# Hello from Mike Thacker, technical advisor at Porism

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**Created:** [April 29, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/hello-from-mike-thacker-technical-advisor-at-porism/41 "2021-04-29T17:03:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/hello-from-mike-thacker-technical-advisor-at-porism/41/1 "2021-04-29T17:03:26Z")

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I’ve worked closely with the Local Government Association (LGA) for many years on data sharing via open standards. Porism has developed tools to express ORUK in machine-readable ways and to expose and valid data feeds.

I advised suppliers to Blackburn, Elmbridge and Hull who have implemented ORUK in their service directories.

I’m keen to help with implementation queries where I can - preferably in this forum,