“I would say it’s 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 it’s hosted by experts,” says Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK and previously a lawyer working in the tech sector for the past 30 years.
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Excerpt from the article: We are at a crossroads for technology and politics. Charlene Barshefsky, a former US trade representative writing in the Financial Times, has warned of an “incipient techno-nationalism”, which she sees emerging in Europe, and worries that EU digital protectionism risks damaging ties with the US. At the same time Angela Merkel and Emmanuel
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Excerpt from the article: Max Schrems has spent the last decade (give or take) as a young man on a mission. His aim has been to force attention on the issue of US surveillance and European data privacy. Every day, data is shipped to the US or passes over US servers as part of the
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Privacy activist Max Schrem’s court victory creates an ideal opportunity for open source and open data approaches, says OpenUK’s Amanda Brock Max Schrems has won his case, leading to EU-US Privacy Shield being declared as invalid by the Court of Justice of the EU. However, standard contractual clauses remain acceptable, as long as the companies
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Linux Format puts on its clean shirt and trousers to go on a VoIP call with Amanda Brock and discuss OpenUK, influencing government policy and how old we all are.
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“One of the things the German’s did very right was to walk away from their initial app.” CEO of Openuk Amanda Brock explains how we initially weren’t the only country to go with a centralised app…but we were the only to try and stick with it!
Excerpt from article: “Yes of course it’s perfectly true that it would be great to have an app, but no country in the world has a functioning track and trace app,” Boris Johnson claimed last Tuesday in the House of Commons. Keir Starmer calmly pointed out that Germany has precisely such an app. This prompts
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On this week’s show we talk with OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock about Open Source technology, IP protection, and a fascinating education collaboration with Imogen Heap to spread the word about Open approaches.
