Tim Kelsey is the first executive director of the Government of the Great Britain on the issues of data transparency and openness. His appointment in January, 2012, emphasizes the adherence of the Prime Minister David Cameron to make the transparency a central priority of the British Government, a factor promoting to the rise in the responsibility and efficiency of the public services, to the social and economic growth.
Tim is an active supporter of the popular concept of knowledge revolution in the public services of the Great Britain and in 2000 he became one of the founders of “Dr. Foster”, a company which was the first to start the publication of the information obtained by inquiry of patients in the sphere of public health services and has been included in the top ten of the most fast-growing private companies in Great Britain.
Tim is an internationally recognized expert holding a nontraditional sight at how digital and social media resources can change the consumer experience of a client – and a patient – in the public services. In 2007 he initiated the national internet information service in the sphere of public health services “NHS Choices” (www.nhs.uk) that now serves about 14 million users monthly. In 2010 he joined “McKinsey & Co” and headed the development of consumer information strategy in the public services.
In 2012 Tim was granted with the title “A Reformer of Year”. He is a member of the National Council of Quality of NHS and a trustee of “Nuffield Trust”.
Prior to “Dr. Foster” Tim was a journalist of a national newspaper and a television reporter. He worked at “Independent” and “Sunday Times”, and also at “Channel 4” and BBC.
Beth Simon Noveck
Beth Simon Noveck worked at the White House as the director of the initiative “Open Government” of the White House and was its founder and deputy technical director of the USA (2009-2011) where she was responsible for the development and coordination of the governmental innovative policy of the administration of President Obama. Prime Minister Cameron has recently appointed her a senior adviser of “Open Government”.
She worked in the reforms group of Obama-Biden and was a voluntary adviser of the campaign “Obama for America” on the issues of technology, innovations and the governmental reform. Professor Noveck is arranging the forthcoming annual meeting of “Club De Madrid” bringing together former presidents and prime ministers.
Professor of Law at the Law School of New York and a guest professor of communications at Stanford University Dr. Noveck is a leading expert in institutional innovations.
John and Kathrin T. MacArthur’s Foundation allocated Professor Noveck a grant for the development of the agenda of interdisciplinary researches concerning the impact of digital networks on institutes, and also the areas of using such technologies to enhance the democratic standards. She founded the seminar “Democratic Project”, the Institute for the development of legal, political and technological systems of cooperation stimulation. A lawyer by education and a computer specialist by interests she considers a intuition challenge as a series of solvable project tasks. Among other projects she developed and organized the first expert network of the US Government. She was awarded with a new grant from Alfred P. Slone’s Foundation and is now working with her colleagues on the project “ORGPedia”, a platform to gather and visualize the public data on corporations. Dr. Noveck founded the conference “State and Games”, the first conference on vodeogames, virtual reality and community.
A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Schools of Law, she was called by the magazine “Fast Company” one of the one hundred most creative people in business, by the newspaper “Politico” – one of 25 persons changing game rules and by the internet media resource “Huffington Post” – one of the first women in the field of technologies. Her book “Wiki-government: How a Technology Can Make a Government Better, Democracy Stronger, And Citizens More Influential” (the publishing house “Brookings Institution Press”, 2009), issued this year in the Arabian and Chinese languages, and also in an audio version, and will be translated into Russian. She is an editor of “State and Games: Law, Games And Virtual Worlds” (the publishing house “NYU Press”, 2006). She was mentioned by major media editions ranging from “New York Times” to “Forbes”, is a contributor for “Cairns Blog” and “Huffington Post”, keeps a mircoblog in Twitter: @bethnoveck.
Themes:
- A state connected in a network
- The development of democracy
- The revolution of big data
- The creation of effective organizations with open innovations
- The movement “Open Government”
- The establishment of institutes
- Copyright, innovations and Internet
- Patents and the economy of innovations
- Who has stolen my avatar: the laws of virtual worlds?
Economy Professor of Harvard University, he holds a degree of a bachelor of Harvard University and a philosophy doctor of
Technology Institute. Before joining Harvard in 1991 he studied at Princeton and Chicago Business School. Shleifer worked in the field of comparative corporate governance, law and finance, behavioral finance, and also institutional economy. He has published four books, including “The Grabbing Hand” (with Robert Vishni), and “Inefficient Markets: the Introduction to Behavioral Finance”, and also more than one hundred articles. He was editor of a quarterly magazine on economy in 1989-1999, a magazine on economic prospects in 2003-2008, and deputy editor of magazines on finance and financial economy. Now he is an adviser of editor of a quarterly magazine on financial economy. Shleifer is a member of the econometric community and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1999 Shleifer was awarded with John Bates Clark’ Medal of the American Economic Association. According to RePEc Shleifer is a most quoted economist of the world
