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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Two reasons I love blogging: Helping out great communities

Non profits and governments...this is how open source works: If someone is doing something that is of value to you, help make it better. There have been two great examples of…

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

Solving the common standards problem in the open data space

Last year during my Open Government Data Camp keynote speech on The State of Open Data 2011 I mentioned how I thought the central challenge for open data was shifting from…

International open data hackathon--It’s coming together

A number of things have started to really come together for this Saturday, Dec 3rd. I've noticed a number of new cities being tweeted about (hello Kuala Lumpur & Oakland!) and…

The state of open data 2011

What is the state of the open data movement? During my opening keynote at the Open Government Data Camp (held this year in Warsaw, Poland) I sought to follow up on my talk…

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

Last year, with only a month of notice, a small group passionate people announced we'd like to do an international open data hackathon and invited the world to participate. We…