Maximising the use of public data – should research and publically acquired data be made more accessible?

  • July 10, 2013
  • Dinner, Discussion
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Professor Geoffrey Boulton OBE FRS FRSE
Chair, Royal Society Inquiry into Science as an Open Enterprise
Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt FREng
Chairman and Co-Founder, The Open Data Institute
The Rt Hon David Willetts MP
Minister of State for Universities and Science, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Professor Sheila M Bird OBE FRSE (Panellist)
Programme Leader, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute for Public Health, Cambridge

Financial Services Knowledge Transfer Network, Lloyd's of London and the Michael John Trust

This discussion appeared in the FST journal below.

Volume 21 Number 2 of the journal contains reports of meetings on open access and open data, future cities, the Armitt review of infrastructure and the celebration of the centenary of the Medical Research Council.

Volume 21, Issue 2