Open Knowledge Conference

OKCon 2011: Programme Committee

The programme committee for OKCon 2011 represent expertise from the wide range of academic research and practice OKCon topic areas will cover. It is of great importance that all Working Groups of the Open Knowledge Foundation are represented in the programme committee and at OKCon 2011 itself. The experts of the committee will be grouped around the topic areas of OKCon.

Open Data Technology

• Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig (Germany)
• Sebastian Hellmann, Universität Leipzig (Germany), OKFN Working Group Coordinator for Open Data in Linguistics
• Philipp Frischmuth, Universität Leipzig (Germany)
• Michael Martin, Universität Leipzig (Germany)
• Anja Jentzsch, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
• Andrew Vande Moere, University of Sidney (Australia), and KULeuven (Belgium)
• Rufus Pollock, University of Cambridge, member of OKFN Board of Directors (UK)

Open Science and Open Data in Academic Research

• Stefano Costa, Università di Siena, OKFN Working Group Coordinator for Open Data in Archaeology and Italy (Italy)
• Claudia Müller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
• Tim Hubbard, Board of Management representative for Bioinformatics at Sanger Institute and Member of the OKFN Advisory Board (UK)
• Puneet Kishor, The Carbon Model Team, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Science Fellow, Creative Commons (USA)
• Adnan Hadzi, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)
• Peter Murray-Rust, Panton Principles, Open Bibliography, Open Thesis (Cambridge, UK)
• Christian Chiarcos, Applied Computational Linguistics Lab, University of Potsdam (Germany)
• Jim Pitman, Director Bibliographic Knowledge Network Project and Professor of Statistics and Mathematics University of California (USA)
• Adrian Pohl, North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz), Coordinator of the OKFN Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data (Germany)

Open Law, Society and Democracy

• Tariq Khokhar, Open Data in Development Working Group. Analyst at aidinfo, trustee of Bond and working on the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI).
• Chris Taggart, developer of OpenlyLocal OpenCharities and member of UK Govt Local Public Data Panel (UK)
• Javier Ruiz, Open Rights Group (UK)
• Christopher Corbin, independent researcher and advisor on the information society and the knowledge economy, OKFN Advisory Board (UK)
• Ton Zijlstra, Community Steward at epsiplatform.eu, consultant on complex change processes and informal learning, FabLab Foundation BeNeLux (Netherlands)
• David Bollier, author and activist on the commons, blogger at Bollier.org, Principal with Commons Strategy Group, Partner in Commons Law Project (USA)
• Anne Fitzgerald, Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
• Daniel Dietrich, Technical University Berlin, OKFN Working Group Coordinator for EU Open Data & Open Government Data (Germany)

Open Culture, Education and Commons Research

• Ignasi Labastida i Juan, Office for Knowledge Dissemination, Universitat de Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)
• Ian Ibbotson, Director of Knowledge Integration (UK)
• Andrea Goetzke, newthinking, all2gethernow (Germany)
• Stefan Meretz, computer scientist, commons advocate, blogger at keimform.de (Germany)
• Wouter Tebbens, President Free Knowledge Institute ; Director Free Technology Academy (Netherlands/Spain)
• Silke Helfrich, author and activist on the commons, blogger at www.commonsblog.de and www.gemeingueter.de, Principal with Commons Strategy Group (Germany)