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Excerpt from the article in As Pioneer: Amanda Brock is CEO and Chief Policy Officer of the UK body for Open technology, being open-source software, open hardware and open data, “OpenUK”. Founded in 2018, the not-for-profit, OpenUK, promotes businesses, projects and people, who use and develop Open Technology and strives to collaborate across all existing
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Rich Gall (@richggall) and Jennifer Riggins (@jkriggins) talk with the CEO of OpenUK Amanda Brock about the role of open technology in the UK’s tech industry and wider economy. Amanda explains the work of Open UK and highlights some of the work the organisation does to promote open technology. She also discusses exactly why this
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An overview of the commercialisation of open source and a review of the potential revenue models and their interface with open source, from the first study into this in 2008 to the recent shift by Elastic away from open source to the SSPL licence. Amanda is the editor of Open Source, Law, Policy and Practise
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Amanda Brock, CEO at Open UK, will deliver a keynote with a unique perspective, as the UK moves to Brexit. She will look not only at the impact of these Governmental and State activities on Technology, but the impact of the overall GeoPolitical landscape, data and digital sovereignty, a cloud for Europe and Asia’s bifurcation
Amanda Brock, Chief Executive of OpenUK, says that many people recognize the value of open source from a technology standpoint, however, open source has had a far-reaching influence on people, cultures, and communities. OpenUK is a unique and progressive organization. Having recognized the need to combine the three opens, open source software, open hardware, and
How many energy companies have a policy against the use of so-called ‘Open source’ software in their activities? Amanda Brock, chief executive of OpenUK, says it’s a common prohibition – but she suspects that a closer look will reveal that the prohibition is out of date. She says, “they are using it, but don’t understand
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As BCS publishes its analysis of the ONS IT employment figures as they relate to ethnicity, age, gender and disability, we spoke to two women with interesting social mobility stories. In this first instalment, Brian Runciman MBCS speaks to Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK about her journey from a council estate in Scotland to a
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