Thanks for visiting my blog.
Here you’ll find 125+ articles and nine reports I’ve written, mostly concerning my work to help public sector organisations innovate.
I’ve been lucky to work in a wide range of sectors during my career, including politics, big tech, education, fundraising, policy, government innovation and now the public sector.
I’m currently Director of the London Office of Technology and Innovation (LOTI), an organisation dedicated to helping London boroughs bring the best of digital, data and innovation to reform public services and improve outcomes for Londoners. You can follow our work on Twitter. I’m also a Board Member of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI), a government unit dedicated to enabling the trustworthy use of data.
Previously I was Director of Government Innovation at Nesta and Head of Technology Policy at Policy Exchange. In those roles, I had the chance to work with or advise senior officials in the United Nations, European Commission and national and local governments in the UK, Australia, Denmark, Dubai, France, Lesotho, Uruguay and Scotland to support their digital, data and innovation strategies.
Though much of my work involves technology and data, I’m a tech pragmatist, not an evangelist. Technology and data represent a very powerful set of tools and approaches, but they’re means to an end, and it’s the ends I care about. They’re also rarely the whole solution.
I see my role as helping governments to think differently about their problems and perhaps realise there are more doors open to them than they first thought.
I’m a regular writer and speaker on the theme of government innovation and am happy to consider article, media and speaking requests.
If you have ideas you’d like to share, feel free to get in touch via Twitter.