Might be of some interest to London based subscribers:
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http://geospatial.bcs.org/web/?q=freeourdata
On Wednesday April 2nd the BCS Geospatial Specialist Group is hosting
a presentation by Michael Cross on the Free Our Data campaign which
seeks to make the data collected by government-funded and approved
agencies, available for use for free. The campaign asserts that
charging for this data 'restricts innovation and artificially
restricts the number and variety of organisations that can offer
services based on that most useful data - which our taxes have helped
to collect.' Michael will be explaining the rationale behind, and
taking questions about, the sometimes controversial campaign, now in
its third year.
Michael Cross is a freelance journalist and regular contributor to
the Guardian. He has worked as a journalist on seven continents,
spending most of his time nowadays in the UK, exploring the intimate
labyrinths of government IT and information policy. He is joint
founder of the Free Our Data campaign, and is a member of the
National Union of Journalists, the Association of British Science
Writers and the British Computer Society.
NB This event is free, but registration is required. See http://
geospatial.bcs.org/web/?q=freeourdata for more information.
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Cheers,
Andrew
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Andrew Larcombe
Freelance Geospatial, Database & Web Programming
web: http://www.andrewlarcombe.co.uk
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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