A writer & editor working in museums, publishing & digital culture R&D, with long experience in cultural programming, the journalism of conflict, and public advocacy. I am a skilled freelance fundraiser & project manager, currently researching digital information ecosystems.
Exploring built digital media information spaces; unnatural ecosystems where humans seek to live sustainably & well.
Creative information project research & development for 'small media', and arts, cultural & museum sector partners.
Delivering all kinds of media, cultural & technological projects; drawing on years of personal contacts, expertise & experience.
A digital media lab for small publishers and a creative advocate for free expression rights between the virtual, the real, and the actual.
Leading new reorganisation & sustainability programmes
New programmes & projects for media & cultural organisations.
Development strategies for digital news verification tools & practices
Defending free expression rights in the world’s toughest corners
Opened IWPR's first award-winning multilingual online news service
Digital Media MA with distinction, in Technology & Cultural Form
Politics MSc, in Nationalist & Ethno-Religious Conflict Studies
Specialist training for high calibre BAME potential board members
Level Four BTEC certificate in Surviving Hostile Regions
The claims of the complicit – that they acted on information available at the time, and then only to uphold the authority of the UN – is not a defence.
The topologies of data as shifting territories of conflict, infinitely routed between constituent nodes of information – a great place for a reporter to stake out a beat.
Hacker culture wants to help defend human rights & free expression. Yet why is it that the people who need it most resist their shiny new technology?
The ambition of Hacks/Hackers Connect was sky-high: to stimulate a stronger entrepreneurial community within the UK news industry.