Daily Archives: February 12, 2009

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GeoCommunity – Call for Papers

The call for papers for GeoCommunity ’09 was launched today. The themes are grouped as  Enterprise Mashups Futures UK SDI Informal Geography Data Politics RoI Geography Making a Difference Submit a paper, if your paper is selected you will get a free days attendance at the conference. If you twitter (or even if you don’t) you can follow the discussion around the conference by following GeoCommunity on Twitter or just by searching for #GeoCommunity

Debate can lead to agreement

The other night I was invited to speak at a Free Our Data debate hoted by the Policy Exchange thinktank. In the absence of any government speakers or representatives of the Trading Funds I think I was there as a surrogate.  I have participated in the discussion about policy and funding of geographic data for a while now and the dialogue has probably helped me and other participants to find an increasing amount of common ground. […]