Roger Taylor - Transparency and the Open Society: Practical Lessons for Effective Policy

TRANSPARENCY AND THE OPEN SOCIETY

Practical lessons for effective policy

Roger Taylor and Tim Kelsye

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To our wives, Elizabeth Stubbs and Hilary Rowell, and our children for being able to see right through us and know us for who we are

Roger Taylor is an entrepreneur and writer. He is co-founder and chair of the Open Public Services Network at the Royal Society of Arts. His first book God Bless the NHS was published by Faber and Faber and was a Guardian best-seller. He cofounded Dr Foster, the healthcare information business that has pioneered transparency in healthcare and was one of the UKs fastest growing start-ups.

He is a board member of Ofqual, the exam regulator in the UK and a trustee of SafeLives, the domestic abuse charity. He has worked with governments, NGOs and leading media organisations globally on the use of open data and public reporting. He is a strong advocate for the role of greater transparency as a mechanism for improved public services and consumer protection. He is currently working with the Careers and Enterprise Company in the UK, a social enterprise working to help young people move successfully from education into work.

Roger began his career as a journalist working as a correspondent for the Financial Times in the UK and the US and, before that, as a researcher for the Consumers Association.

Follow Roger on twitter @RTaylorOpenData

Tim Kelsey was the British governments first director of transparency and open data. In 2012 he was appointed national director for patients and information in the National Health Service (NHS) the worlds largest unitary health system - a role which combined the functions of chief technology and information officer with responsibility for patient and public participation. At that time, he was also chair of the National Information Board and, in that capacity, led design of a new strategy for technology and transparency in English healthcare to 2020 which has been adopted by the British government as formal policy. In 2014 Tim was named one of the 500 most influential people in the UK by the Sunday Times.

In 2000, Tim was co-founder of Dr Foster, a company which pioneered publication of patient outcomes in healthcare. Before Dr Foster, Tim was a national newspaper journalist and a television reporter. He worked for the Independent and the Sunday Times, as well as Channel 4 and the BBC. He is author of Dervish: Travels in Modern Turkey, published by Hamish Hamilton and Penguin Books.

Tim Kelsey is now a director of Telstra Health, and lives in Melbourne, Australia. He is also a visiting professor in the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College, London.

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For giving us their time and wisdom in writing this book: Joel Adler, Prof. David Anderson, Paul Arnott, Prof. Ian Ayres, Ranajit Battacharyya, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Godfrey Boniventura, Ania Calderon, Risha Chande, Ana Christina Ruelas, Eduardo Clark, Martyn Day, Sam Eastwood, Prof. Paul Elliott, Nancy Fletcher, Prof. John Fox, Paul Freeman, Alex Gordy, Helena Hofbauer, Ellen Klaus, Tariq Khokar, Warren Krafchik, Prof. Julian LeGrand, Tim Leunig, Kati Lopez, Adriana Lukas, January Makamba, Fina Mango, Anthony Maskell, Caroline Mauldin, Nick Maxwell, Cassie McGoldrick, Jonas Moberg, Karin Mochan, Prof. Beth Simone Noveck, Juan Pardinas, Haydee Perez Garrido, Ashley Petrons, Rakesh Rajani, Marko Rakar, Anthony Richter, Joel Salas, Eric Schadt, Florian Schweitzer, Chad Smolinski, Amanda Spielman, Glenys Stacey, Martin Tisne, Alexandra Zapata Hojel, Enrique Zapata

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