Jo

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Jo Walsh is a free software hacker and occasional 'software artist' with interest in the semantic web, web standards, spatial information systems, collaborative planning and user controlled infrastructure.

She is a software artist often living in London. She works on the intersection between the semantic web, GIS, bots and wireless networks, helping build different open source software projects to augment the semantic web and bring knowledge representation to more people. She is a co-author of "Mapping Hacks" and a self-appointed organiser of the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures.

The University of Openess is a self-institution in East London whose Faculty of Cartography site is hosted at http://www.frot.org/.