People
The Open Knowledge Foundation is a community driven organisation primarily run by volunteers led by a core Executive Group, responsible for coordinating the Foundation's activities on a day to day basis. There is also an official Board of Directors who oversee the basic direction and activities of the Foundation as well as a distinguished Advisory Board.
More information about the Foundation's organizational structure can be found on the governance page.
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Executive Group and Board of Directors
Saul Albert
Saul Albert works with other people to make events, software, organisations and things which are not-just-art. He does this in many places including: The People Speak, The University of Openness, Twenteenth Century, Dorkbot London, Node London and many others. You can find more about him on the web here.
Dr Ian Brown
Dr Brown is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at Oxford University. His research is focused on public policy issues around information and the Internet, particularly privacy and copyright. He also works in the more technical fields of communications security and healthcare informatics. Since 1998 Dr Brown has variously been a trustee of Privacy International, the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Information Policy Research and an adviser to Greenpeace, the Refugee Children’s Consortium, Amnesty International and Creative Commons UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the International University of Japan and the British Computer Society, a senior member of the ACM, and has consulted for the US Department of Homeland Security, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Allianz, McAfee, BT, the BBC, the European Commission, the Cabinet Office, Ofcom, the National Audit Office and the Information Commissioner’s Office. He has written for the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian. In 2004 he was voted as one of the 100 most influential people in the development of the Internet in the UK over the previous decade.
James Casbon
James Casbon has been working with open knowledge throughout his professional career. He has been responsible for analysing and managing large scale data sets in genomics, aerospace and finance. He is currently working on a project to enable parallel resequencing of the human genome at Population Genetics Technologies. He is looking forward to contributing to the Foundation's work on an open data grid and on open data in science.
Jonathan Gray
Jonathan Gray is Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation. He studied Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, Social Sciences at the Open University and is currently doing research in the German department at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is particularly interested in open government data, data visualization and digital technologies in the humanities. More information can be found at jonathangray.org.
Jordan Hatcher
Jordan Hatcher is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, and holds an advanced degree in IP and technology law from the University of Edinburgh School of Law. Jordan has worked on a number of projects related to open content and copyright, including a study by the CIE about UK public sector use of Creative Commons and similar licences in 2005, an Eduserv Foundation funded study on use of open content by the cultural heritage sector in 2007, and on the Creative Commons Scotland localisation in 2005 and in 2007. More information can be found on his home page.
Becky Hogge
Becky Hogge is a writer and technologist. She was formerly the technology director of award-winning current affairs website openDemocracy.net, and Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, a grassroots digital civil liberties organisation.
Martin Keegan
Martin Keegan has been generally working in the computing industry since leaving school in 1994. He was involved in computing matters whilst at University. Back when he had copious spare time he campaigned on political issues connected to computing and the digital environment and was one of the founders of UK Campaign for Digital Rights.
Paula Le Dieu
Paula Le Dieu is a new media executive and advisor. Paula has worked with the BBC, Guardian, Fairfax, Ofcom and Creative Commons as well as online content and activism communities such as iCommons and the international documentary community. Her experience spans advising on the future of public service media, open culture theory and practice, the role of archives in the digital age, leading international communities of volunteers, building e-commerce solutions and sitting on the executive board of the leading European Documentary Festival - Sheffield Doc/Fest...amongst other things. More information can be found at ledieu.org.
Dr Rufus Pollock
Rufus Pollock helped found the Open Knowledge Foundation in 2004. He is currently the Mead Fellow in Economics at Emmanuel College Cambridge working on innovation and intellectual property policy. He has worked extensively, as a scholar, coder and activist on the technological, social and legal issues surrounding open knowledge. More information can be found on his home page.
Prodromos Tsiavos
Prodromos Tsiavos is the legal project lead for the Creative Commons - England and Wales (CC-EW) and Greece (CC-Greece) projects, an adviser for the CC-Norway project and an associate in Avgerinos Law Firm in Athens. He is a lecturer in the Informatics department of Oslo University and a research officer at the Innovation and Information System Group, Management Department of the London School of Economics. Prodromos has worked for the European Commission and Oxford University. He is currently teaching Open Source and Innovation Management issues at the University of Oslo and is working with the EnCoRe project, an EPSRC funded project on the management of consent for the use of personal data, at the London School of Economics. Prodromos is advising various public sector organizations in the UK, Greece and Norway on open content management, licensing and innovation issues.
Jo Walsh
Jo has been involved with OKF since 2005, focusing on open geodata and software development. These days she is is managing geospatial web services at the EDINA National Data Centre based at the University of Edinburgh. Her software career has involved media art, the semantic web, neogeography, community wireless networks, and all sorts of metadata. She was a founding director of the Open Source Geo-Spatial Foundation and co-author of O'Reilly's Mapping Hacks. More information can be found on her home page.
Advisory Board
Dr Sören Auer
Dr. Sören Auer leads the research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web at Universität Leipzig. His research interests are semantic technologies and knowledge representation aspects of Open Knowledge environments. Sören is founder of the open-source, adaptive knowledge engineering framework OntoWiki, founding member of the DBpedia project and chair of the first Social Semantic Web conference.
Christopher Corbin
Christopher Corbin is an independent researcher and advisor on the information society and the knowledge economy with specific interest in policy and its implementation with respect to public sector information. He is an openly selected expert advisor on Europe to the UK Advisory Panel for Public Sector Information (APPSI). Recent project involvement with respect to public sector information policy has included the European Union eContentplus funded ePSIplus Thematic Network (2006-2009), the Geographic Information Network in Europe (GINIE) (2001-2004). He has also contributed to the OECD initiatives on Public Sector Information policy principles.
Dr Tim Hubbard
Dr Hubbard is responsible for the bioinformatics groups that carry out analysis and annotation of the vertebrate genome sequence produced by the Sanger Institute. He is joint head of the Ensembl genome annotation project, which is the leading database and access point for the human genome sequence. Following the controversy surrounding the ownership and access to the human genome sequence, he has become a leading advocate of the benefits of openness in science and in society as a whole. He is involved in a number of NGO/Industry forums regarding the world patent system and access to essential drugs, including the plan by Medecin Sans Frontieres to set up a public domain drug development industry, DNDi
Paula Le Dieu
Paula Le Dieu is a new media executive and advisor. Paula has worked with the BBC, Guardian, Fairfax, Ofcom and Creative Commons as well as online content and activism communities such as iCommons and the international documentary community. Her experience spans advising on the future of public service media, open culture theory and practice, the role of archives in the digital age, leading international communities of volunteers, building e-commerce solutions and sitting on the executive board of the leading European Documentary Festival - Sheffield Doc/Fest...amongst other things. More information at ledieu.org.
Benjamin Mako Hill
Benjamin Mako Hill is a technology and intellectual property researcher, activist, and consultant. He is currently working full time on research into the application of technologies and lessons learned in free and open source software toward the production of other types of creative works a graduate student at the MIT Media Laboratory. He has been an leader, developer, and contributor to the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community for more than a decade as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects.
Glyn Moody
Glyn Moody is a UK based technology journalist and consultant covering the Internet since March 1994, and the free software world since 1995. His most recent books are "Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution" and "Digital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionizing Science, Medicine and Business". Glyn blogs at opendotdotdot.
Dr Peter Murray-Rust
Dr Murray-Rust leads a research group in the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University. Co-creator of the Chemical Markup Language (CML), he has long been a pioneer of data exchange and information-mining in the chemical sciences. Firmly committed to promoting openness and data availability throughout the discipline, he recently started the world-wide molecular matrix, the largest open online repository of molecular information in the world.
Professor John Naughton
John Naughton is Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University, and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, where he is Director of the Wolfson Press Fellowship Programme. He is also the Observer's Internet columnist, with a weekly column in the Business section of the paper. He co-founded www.livingwithoutmicrosoft.org and is a long-time advocate of open source software. His other commitments include chairmanship of One World international, membership of the Public Advisory Board of Creative Commons UK, and a co-founder of the Ndiyo project.
Professor Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling is Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and Director of Gapminder Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden. His research has focused on poverty and health in rural Africa, but as Director of Gapminder he now mainly works on promotion of a fact based world view through free access to socio-economic and environmental statistics in understandable and interactive animations. His goal is that data on the major global trends should not only reach the eye but pass on into the brain and affect how actions are decided.
Professor Peter Suber
Peter Suber is a Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, Senior Researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), and the Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge. He is the author of the Open Access News weblog and the SPARC Open Access Newsletter. He was the principal drafter of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and sits on the Steering Committee of the Scientific Information Working Group of the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society, the Publishing Working Group of Science Commons, and several other groups devoted to open access, scholarly communication, and the information commons. He has been active in promoting open access for many years through his research, speaking, and writing.
Mark Surman
Mark Surman is currently the executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, with a focus on inventing new ways to promote openness and opportunity on the Internet. On the side, Mark convenes conversations about 'open everything' in his home town of Toronto and around the world. Before joining Mozilla, Mark was an open philanthropy fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation, looking at new ways to apply open source thinking to social innovation. Mark blogs at commonspace.
Volunteers and Other Contributors
It is not possible to list all of the many people who have contributed to the Open Knowledge Foundation's work but a few of those who have been particularly involved include:
- John Bywater
- Tim Cowlishaw
- Lisa Evans
- Michael Holloway
- Peter Lockley
- Nate Olson
- Iain Emsley
- Jenny Molloy
- Nick Stenning
