'Making an Open Information Age: Law, Politics and Economics' - Rufus Pollock: CIPIL Seminar

Dr Rufus Pollock is Founder and President of Open Knowledge, an international non-profit using advocacy, technology and training to unlock information and see it used to create insight that drives change. He was formerly a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and a Mead Fellow in Economics at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge and remains an Associate of the Centre for Information and Intellectual Property Law at Cambridge. He is an adviser on open data to several governments and has worked extensively as a scholar, activist and technologist on the social, legal and technical challenges surrounding the creation and sharing of knowledge. Rufus gave an evening seminar entitled "Making an Open Information Age: Law, Politics and Economics" on Wednesday 11 May 2016 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk