[euopendata] Fwd: Re: ICT 2010 Networking Session on Governmental Linked Data

[Antti Poikola]

Hello,

How is it going with the ICT 2010 session prepariing, unfortunately I 
missed the skype session.

> The aim of the networking session is two-fold: to point out research 
> challenges whose resolution would have a great impact on industry and 
> society and to demonstrate commitment of various stakeholders in working 
> on such challenges. As such, it would be important that the session has 
> speakers from various areas:
> 
> ** research: Tim Berners-Lee, Chris Bizer etc
> 
> ** industry: global players interested in bringing LOD  - we at KIT had 
> various meetings on this topic with SAP and could ask Lutz Heuser, Head 
> of SAP Research, to join as a speaker  - other companies might be Yahoo, 
> Google, Microsoft.

How about IBM, they have quite positive attitude towards everything that 
is open, I have some contacts as well.

> ** policy makers: probably John Sherridan  is already on the list of 
> potential speakers. We could get a speaker from the German government, 
> with whom we've been discussing about LOD over the last months.
> 
> ** data providers: national libraries, Eurostat, and many others.