A UK-based February 26 Future Internet meeting  |  February 8, 2010  

HP Labs' Nick Wainwright has been appointed Chair of the UK Future Internet Strategy Group, which will consider next-generation technologies, applications and services. They are going to hold a meeting on February 26^th in London - and it's free when you register.

There are many groups who are looking at ways to capitalize on the Internet or even look at mechanisms to steer organizational or governmental approaches based new capabilities. I mentioned a presentation I made to the mayor and city council of Toronto, where they had an initiative to make most of the city's information available on-line. It looks like the UK is doing a similar activity on a national scale. They are essentially trying to enter into the age of abundance for government data, trying to get value out of what already exists as well as new approaches.

Now the question for me is: "How are they going to address the attention issues for the constituants who use the data?" or are they going to provide the flexibility for the end user community to tailor notification to meet their needs. Naturally security and deriving individual's behavior will also be a concern.

Charlie Bess
The Next Big Thing blog