Judges and award ceremony for the Open Data Challenge
With just over a week left to enter the Open Data Challenge, we’re busy organising our fantastic panel of judges to help them to select the best entries to Europe’s biggest open data competition.
The prizes will be handed out in a plenary session at the first European Digital Agenda Assembly by Vice-President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes (who recently blogged about the competition here).
Following is a list of the judges for the competition who are confirmed so far (we will continue to add to this in the coming days!):
- Dániel Antal, Euractiv.hu (Hungary)
- Sören Auer, University of Leipzig (Germany)
- Brian Behlendorf, World Economic Forum (US)
- Omar Benjelloun, Google (France)
- Lorenzo Benussi, TOPIX (Italy)
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee, W3C (UK/US)
- Adam Bly, Seed Media Group (US)
- Jacob Bøtter, We Mind (Denmark)
- Victoria Anderica Caffarena, Access Info Europe (Spain)
- Laura Creighton, Investor (Sweden)
- Bastiaan Deblieck, TenForce (Belgium)
- Juan Carlos De Martin, NEXA Centre (Italy)
- Anke Domscheit-Berg, Government 2.0 Netzwerk Deutschland (Germany)
- Herve Dupuy, European Commission (EU)
- David Eaves, Advisor to the Mayor of Vancouver (Canada)
- David Kitzinger, Szabad Adat Alapítvány (Hungary)
- Peter Krantz, Department of Commerce (Sweden)
- Henri Laupmaa, Open Data Estonia (Estonia)
- Tom Lee, Sunlight Foundation (US)
- David McCandless, Information is Beautiful (UK)
- Nataša Pirc Musar, Slovenian Information Commissioner (Slovenia)
- Séverin Naudet, Etalab (France)
- Kaisa Olkkonen, Nokia (Belgium)
- Olav Anders Øvrebø, University of Bergen (Norway)
- Antti Poikola, ePSIplatform (Finland)
- Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
- Thomas Roessler, W3C (Luxembourg)
- Simon Rogers, Guardian (UK)
- Juliana Rotich, Ushahidi (US)
- Marietje Schaake, MEP (Netherlands)
- Alek Tarkowski, Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska (Poland)
- Julian Todd, ScraperWiki (UK)
- Andy Updegrove, Open Forum Academy (UK)
- Andrew Vande Moere, Infosthetics (Belgium)
- Sascha Venohr, Zeit Online (Germany)
- Richard Wallis, Talis (UK)
- Anthony Williams, Author of Wikinomics (UK)
- Ton Zijlstra, ePSIplatform (Netherlands)
