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Joseph Potvin

University of Cambridge

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About

As co-founding Executive Director of Xalgorithms (2016-Present), Joseph is responsible for the "Data With Direction Specification (DWDS)" design, theoretical research and use case integration. His 30-year career in applied economics and free/libre/open informatics involved inventive business analysis and design for companies, governments, multilaterals and foundations. He has worked as a consultant to the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility, the International Development Research Centre, and for a decade he led the formalization of free/libre/open licensing across the Canadian Government, six of those years on staff with Treasury Board Secretariat. The title of his doctoral thesis at U Quebec is "Data With Direction", and he holds an MPhil from Cambridge University (Geographical Economics), and an Honors BA from McGill (Economic and Political Systems).

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Conflict Resolution, Democracy, Development, Environmental Policy, Federalism, Globalisation, Governance, Government, Integration, Policy Analysis, Political Economy, Political Methodology, Public Policy, Regionalism, Social Capital, UN, WTO, Analytic, Business, Constructivism, Freedom, Global, IMF, International, Internet, Investment, Post-Modernism, Post-Structuralism, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Qualitative, Quantitative, World Bank, Communication, Competence, Decision Making, Ethics, Experimental Design, Normative Theory, Peace, Policy Change, Policy Implementation, Big Data, Capitalism, Energy, Energy Policy, Policy-Making, Theoretical

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