Keynote on Data as a Service

Charles has been the champion of the ‘Free Our Data' campaign, which he co-founded in March 2006 along with fellow Guardian freelance journalist Michael Cross, with the aim of persuading government that non-personal datasets created by government-owned agencies and companies and organisations should be made available for free re-use without licence restrictions. Charles' opinions, articles and blogs have been instrumental in helping to influence free and unrestricted access to data.

PBBI will also be making key announcements and demonstrations at the MUGUKI conference, including a demonstration of its newly announced mapping and analysis application, MapInfo Professional 10.5, which supports many of the core competencies around location-based intelligence and DaaS. PBBI will also provide further details on its new DaaS strategy, offering the geospatial industry's largest data catalogue, which will make the sourcing, accessing and purchasing of location-based data as easy as using iTunes. The DaaS service will support leading GIS mapping and analysis applications, including MapInfo Professional 10.5, as well as applications from other GIS vendors. DaaS will initially be available to MapInfo Professional 10.5 customers through a catalogue browser, enabling them to search and access data online.