As an active board member of this global non-profit organization, I am committed to ensuring its accountability and strategic success in its mission to empower everyone with open knowledge. I believe that open knowledge can help people collaborate to address local and global challenges, understand our world better, expose inefficiency and inequality, and hold governments and companies accountable. OKF contributes to this mission by advocating for a free, fair and open future, providing training… Show more As an active board member of this global non-profit organization, I am committed to ensuring its accountability and strategic success in its mission to empower everyone with open knowledge. I believe that open knowledge can help people collaborate to address local and global challenges, understand our world better, expose inefficiency and inequality, and hold governments and companies accountable. OKF contributes to this mission by advocating for a free, fair and open future, providing training and tools for open knowledge practitioners, and supporting our global network of partners and communities. Show less

Specialising in digital strategy, product, policy, leadership and interfacing between technology, people and process - with expertise in data, interoperability, standards, open data, open government, health, privacy and decentralised tech.

Leading efforts to address the critical and complex challenge to get thousands of systems and organisations within the National Health Service (NHS) communicating and working coherently together. This is essential for better, safer, faster care; a healthy diverse ecosystem of digital tools and continuous system improvement.

As co-founder of Redecentralize.org, I have been a leading voice and advocate for an open, fair, diverse and empowering web and net for over a decade. Redecentralize.org is a community movement and website that helped found and foster the decentralisation movement and promote alternatives to tech monopolies. It helped inspire dweb and numerous projects, kept thousands of subscribers updated with our re-digest, and brought awareness and people to the cause. I personally organised and ran… Show more As co-founder of Redecentralize.org, I have been a leading voice and advocate for an open, fair, diverse and empowering web and net for over a decade. Redecentralize.org is a community movement and website that helped found and foster the decentralisation movement and promote alternatives to tech monopolies. It helped inspire dweb and numerous projects, kept thousands of subscribers updated with our re-digest, and brought awareness and people to the cause. I personally organised and ran two wonderful sold out conferences in 2015 and 2019, as well as various meetups, to bring together experts and enthusiasts to debate, discuss and imagine a digital commons with power, choice and control for users. I helped promote decentralisation all over the world with keynotes, talks, blog posts, workshops and interviews (appearing at Mostfest, PyconUK, Empodera Live, RestFest, Ethereum meetups, OECD world forum, BBC Radio 4 and World Service, BBC Radio 5Live, Tech News Daily, The New Yorker, TechCityinsider, HackerNews, Economia Collaborative Procomú, PublicSpaces and others). Show less

Most recently delivered two projects (previously (2017-2018) wrote the technical and policy data standards for Dubai, then UAE, to support goverment digital transformation and data management):1. Assessment, gap analysis, framework and recommendations for core government data program - Primary Registers. Included case-studies on UK and Estonian government experiences.2. Research, development and write-up of the ‘Common Standards’ to underpin the decentralised public-private data… Show more Most recently delivered two projects (previously (2017-2018) wrote the technical and policy data standards for Dubai, then UAE, to support goverment digital transformation and data management):1. Assessment, gap analysis, framework and recommendations for core government data program - Primary Registers. Included case-studies on UK and Estonian government experiences.2. Research, development and write-up of the ‘Common Standards’ to underpin the decentralised public-private data exchange framework for Dubai organisations. Carried out user research, workshop, interviews with public and private sector stakeholders, technical and non-technical. Advised on governance framework and presented recommendations to Government directors - which led to the further work on Registers. Show less

Led one of the first UK data trust pilots within the ODI for Office of AI. We had a great launch party at the RSA and spent 3 months exploring what legal and governance structures facilitate greater data access and sharing while retaining trust.In addition helped the ODI and clients map and understand the digital identity landscape.

Led and established the Personal Data Exchange team - products, service and agreements to securely and simply access personal data across departments for streamlined service delivery. Involved presenting and coordinating with senior stakeholders, hiring up team, defining strategy, direction and objectives.

Promoted to lead the commercial wing of Open Knowledge, managing around 10 staff.Delivered on an ambitious sales and funding target for the 2014 year by August. Managed and oversaw team structure and incentives, project delivery, key client relationships, network building, brand, finances and projections. Won and delivered notable projects with the UK and Swedish government innovation agencies.Served on Open Knowledge's senior management team - forming and implementing the… Show more Promoted to lead the commercial wing of Open Knowledge, managing around 10 staff.Delivered on an ambitious sales and funding target for the 2014 year by August. Managed and oversaw team structure and incentives, project delivery, key client relationships, network building, brand, finances and projections. Won and delivered notable projects with the UK and Swedish government innovation agencies.Served on Open Knowledge's senior management team - forming and implementing the organisation-wide strategy, representing leadership to wider organisation and community, researching and proposing new initiatives, managing risk and representing commercial and product interests. Show less

Initiated the formation of an independent, sustainable and thriving self-governed ckan association by planning and implementing the mechanisms for its steering group, technical development group and content and outreach group. In addition: - Led presentations and workshops at conferences; running one to three hour ckan workshops and training, moderating high profile panels and giving the opening keynote in Brazil on how to build an open democracy with open data. - Planned, specified and… Show more Initiated the formation of an independent, sustainable and thriving self-governed ckan association by planning and implementing the mechanisms for its steering group, technical development group and content and outreach group. In addition: - Led presentations and workshops at conferences; running one to three hour ckan workshops and training, moderating high profile panels and giving the opening keynote in Brazil on how to build an open democracy with open data. - Planned, specified and oversaw the technical implementation of the open data census (index.okfn.org) - tracking the state of open data around the world. - Organised the Open Government Partnership Civil Society Day in London, October 2013. Show less

Oversaw and transformed CKAN into a professional world class standard for open data publishing and discovery. As the first non-developer hire, I led:- Product management: running the feature roadmap, specifying functionality, writing user stories, acceptance testing, overseeing and iterating on design. Initiated, managed and led the transition to CKAN 2.0 - a more streamlined, user friendly, clearer product with a brand new front end.- Business development: negotiated, won and closed… Show more Oversaw and transformed CKAN into a professional world class standard for open data publishing and discovery. As the first non-developer hire, I led:- Product management: running the feature roadmap, specifying functionality, writing user stories, acceptance testing, overseeing and iterating on design. Initiated, managed and led the transition to CKAN 2.0 - a more streamlined, user friendly, clearer product with a brand new front end.- Business development: negotiated, won and closed the majority of contracts, including relaunching the UK’s data.gov.uk site, an ambitious project to consolidate data.gov and move it to CKAN for the US as well as bid writing for the European Commission data portal tender.- Talks and evangelism: gave numerous talks and workshops on CKAN around the world, including in Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, France, USA, Poland, UK, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg.- Branding and communication: created the ckan.org promotional website, decided upon and added pricing plans, showcases and the key messages. Show less

As employee 5 of VC funded startup I managed numerous responsibilities including product management, user research, QA, specification writing and usability testing. Responsible for all outward company communication, which included: blog, product change updates, marketing and website copy, documentation, newsletters, Facebook page, Twitter account, customer development outreach phone calls and welcoming and follow up emails.

Worked within The Institute of Art and Ideas on the Philosophy and Music Festival at Hay-on-Wye.

Project managed 'Dynamic Pricing' (DP) which went live within four months of me taking it on.Role included: directing and scheduling work; planning and testing each stage; contacting, liaising and bringing on board external companies; marketing and promoting the project; overseeing development process of specialist software; presenting internally and externally on 'DP'; attending relevant conferences.

Co-wrote a paper investigating the viability of mobile money transfer systems for banking and remittance. Conducted a wide range of research: collecting and analysing data, one-on-one and conference call interviews with CEOs and key figures in topic area.