Wednesday 23rd February 2011 12:00 – 21:00 Claremont Hotel, Loch Promenade, Douglas David Cameron thinks that, if the private and voluntary sectors were allowed to extensively reuse any public sector information without personal data, the estimated value to the UK was at least ?6 billion pounds from economic development. The Isle of Man is well placed to develop an export led egovernment and mgovernment segment to diversify and rebalance the IT sector from the egaming segment. We already have the perfect sales tagline with “the oldest democracy in the world”. We have fell far behind other countries in the open data revolution and the next British Computer Society event is an “unconference” with expert speakers to debate and to help estimate the potential value to the Isle of Man from social and social enterprise projects. Chris Taggart is the lead at OpenlyLocal.com, the local government transactions data warehouse for local taxpayers to look at where the money goes and increasingly cross boundary shared services contracts. It eventually required the OpenCorporates.com and OpenCharities.org websites to know more about the payee. Julian Todd is a software developer at world famous eDemocracy websites such as TheyWorkForYou.com, WhatDoTheyKnow.com and ScraperWiki.com that inspired the MHKsTheyWorkForYou.com website by Eddie Power. Please note that Julian will be available in the afternoon for free consultancy on potential projects in the Isle of Man. Andrew Gleave is a leading mobile apps software developer and he will help you answer those tricky questions from directors, marketing and customers! Event flyer with full schedule: http://www.bcs.org.im/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/bcs-feb-v5.pdf It is a free event and non-members are welcome to attend but please confirm attendance by email to publicity06@bcs.org.im to guarantee a seat. Food and drink is available at all sessions at ?3 per person. Ends