Sir Nigel Shadbolt is chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

He is also one of the originators of the interdisciplinary field of web science; is the Principal of Jesus College Oxford; a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford; and a visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton.

Today Sir Nigel tells us the backstory on how the Open Data Institute was created thanks in no small part to an impromptu lunch between Sir Tim Berners-Lee and then U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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Stories from the Open Gov is a podcast published by www.reopengov.org and is dedicated to telling the stories about what Open Government & Open Data look like.

Your host is Richard Pietro, an Open Government & Open Data practitioner for the past 10 years. Listen and learn how Open Government & Open Data are becoming a reality!

MUSIC ATTRIBUTION - Introduction & conclusion

Singing Sadie - I Can't Dance

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