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21st February 2014 Washington DC, USA

Global Forest Watch: Fighting Deforestation with Satellites, Open Data, and Crowdsourcing

Satellites, open data, crowdsourcing – these are some of the hottest buzzwords in the tech industry right now. But these innovations aren’t just limited to Silicon Valley and start-ups – they have come to dominate much of our everyday lives. Each time we open apps like Yelp and Foursquare to find the closest Starbucks or […]

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28th August 2013 USA

by James Kariuki

Counsellor and Head of Politics, Economics and Communication Group

Dr King’s British Legacy

Today I will have the honour of representing the UK government on the fiftieth anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s historic “I have a dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial. I’ve represented my country at many big events in my 20-year diplomatic career, from G8 and UN Summits to the State of the Union […]

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30th July 2013 Washington DC, USA

Maeve Atkins

by Maeve Atkins

Communications Officer

Nostalgic for 2012: The Olympic Legacy

Nostalgia is defined as “a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period of place with happy personal associations.” With this weekend marking one year on, was I feeling nostalgic about the London 2012 games, which I experienced from more than 3,000 miles away? I most definitely was. While I couldn’t […]

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21st May 2013 Washington DC, USA

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by Eric Hepburn

HM Consul General and Counsellor for Corporate Services

On yer left!

What took place on Friday 17th May, had over 12,000 participants, seventy pit stops, offered free t-shirts and goody bags along the way as well as ‘commuter convoys”, yet was totally free? Answer: ‘Bike-to-Work Day’, Washington DC style. Embracing the life style on offer on the east coast of the USA, many staff from the […]

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22nd March 2013 Washington DC, USA

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by Amy English

Congressional Liaison for the Foreign and Security Policy Group

After YES: Falkland Islanders make sweeping tour of US

In land far, far away, a community of people sent an emphatic message to the rest of the world, definitively declaring their political status for the first time in history. “YES!” screamed from social media feeds on Monday 11 March, where the Falkland Islands announced their wish to retain their status as a British Overseas […]

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19th March 2013 USA

“Snowquestration” and Innovation

On 6 March, the Washington DC weather forecasters were calling for a large snowstorm, duly named the “snowquester”, due to the unfortunate timing coming immediately after sequestration took hold on federal budgets.  Unfortunately for my colleague from Atlanta and me, our long-awaited workshop on manufacturing innovation was set to take place the same day. As […]

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25th February 2013 Washington DC, USA

Brad Keelor

by Bradley Keelor

Senior Science and Innovation Policy Advisor

The Biggest Computer I’ve Ever Seen, and Why Sometimes 0 and 1 Just Ain’t Enough

When you work in international scientific collaboration, you sometimes take inspiration from bizarre sources. Like this 2008 Gonzales song “Working Together”: Last week, I had a UK high-performance computing group with me in DC, Pittsburgh and Chicago, and couldn’t get the song out of my head. The US Science and Innovation Network runs a lot […]

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19th December 2012 USA

Spencer Mahoney

by Spencer Mahony

HM Consul and UKTI Regional Director for the South East United States

Scotland – it never ceases to surprise me

I should confess that while I am not Scottish I would quite fancy being Scottish for a while. The Scots, like the Irish, are renowned for being people who love to live life to the fullest. They produce God’s finest water (Scottish whiskys are seeing their exports to the US and most others markets rocket […]

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14th November 2012

Robin Twyman

by Robin Twyman

Consul for Business and Government Affairs

Washington International Trade Association

I’ve just been given the huge privilege of becoming a board member of the Washington International Trade Association (WITA) , a well-respected non-profit, non-partisan DC-based organisation dedicated to robust discussions on international trade policy issues. I’ve been a member of WITA since my arrival here in July 2009, benefiting not just from its trade policy […]

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