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March 13, 2012 05:05 am

Jimmy Wales To Become UK Government Adviser


judgecorp writes "Wikipedia founder Jimmy wales is to become a U.K. government adviser on open government. The unpaid post, announced at SXSW, will see him contributing ideas on issues including the single government portal open.gov.uk. among other things. Wales has been an outspoken critic of some government intiatives in the U.S., including the SOPA act on copyright — whose British counterpart, the DEA, is already law."

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