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Welcome to BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT,Isle of Man Section website. Our section was created on the 7th of July 2004 as an international section of the BCS on a par with other similar sections such as Belgium, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Jersey and Guernsey sections.
Our Section holds either a professional or social event each month from September to June. There may also be impromptu social events in July and August. Our events are normally open to non-members.
Our forthcoming events are published on our web site and if you happen to be on the Isle of Man at a time coinciding with an open event please join us. If you are a BCS member and regular visitor to the island or would like to register with the Section anyway, then please update your details held by the BCS.
Open Data, Mashups and Social Enterprise – 2nd March 2012
Once considered a fringe interest, open source software and free data are now dominating government thinking around the world and increasingly offered by large corporations such as Enel (http://data.enel.com/en) or SNCF.
Indeed much of web is dominated by companies that appear to be giving away free services such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, OpenStreetMap, TripAdvisor and Linkedin with advertising, marketing, crowdsourced and freemium business models.
When the European Commission selected the free release of Public Sector Information as a key driver of growth in the European Single Market and a confident united response to default domination of the digital economy by Silicon Valley, the open data movement turned mainstream overnight.
The event will be held at the Claremont hotel on Friday 2nd March 2012. The programme is as follows:
5:00 PM Doors open for introductions, networking opportunities, etc. with complimentary light refreshments
5:45 PM Introduction
6:00 PM The business case for “open data”.
Professor Robert Barr OBE, Manchester Geomatics and University of Liverpool
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6:45 PM Local Updates followed by Panel Debate
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7:30 PM Demonstrations, discussions with the speakers, drinks at the bar, etc
Please note that the event is on Friday evening due to speaker availability.
THE BUSINESS CASE FOR “OPEN DATA” @ 6:00 PM
Professor Robert Barr OBE, Manchester Geomatics and University of Liverpool
Bob is a geographical information systems specialist with 30 years experience at the University of Manchester, Manchester Geomatics and the University of Liverpool, including a year in the USA as a Harkness Fellow, and he has delivered keynote presentations all over the world.
He will explore the pros and cons of trading data by benchmarking British Irish Council member countries and highlight lessons learned to maximise the value to the private sector and non-profits in the Isle of Man. He is the only person to receive an OBE from the Queen for services to mashups.
Biography
A council member and past chair of the Association for Geographical Information.
A member of the UK Ministry of Justice Advisory Panel for Public Sector Information.
Chairman of Manchester Geomatics, a commercial spin out from the University of Manchester labs and a market leader in dataset quality, that overcame 2001 census limitations and supplied the National Address Register for the UK 2011 census. Clients include the Land Registry, Thales and the Landmark Information Group and contributions to the IBM START programme.
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