David Eaves

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A public policy entrepreneur, open government activist and negotiation expert David is retained by several governments to advise on open government and open data, works with two spin-offs of the Harvard Negotiation Project and advises businesses on open source strategies and community management.
If you are interested in having David give a talk his speaking engagements are handled through the Lavin Agency.
Follow him on Twitter: @daeaves

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What are you doing for Open Data Day 2014?

So, with much help from various community members, I am pleased to say we are starting to gear up for Open Data Day 2014 on February 22. From its humble beginnings of a…

Thoughts on the White House Executive Order on open data

As those steeped in the policy wonk geekery of open data are likely already aware, last Thursday the President of the United States issued an Executive Order Making Open and…

International open data hackathon 2011: Better tools, more data, bigger fun

International Open Data Hackathon Wiki now live

The wikiThe Open Data Day wiki (sans logo, so a little rough around the edges) is now live and ready for action.The wiki is where organizers can list the city in which they’ll…

Government and library open data using Creative Commons tools

International Open Data Day — An Update

Two years ago, I met some open data advocates from Brazil and Ottawa, and we schemed of doing an international open data hackathon. A few weeks later, this blog post launched…

Doing government websites right

Today, I have a piece over on Tech President about how the new UK government website—Gov.uk—does a lot of things right.I'd love to see more governments invest two of the key…

Mozilla measures interest in their open source projects using site metrics

David Boswell has a couple of interesting posts (here and here) about how he is using metrics to measure how effective Mozilla is at attracting and engaging people who express…