Richard Allan
Richard Allan joined Facebook from Cisco in June 2009 to lead the company’s public policy work in Europe. From 2008 to 2009 he was Chair of the UK Cabinet Office’s Power of Information Task Force to improve the government’s use of data. Richard was elected as Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam in 1997 and re-elected in 2001 before giving up his seat in 2005. Richard specialised in technology issues in Parliament and was Chair of the Information Committee and a member of the Public Accounts and Liaison Committees He has a degree in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Studies with Archaeology and Anthropology, and an MSc in Information Technology.
Keitha Booth
Keitha Booth is a Senior Advisor at the State Services Commission specialising in the development of all of government information policy. She has post graduate qualifications in librarianship and information systems.
James Boyle
James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School. He is the author of The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society and The Shakespeare Chronicles, a novel about the search for the true author of Shakespeare’s works. He is the co-author of Bound By Law (Duke U.P. 2008), an educational comic book on fair use, and is the editor of Critical Legal Studies (Dartmouth/NYU Press (1994), Collected Papers on the Public Domain (Duke: L&CP 2003), and the co-editor of Cultural Environmentalism @ 10 (with Larry Lessig.) Professor Boyle was one of the original board members of Creative Commons, and was also a co-founder of Science Commons, which aims to expand the Creative Commons mission into the realm of scientific and technical data.
Jessica Coates
Jessica Coates is the Project Manager of the Creative Commons Clinic, a program of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Innovation at Queensland University of Technology. The Clinic aims to promote and examine the use of the international open content licensing scheme, Creative Commons, in Australia. Jessica joins the Clinic from the Commonwealth Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA), where she worked as a policy officer with the Intellectual Property Branch, the National Broadcasting Section and the Collections Development Branch. Jessica has a Bachelor of Laws from the Australian National University, and a Masters in Law from the University of Melbourne.
John S Cook
John S Cook, BSurv (UQ), BA (UQ), BEcon (UQ), PhD (QUT). John has fifty years of experience in private sector, academic and public sector employment. His interests are in systems theory, cybernetics, history and economics applied to understanding the evolution of complex socio-economic systems; and governance arrangements that try to cope with the complexity. B2
Christopher Corbin
Christopher Corbin is currently an Advisor to the European Public Sector Information Platform funded by the European Commission to monitor and support the re-use of PSI. (www.epsiplatform.eu) Over the period 2006 through to 2009 he was an Analyst within ePSIplus Thematic Network that supported the implementation of the European Directive on Public Sector Information Re-use. Over the past 10 years he has also been involved and contributed to a number of European PSI projects and initiatives that included GINIE (Geographic Information Network in Europe), MEPSIR (Measuring European Public Sector Information Resources). He has also contributed to the OECD initiatives on PSI policy principles.
Terry Cutler
Dr Terry Cutler is an industry consultant and strategy advisor in the information and communications technology sector. Terry Cutler has authored numerous influential reports and papers on the Digital Economy and innovation. During 2008 he chaired the Australian Government’s Review of the National Innovation System which culminated in the Report, Venturous Australia. He is currently the Deputy Chairman of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Chairman of the Advisory Board, Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, among other appointments. From 1996 to 1997 he was Chairman of Australia’s Information Policy Advisory Council. While chairman of the Industry Research and Development Board from 1996 to 1998, Cutler spearheaded key initiatives in promoting venture capital and industry innovation.
Edward W Felten
Edward W. Felten is Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, and Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy, at Princeton University. His research interests include computer security and privacy, civic technologies, and technology policy.
Anne Fitzgerald
Professor Anne Fitzgerald is a Brisbane-based intellectual property and e-commerce lawyer. She is a Professor of Law Research at QUT Law School where she has worked as a principal researcher in the OAK Law and Legal Framework for E-Research projects. Anne has been teaching, researching and writing in the fields of intellectual property, internet and e-commerce law since the early 1990s. She was a consultant to the review of Australia’s innovation system (Venturous Australia: Building strength in innovation (2008)) and the Government 2.0 Taskforce (Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0 (2009)). In 2002 Anne was awarded the JSD degree (Doctor of the Science of Law) by Columbia University New York and also has a LLM from London University (University College). She graduated in law LLB (Hons) and welfare law (Grad. Dip. Welfare Law) from the University of Tasmania. She is a member of the Queensland Bar.
Professor Brian Fitzgerald
Brian Fitzgerald studied law at the Queensland University of Technology graduating as University Medallist in Law and holds postgraduate degrees in law from Oxford University and Harvard University. He is well known in the areas of Intellectual Property and Internet Law and has worked closely with Australian governments on facilitating access to public sector information. Brian is also a project lead of Creative Commons Australia. From 1998–2002 he was Head of the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University in NSW, Australia and from January 2002 – January 2007 was appointed as Head of the School of Law at QUT in Brisbane, Australia. Brian is currently a specialist Research Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation at QUT and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative B3Industries and Innovation. He is also an Honorary Professor of Law at the City University of London UK and a Barrister of the High Court of Australia. In 2009 Brian was appointed to the Australia Government’s ‘Government 2.0 Taskforce’ by Ministers Tanner and Ludwig and to the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP) by Minister Carr.
Nicholas Gruen
Nicholas Gruen is trained in History, Statistics, Law and Economics. He has published internationally on a range of economic policy issues, is a regular newspaper columnist, a board member of Sustainability Victoria, and is a substantial contributor to Australia’s thriving policy blog scene. He is Chairman of Online Opinion, a not-for-profit site hosting news and cultural opinion and Kaggle, a Melbourne based global platform for data competitions. Dr Gruen was a member of the Panel reviewing Australia’s Innovation System chaired by Terry Cutler. He is a member of an advisory committee guiding innovation in the Victoria Public Service and worked with the Federal Department of Innovation on its report to the Management Advisory Committee on innovation in Government. In 2009 Dr Gruen chaired the Federal Government’s Government 2.0 Taskforce.
Neale Hooper
Neale Hooper LLM, LLB, BA (Qld) is the principal lawyer for the Queensland Government’s Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF) Project and has led the project’s legal work since its inception in 2005. Neale is a leading IP and ICT lawyer with over 20 years experience with Queensland Crown Law, providing specialist law services in these areas. Presently he is on secondment to the Department of Environment and Resource Management and is a lead researcher on the CRC-Spatial Information Project ‘Enabling Real-Time Information Access in Both Urban and Regional Areas’. Neale has a Master of Laws from University of Queensland, and has been an adjunct lecturer at QUT law school since 2003.
Tracey P Lauriault
Ms. Lauriault is a researcher at the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre at Carleton University. She was the Research Leader for the Pilot Atlas of the Risk of Homelessness, part of the Project Management Team for the Cybercartography and the New Economy Project and lead researcher of the Cybercartographic Atlas of Antarctica Case Study for the International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) 2 and General Study of Archival Policies of Science Data Archives/Repositories. Her PhD dissertation is on mapping data access discourses in Canada. She is co-founder of CivicAccces.ca, ogWiFi.ca and co-author of datalibre.ca.
Ed Mayo
Ed Mayo is Secretary General of Co-operatives UK, which promotes the interests of co-operatives and provides a strategic voice for the movement. Ed has worked in the non-profit and the private sector and was the strategist behind the world’s most successful anti-poverty campaign, Jubilee 2000. Ed helped to start a range of public interest initiatives, including the Fairtrade Mark, the London Rebuilding Society and the cultural charity, MERRY. In June 2003, Mayo took up the role of Chief Executive of Consumer Focus. That year The Guardian nominated him as one of the top 100 most influential figures in British social policy and in November 2004 commented that ‘from cancelling third world debt to justice for working-class consumers, Ed Mayo is a key figure in social innovation.’
Hugh McGuire
Hugh McGuire is an entrepreneur, technologist, and a builder of open web (and non-web) communities. He is the founder of the free, public domain audiobook project, LibriVox.org, once called ‘perhaps the most interesting collaborative cultural project this side of B4Wikipedia.’ In addition he has founded or co-founded: bitesizeedits.com, bookoven.com, BookCampToronto, earideas.com, and datalibre.ca. Hugh speaks and writes frequently about media, publishing, the web, technology, mass collaboration, online community-building, open culture, and copyright. He lives in Montreal, Canada.
Kylie Pappalardo
Kylie Pappalardo is a PhD Candidate in the QUT School of Law. She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree with First Class Honours, a Bachelor of Creative Industries (Creative Writing) degree and a Masters of Law degree from QUT. From 2010 to 2011, she will be completing a Masters of Law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C. Since 2006, Kylie has worked as a research officer for the Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project. She is a co-founder (together with Professor Brian Fitzgerald) of the QUT/QPILCH Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic.
Rufus Pollock
Dr. Rufus Pollock is the Mead Fellow in Economics at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge and a Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation which he co-founded in 2004. He has worked extensively, as a scholar, coder and activist on the technological, social and legal issues surrounding access and sharing of knowledge.
David G Robinson
David G. Robinson is a J.D. candidate in the class of 2012 at Yale Law School. Before arriving at Yale, David helped launch Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, serving as the Center’s first Associate Director. He holds an A.B. in Philosophy from Princeton, and a B.A. in Philosophy and Politics from Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Stephen Saxby
Professor of IT Law and Public Policy, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Southampton UK. Editor, The Computer Law & Security Review - The International Journal of Technology Law and Practice (Elsevier) www.elsevier.com/locate/clsr; Editor, The Encyclopedia of Information Technology Law (Sweet & Maxwell); Director ILAWS - Institute for Law and the Web at University of Southampton www.soton.ac.uk/ilaws/; Associate GeoData Institute, University of Southampton; Programme Committee Chair - Legal, Security and Privacy in IT Law - conference series of the International Association of IT Lawyers www.lspi.net.
Fiona Stanley
Fiona Stanley AC is the Founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research; Chair of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth; and Professor, School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia. Trained in epidemiology and public health, her major contribution has been to establish the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. She has over 300 publications, books and book chapters and was named Australian of the Year in 2003.
Tom Steinberg
Tom Steinberg is the founder and director of mySociety, a non-profit, open source organisation that runs many of the best-known democracy websites in the UK. These include the Parliamentary transparency website TheyWorkForYou and the somewhat self-explanatory FixMyStreet. mySociety’s missions are to build websites which give people simple, tangible benefits in the democratic and community aspects of their lives, and which teach the public and voluntary sector how they can use technology better to help citizens. B5
Carol Tullo
As a Director at The National Archives, Carol heads up the Information and Policy Directorate, which includes the responsibilities discussed in the UK chapter, and which provides professional leadership in information policy areas across government and the wider public sector. Carol retains official titles under Letters Patent for the management of Crown copyright and database rights, publication of legislation and provision of official publishing guidance.
Paul Uhlir
Paul F. Uhlir, J.D., is director of the Board on Research Data and Information at the National Research Council in Washington, D.C. His work focuses on the intersection of science, technology, and law, specifically on issues relating to public research information policy, management, and applications.
Peter Weiss
Mr. Weiss began work with the Strategic Planning and Policy Office of National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service, in March 2000. His responsibilities included domestic and international data policy issues, with a view towards fostering a healthy public/private partnership. As a Senior Policy Analyst/Attorney in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Mr. Weiss was primary author of the information policy sections of OMB Circular No. A-130, ‘Management of Federal Information Resources’. Mr. Weiss held a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. The information policy community lost an international scholar when Mr Weiss passed away in 2005.
Frederika Welle Donker
Born and raised in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, after leaving high school Frederika emigrated to Sydney, Australia, where she worked as a technical officer at CSIRO and at the University of Sydney. Frederika returned to The Netherlands in 1998 and completed her MSc. at the Faculty of Technology, Policy & Management of Delft University of Technology in 2001. Since 2005 Frederika has been a researcher at the OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology. In 2008 she started a PhD study into the impact of the European Union framework on the free flow of geo-information and geo services.
Harlan Yu
Harlan Yu is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. His research is in information security, privacy, and technology public policy.
William P Zeller
William P. Zeller is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. His research interests include Internet application security, privacy, and electronic voting systems.