THE DIGITAL APE

Sir Nigel Shadbolt is one of the UK’s foremost computer scientists. He is a leading researcher in artificial intelligence and was one of the originators of the interdisciplinary field of web science. He is Principal of Jesus College Oxford and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He is chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Both of them leading the development of the highly acclaimed data.gov.uk website. In 2010, he joined the UK government’s Public Sector Transparency Board — overseeing Open Data releases across the public sector. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow and former President of the British Computer Society. He was knighted in 2013 for ‘services to science and engineering’.

Roger Hampson is an academic and public servant. For 16 years, he was chief executive of the London Borough of Redbridge, which has a strong reputation for web-based innovation in service delivery, engagement of citizens, and the publication of data. He has also been a director of social services, an academic economist of social policy, and a research fellow at the Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent, the world leader in the promotion of efficiency in social and health care by the rigorous analysis of data. He is a non-executive director of the Open Data Institute. He has published on plain language; the economics of political advertising; community care; social services; and reasoning in public life.