Simon Worthington Email & Phone Number

In the area of independent media and innovative web developments he has pioneered projects from social web tools like OpenMute’s FLOSS web tools ‘OmWeb’ to graphic design such as the mapping projects ‘The MetaMap’ (Thanks to Bucky) back in 2001 at the famous hacker festival HAL2001.He is currently (2009) heading OpenMute’s technology design team, leading a variety of cutting edge web projects including; web based Print on Demand and an online/offline alternative media distribution network. See development zone http://openmute.org for updates.MiniBar – Co-founder of London based Web 2.0 networking event, http://internetpro.meetup.com/10/ . Re:Transmission - Co-coordinator of event, London. http://retransmission.org.uk/ activist and human rights web video infrastructures network. UserLand – curator of ten stop UK tour, advocating FLOSS art practice, http://linkme2.net/9m . OpenMute – http://openmute.org/ founder of project and leader of design team on OMWEB web tools service. DMZ Media Arts London, festival and network group http://dmzlondon.net/ , group member and event steering group member. MuteMap, http://mutemap.openmute.org, project coordinator. Cartographic Congress, London, six week long festival, http://linkme2.net/bg , contributor and co-organiser. University of Openness (UO), London http://twenteenthcentury.com/uo/, self instituted educational group, co-founder and member of the Faculty of Cartography. Magnet http://magnet-ecp.org, world wide electronic cultural magazine publishers network, project member and collaborator. Picopeer, wireless network agreement http://picopeer.net, initial contributor and co-developer of draft agreement. YouAreHere, http://youarehere.3d.openmute.org, co-founded community mapping/wireless project. Xcom2002 event, London http://xcom2002.com, co-organiser in collaboration with NTK. The Metamap, Conceptualisation, research (HAL2001, hacker festival) and artwork http://www.metamute.org/node/5678 with my collaborator R*Specialties: Print on demand book publishing and other elecronic forms of publishing like eBook readers. Magazine publishing. Collaborative web publishing platforms. Independent and socially progressive media making. Graphic design and system design.