OpenUK Blog

Camilla Siggaard Andersen

28th March 2020

The Local Smart City Experiment: What Covid-19 is teaching us about urban living

2020 is an extraordinary year. This year, people across the world will experience for the first time, first-hand, a completely different lifestyle to the one...

Amanda Brock

20th March 2020

Bishop’s Stortford College’s Amy tells us about winning “AWS GetIT”

As kids head home from a last day of school in uncertain times, we are pleased to hear from Amy of Bishop’s Stortford College. As...

Amanda Brock

12th March 2020

Covid-19 and OpenUK

Coronavirus remains a great unknown in our planning of 2020. As a tech community, financial ebbs and flows and travel bans aside, we are used...

Amanda Brock

9th March 2020

OpenUK announces national schools competition using MiniMU Glove, supported by Red Hat

PRESS RELEASE 9th March 2020 – London, UK – OpenUK, the Open Technology advocate organisation for Open Data, Open Source Hardware and Open Source Software...

Amanda Brock

4th March 2020

Spring Forward into Open Technology, CEO’s Round Up

Looking at the snow in London in the last couple of days, it’s hard to imagine that Spring is around the corner. But as I...

Ashleigh Monagle

21st February 2020

Open Data in the age of PropTech – who is in control?

As real estate’s interest in venture capital investments grows, you may have heard that PropTech is the new (albeit smaller) cousin of FinTech. PropTech, defined...

Amanda Brock

12th February 2020

January Pinks – Amanda’s CEO Round Up

It’s been a busy old January. I am not sure why and am left wondering if it is a ripple in the pool of Brexit....

Amanda Brock

31st January 2020

The “Brexit effect” on Open Technology

Today, 31 January, 2020 I have woken up in Brussels, the capital of the European Union. As a Scot, a region of the UK known...

Van Lindberg

20th January 2020

OpenUK Amicus Brief in Google v Oracle copyright law suit

Open Source Attorney, Van Lindberg discusses the filing with the U.S. Supreme Court of an amicus brief including OpenUK. An amicus brief is filed in...

Amanda Brock

16th January 2020

OpenUK, new Board and Strategy to kick off the Roaring 20’s, 19 January 2020 London

A new OpenUK Board of 12 kicked up a storm yesterday as they travelled the length and breadth of the UK to meet in Fieldfisher’s...

The Local Smart City Experiment: What Covid-19 is teaching us about urban living

Bishop’s Stortford College’s Amy tells us about winning “AWS GetIT”