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Surveillance state 'a good thing'...programme continues. Mr Kelsey claimed Prime Minister Gordon Brown had recently sent a memo to government departments ordering more data sharing after a briefing by his adviser Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Mr Kelsey stressed greater use... In this article: Jack Straw, Labour Party, Joint venture, Audit Commission, Tim Berners-Lee, and Gordon Brown |
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Daily Mail | October 17, 2009
BLACK DOG: Ed Miliband puts Jack Straw in the firing line
...age Cabinet young gun Ed Miliband, fast emerging as front-runner to succeed Gordon Brown, made a monkey of veteran Labour leadership rival Jack Straw when worldwide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee made a Downing Street presentation. 'It's...
In this article: Jack Straw, Ed Miliband, Richard Dannatt, Labour, Banana, Royal United Services Institute, Tories, and Ivan the Terrible
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Read/WriteWeb | August 05, 2009
Journalism Needs Data in 21st Century
...of government information. He asked Sir Tim personally "to help us drive the opening up of access to Government data in the web over the coming months" and appointed Berners-Lee an official governmental adviser. By now, neither of these...
In this article: Tim Berners-Lee, TED, The Guardian, Barack Obama, and UK
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Guardian Unlimited | 3 days ago
Breakfast briefing: Free Our Data's big win, Apple's big seller and more
...free for use without restriction. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who was recruited to help open up government data in June, has also enlisted Brown's help to solve the "derived data" problem - which was that if you created something and used OS maps...
In this article: Apple, Marissa Mayer, Wikileaks, Itunes, Liam Byrne, Stephen Timms, Iphone, and Twitter
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BBC News | June 25, 2009
Cameron pledges 'right to data'
...it to spy on minor offenders. Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently recruited Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the worldwide web, to look into opening access to more government data. This page is best viewed in an...
In this article: David Cameron, Labour, Tories, Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, Tim Berners-Lee, Imperial College, DNA Database, and Freedom of Information Act
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Ordnance Survey maps to go free online
...gain of GBP156m. Today the union representing staff at the OS stated that Brown's pledge was in "complete contradiction with the OS's own plans to explore commercial opportunities and find new ways of raising revenue". Berners-Lee is...
In this article: Ordnance Survey, Southampton University, Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web, Revenue, Cambridge University, Highways Agency, and Nigel Shadbolt
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PC World: Latest Technology News | June 13, 2009
Web Inventor Helps UK Government Open Access
Web Inventor Helps UK Government Open Access U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has appointed Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee to improve access to government data, including MP expenses. Berners-Lee will lead a review on how the Government...
In this article: Tim Berners-Lee, UK, and World-Wide Web
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Web creator job 'beyond politics'
...been asked to open up access to government data Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told the BBC that the job he has been given by Gordon Brown is an important one that goes beyond party politics. The inventor of the world wide web has been asked by...
In this article: Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web, Boston, California, BBC, and United States
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Web inventor to help No 10 open up government data
...to help No 10 open up government data Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, will help the British government to make its data more easily available online, Gordon Brown said today. "So that government information is...
In this article: Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web, TED, JavaScript, CERN, Switzerland, and US
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James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party. Brown became Prime Minister in June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming leader of the governing Labour Party. Immediately before this he had served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour government from 1997 to 2007 under Tony Blair.
Brown has a PhD in history from the University of Edinburgh and spent his early career working as a television journalist. He has been a Member of Parliament since 1983; first for Dunfermline East and since 2005 for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. As Prime Minister, he also holds the offices of First Lord of the Treasury and the Minister for the Civil Service.
Brown's time as Chancellor was marked by major reform of Britain's monetary and fiscal policy architecture, transferring interest rate setting powers to the Bank of England, by a wide extension of the powers of the Treasury to cover much domestic policy and by transferring responsibility for banking supervision to the Financial Services Authority. Controversial moves included the abolition of Advance Corporation Tax (ACT) relief in his first budget, and the removal in his final budget of the 10 per cent "starting rate" of personal income tax which he had introduced in 1999.
After an initial rise in opinion polls, Brown's time as Prime Minister has seen his approval ratings fall and the Labour Party suffer its worst local election results in 40 years. Despite public and parliamentary pressure on his leadership, he remains leader of the Labour Party.
- Birth Date:
- February 20, 1951
- Birthplace:
- Govan, Glasgow, Scotland
- Religion:
- Church of Scotland
- Nationality:
- British
- Spouse:
- Sarah Brown
- Residence:
- North Queensferry
- University Attended:
- University of Edinburgh
- Political party:
- Labour
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