Innovating through PSI!
Source: London School of Economics (LSE) – Public Policy Group
Seminar: Innovating through Public Sector Information
London: 10 March 2010
The London School of Economics Public Policy Group will be hosting a seminar titled: Innovating through Public Sector Information. The seminar is part of a series under the title: Innovating out of the Recession. The announcement on the series states:
“The next decade is likely to be one of fiscal austerity, in which government will inevitably have to do more for less. Government innovations will be critical in finding new, more cost effective solutions to existing problems The LSE Public Policy Group in conjunction with the Institute for Government is holding a series of seminars looking at the scope for innovation across government. The series will have eight Seminars over the next 12 months on the topic 'Innovating out of the Recession'. This seminar programme is funded by the HEIF 4 Bid Fund.”
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The seminar: Innovating through Public Sector Information will be held on the 17th March 2010 and be held in the London School of Economics, London. The announcement states:
“This seminar will look at the availability and possible uses of large sets of public sector data. It will ask questions about the costs of data, the privacy and security issues, how open government should be with the data is collects and holds and what more could be done to innovate with this vast and relatively untapped resource.
This seminar will begin with an introduction from Professor Nigel Shadbolt who, along with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, serves as the Government’s Information Advisor. He will then discuss various initiatives that have been developed alongside the launch of the data.gov.uk website, where public sector information and data has been opened up to create ideas, applications and visuals.
Jerry Fishenden will discuss both current and past and experiences within the UK and internationally on the use of public sector data, including the potential benefits of opening up data, obstacles that block this potential, and the principles that are needed to remove these blockages.
Our chair, Guy Ker, is Director of Publishing at Directgov.”