groups which is relevant to
political activity by citizens. In particular it includes:
1. The law be it in the form of statutes or judicial decisions
2. Statements of elected representatives at the local and national
level (for example the records of parliament in the form of Hansard).
3. Information about the activities of elected representatives and
other governmental officials
As with the first forum on civic information our focus will be on both:
* projects and software that work to produce or make available open
information
* the legal and social issues involved in obtaining and providing
such information
Motivating all of these efforts is the goal promoting greater public
involvement in the democratic system and increasing the accountability
of a government to its citizens.
### About the Open Knowledge Forums ###
**Promoting open information - getting it, using it, sharing it**
The Open Knowledge Forums are a series of informal gatherings centred on
the subject of open information/data. It aims to bring together those
/producing/ and those /campaigning/, and to cover everything from
software to the law. The sessions are usually held in the evenings in
London and their format is to have talks by three or four different
people followed by a general discussion.
The Open Knowledge Forums are organized by the Open Knowledge
Foundation: <http://www.okfn.org/>
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