Sebastian Hellmann Philipp Frischmuth Soren Auer Daniel Dietrich Rufus Pollock Programme Committee The programme committee for OKCon 2011 represent expertise from the wide range of academic research and practice OKCon topic areas will cover. It is of great importance that all Working Groups of the Open Knowledge Foundation are represented in the programme committee and at OKCon 2011 itself. The experts of the committee will be grouped around the topic areas of OKCon.
Sebastian Hellmann, Universitat Leipzig (Germany), OKFN Working Group Coordinator for Open Data in Linguistics Philipp Frischmuth, Universitat Leipzig (Germany)
Rufus Pollock, University of Cambridge, member of OKFN Board of Directors (UK)
Stefano Costa, Universita di Siena, OKFN Working Group Coordinator for Open Data in Archaeology and Italy (Italy) Claudia Muller-Birn, Freie Universitat Berlin (Germany) Tim Hubbard, Board of Management representative for Bioinformatics at Sanger Institute and Member of the OKFN Advisory Board (UK) Puneet Kishor, The Carbon Model Team, University of WisconsinMadison and Science Fellow, Creative Commons (USA) Adnan Hadzi, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK) Peter Murray-Rust, Panton Principles, Open Bibliography, Open Thesis (Cambridge, UK) Christian Chiarcos, Applied Computational Linguistics Lab, University of Potsdam (Germany) Jim Pitman, Director Bibliographic Knowledge Network Project and Professor of Statistics and Mathematics University of California (USA) Adrian Pohl, North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz), Coordinator of the OKFN Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data (Germany)
Tariq Khokhar, Open Data in Development Working Group. Analyst at aidinfo, trustee of Bond and working on the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI).
Chris Taggart, developer of OpenlyLocal OpenCharities and member of UK Govt Local Public Data Panel (UK)
Ton Zijlstra, Community Steward at epsiplatform.eu, consultant on complex change processes and informal learning, FabLab Foundation BeNeLux (Netherlands) David Bollier, author and activist on the commons, blogger at Bollier.org, Principal with Commons Strategy Group, Partner in Commons Law Project (USA) Anne Fitzgerald, Queensland University of Technology (Australia) Daniel Dietrich, Technical University Berlin, OKFN Working Group Coordinator for EU Open Data & Open Government Data (Germany)
Ignasi Labastida i Juan, O ce for Knowledge Dissemination, Universitat de Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) Ian Ibbotson, Director of Knowledge Integration (UK) Andrea Goetzke, newthinking, all2gethernow (Germany) Stefan Meretz, computer scientist, commons advocate, blogger at keimform.de (Germany) Wouter Tebbens, President Free Knowledge Institute ; Director Free Technology Academy (Netherlands/Spain) Silke Helfrich, author and activist on the commons, blogger at www.commonsblog.de and www.gemeingueter.de, Principal with Commons Strategy Group (Germany)