Excerpt from the article: Despite its operatic acronym, ARIA is nothing to do with divas. Rather, the initials stand for Advanced Research and Invention Agency, a new office set up by the UK Government to lead on technology development and scientific breakthroughs. The aim for this new organisation is to think through problems in new […]
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Episode description from Percona: Amanda Brock is the CEO of OpenUK an organization that promotes the use of open source software, hardware, and data in the UK. Amanda has a deep background in open source dating back to the time she was the general council for Canonical. The HOSS talks with Amanda about her background,
This talk will start by exploring some of the profound changes that we have seen over the last decade or so and, in particular, how the smart phone and cloud computing have altered our perceptions of and interactions with software. Following which there be an introduction to trustable software and how we need to manage
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Where is the UKās digital strategy? While the devolved nations press on with their digital plans, the UK government has delayed its digital strategy ā yet this is too important for the economy to be put off any further.
An almighty battle is brewing over control and sovereignty of citizensā data As we head towards 2021, governments around the world are grappling with how to manage what will be a digital decade. If nothing else has come out of Covid-19ās collection of Track and Trace apps aroundā¦
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Excerpt from the article: In just a fortnight, the New Year will begin with the clear understanding across all governments that this is already a digital decade. As consumers, we utilise products and services created, distributed and consumed through software. As citizens, we share our data with governments and businesses alike. If nothing else has
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We talk to Amanda Brock, CEO of not-for-profit OpenUK about her career, the importance of open technology and of encouraging kids to learn digital skills.
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āI would say itās a virtual environment that takes the software that used to run your systems on local servers or desktops and places it in a third-party environment where itās hosted by experts,ā says Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK and previously a lawyer working in the tech sector for the past 30 years.
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