As announced previously, in association with the UCL department of Computer Science, we’re running an Open Knowledge Forum on Civic Information tomorrow night at UCL in London. There’s still some space left in the Sir David Davies lecture theatre so it’s not too late to register.

Speakers

• John Sheridan, Head of e-Services at the Office of Public Sector Information
• Heather Brooke of Your Right to Know
• 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 (note that the Roberts building is at the bottom of the block shown as UCL on this map)

Further details, including registration, on the Forum’s home page

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