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Jimmy Wales To Become UK Government Adviser

Posted by Unknown on Monday March 12, 2012 @04:08PM from the revision-wars-coming-to-a-government-near-you dept.

judgecorp writes "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is to become a U.K. government adviser on open government. The unpaid post, announced at SXSW, will see him contributing ideas on issues including the single government portal open.gov.uk, among other things. Wales has been an outspoken critic of some government intiatives in the U.S., including the SOPA act on copyright — whose British counterpart, the DEA, is already law."

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Re:Fucking wow. by lxs · 2012-03-12 23:50 · Score: 3, Interesting

Remember the fate of David Nutt? Goverment advisors are not supposed to actually give advice of have an opinion of their own.
Re:Fucking wow. by l-ascorbic · 2012-03-13 00:37 · Score: 3, Interesting

The UK govt has been surprisingly good about listening to advice from tech advisors. open.gov.uk itself is the result of advice from some guy called Tim Berners-Lee. The new gov.uk site is also a great sign of the government finally starting to get it.