Paul Brownell

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Washington, DC

Paul Brownell is EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Public Policy Director for Red Hat. While currently located in Europe, he previously led Dell’s Federal Government Affairs team in Washington, DC. He also represented the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and the American Electronics Association (AeA) before the US government. Paul splits his time between Geneva, Switzerland (where he lives), Brussels, and other EMEA capitals.

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Best of Opensource.com: Government

The main question before governments today is not whether to use open source, but how.

EU digital policy moves into public comment phase

As reported in an article on Opensource.com in May, the European Commission (EC) this spring released its Digital Single Market Strategy (DSM), which provides a broad…

A call to policy makers: Open source is where innovation is happening

The impact of technology on society and the economy continues to excite and challenge all of us. Policy makers are no exception. Their objective—writ large—is to put in place…

European Union's 5-year roadmap for IT and open source

After months of preparation, the European Commission (EC) released its broad 5-year roadmap in early May for information and communications technology (ICT) policy, the…

International open data hackathon 2011: Better tools, more data, bigger fun

You can now petition the European Union to 'fix my document'

Last fall, Open Forum Europe (OFE) initiated an effort to help the European Union (EU) institutions live up to their commitments to support open document formats when…

Where new European Commission leaders stand on open source

At this writing, the European Parliament is wrapping up committee hearings and votes to approve or reject the proposed slate of new European Commissioners and Vice Presidents…