selected work
Since setting up in 2006 to help organisations utilise ‘new media’ as it was known then, I’ve worked with global corporations, NGOs, start-ups and micro businesses as well as co-founding and helping build new organisations. I’ve seen many trends come and go, but from the beginning I’ve always been mindful of how the use of technology interacts with society and democracy.
This has developed into creating practical/operational strategies that bring business goals, compliance, market needs, and the application of technology together. Partnering with leaders internally to develop and support teams to deliver; identifying the work that really matters, building processes to help teams work better together, and strengthening trust. Here is just a selection of this work.
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Access to most of the world’s data is restricted. This makes it hard to direct investment and action towards net zero. Icebreaker One is creating a web of net-zero data and developing trust frameworks to fix this, working closely with the energy, water, insurance and transport sectors. Considering the data and data governance requirements such as for effectively rolling out air-source heat pumps, EVs, decarbonising shipping and producing ‘green’ hydrogen. Working with the team from day one on how the organisation would deliver it’s vision. Leading organisational development, building an open, collaborative culture and lead it’s R&D.
In 2017 Frank and I founded (and continue to run) Corrick Wales & Partners. Frank has extensive professional software design and development experience, including for government, military and ecommerce. We identified that together we could bring a holistic approach to data protection for our clients that takes into account the organisation’s culture and what it aims to achieve, as well as it’s technology, processes and systems. In doing so, our work has expanded beyond the initial GDPR brief and now includes supporting organisations developing software and services for complex or high risk areas, such as mental health and diversity & inclusion.
Part of the launch team for the Open Data Institute in 2012, with responsibility for building their learning & training business, content and production team. At the time open data was a new area with low awareness, no existing market, no agreed learning curriculum and few potential trainers. In the first 8 months over 200 people were trained and international corporate clients gained within first year. Developed train the trainer programme to expand open data teaching globally and set standards. Set up and managed full service content, marketing, events and production team to communicate open data to wider audiences.
Represent.me (2014-2018) was an open online democracy platform with powerful data analytics that connected citizens with decision makers, and political representatives. Making public policy accessible so that people could have their say, and a citizen-first approach to data protection and publishing open data. We built a 20,000 strong membership, including over 100 politicians and prospective candidates, however we were unable to develop sustainable funding to maintain the service.
The Digital Britain Unconferences were a set of UK-wide, grass roots events that I architected, quickly set up in reaction to the April 2009 ‘Digital Britain Summit’. Their aim was to produce a representative ‘people’s response’ and gather set of positive, realistic contributions for the report. With a nod from the Digital Britain team that they were listening, within three weeks twelve unconferences had taken place from Glasgow to Truro in the south west and a report of the combined findings sent to government.
Playable Studios entertain and empower 6-10 year olds with fun games, experiences and stories. Their vision is to empower every child on their journey of self-discovery to be their wonderful selves. I worked closely with their creative director and team to take a data protection by design and by default approach so that every aspect of their work considered how children could have fun but also do so safely.
strategy | data | capability building 