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Author: Amanda Brock


Amanda Brock
4th July 2020

OpenUK Awards and Kids Competition Update

You may have noticed we have been busy recognising UK Leadership of Open Technology in the OpenUK Awards and building future leadership not only with...

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Amanda Brock
23rd June 2020

Announcing a special Awards Partnership with FINOS

“OpenUK 2020 FINOS Award” – Outstanding Contribution to Accelerating Open Source in Finance “We’re really excited to announce we are partnering with FINOS to be...

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Amanda Brock
17th June 2020

The Door is Open for our Awards

2020 is unlikely to be the year you expected. We have all been locked down – and worn down – with the events that have...

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Amanda Brock
22nd May 2020

Gnome settles Patent litigation: Amanda Brock, CEO OpenUK interviews Neil McGovern, ED of Gnome Foundation and Board Director at OpenUK

“Firstly, Congratulations Neil and very well done. This is probably the best possible result Gnome could have had right? “I believe so, yes. We have...

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Amanda Brock
14th May 2020

Open Innovation in the private sector

Businesses embracing the sharing of data are seeing tangible benefits for their organisations and across their entire sectors, more should follow suit, here’s why and...

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Amanda Brock
20th March 2020

Bishop’s Stortford College’s Amy tells us about winning “AWS GetIT”

As kids head home from a last day of school in uncertain times, we are pleased to hear from Amy of Bishop’s Stortford College. As...

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Amanda Brock
12th March 2020

Covid-19 and OpenUK

Coronavirus remains a great unknown in our planning of 2020. As a tech community, financial ebbs and flows and travel bans aside, we are used...

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Amanda Brock
9th March 2020

OpenUK announces national schools competition using MiniMU Glove, supported by Red Hat

PRESS RELEASE 9th March 2020 – London, UK – OpenUK, the Open Technology advocate organisation for Open Data, Open Source Hardware and Open Source Software...

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Amanda Brock
4th March 2020

Spring Forward into Open Technology, CEO’s Round Up

Looking at the snow in London in the last couple of days, it’s hard to imagine that Spring is around the corner. But as I...

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Amanda Brock
12th February 2020

January Pinks – Amanda’s CEO Round Up

It’s been a busy old January. I am not sure why and am left wondering if it is a ripple in the pool of Brexit....

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