On 24 May 2004 Pollock founded in
Cambridge, UK the
Open Knowledge Foundation as a global non-profit network that promotes and shares open knowledge including open data and open content - information that is openly and freely available. In 2007 and 2009, Pollock published two important papers regarding the optimal
copyright term, where he proposed based on an economical model with
empirically-estimable parameters an optimal duration of 15 years, significantly shorter than any currently existing copyright term. He has held the Mead Research Fellowship in economics at
Emmanuel College,
Cambridge. In 2009, he was credited by web inventor
Tim Berners-Lee for starting the
Raw Data Now meme. In 2010 he was appointed as one of the four founding members of the UK Government's
Public Sector Transparency Board. In 2018 he published his first book The Open Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of the Information Age, making it openly available for download online. ==Bibliography==