Ambassadors
Deirdre Lee was a Research Associate in the eGovernment Domain at Insight-NUIG (formally DERI). Her main research interests include Open Government, Linked Open Data, eParticipation, and Semantic and Social Web technologies. There Deidre has participated in many EC projects, including co-ordinating the EC CIP ICT-PSP project ‘Puzzled by Policy: Helping you be part of the EU’ and is the technical coordinator of the EC project ‘Linked2Media’. She is also very active in the Irish and international Open Data community. Deirdre is a participant in the W3C eGovernment Interest Group and the W3C Government Linked Data Working Group. She has published many papers in scientific journals and conferences and has served as a program committee member for conferences and a technical committee member on standardisation bodies.
In January 2014 she has founded Derilinx, which helps public-sector organisations harness the full potential of data through the secure sharing of Linked and Open Data.
