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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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Karen Sandler talks “Digital Autonomy” in advance of her OpenUK Healthcare keynote in London on 6 February
Digital autonomy – our ability to choose and control how technology integrates in our live- has never been more important. It also has never been...
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How open source can live up to its name in a post-Brexit world
Amanda Brock, CEO at OpenUK and keynote speaker at Tech Leaders Summit, explores how open source can thrive in a post-Brexit world
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“Some people have all the luck” Neil McGovern, Executive Director, Gnome Foundation
Some people have all the luck – by Neil McGovern.
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DG Connect: Open Source 2020 and Beyond
The European Commission is taking Open Source, Open Hardware and Open Data seriously and recognising the need to take real and defined steps to move...
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Dominic Cummings and Number 10 need you!
It’s the start of a new decade and with Brexit on January 31, inevitably a new era for the UK.
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