This site has stuff on it that I wanted to put on the web, and that doesn’t belong anywhere else. Occasionally, I blog here.
Some people have heard of me because I wrote TellThemWhatYouThink.org, a site which aggregates central government consultations. I have many plans for it, but not much time to execute them: a classic tale. More recently, I founded my company, The Dextrous Web. I started the company because I wanted to help the government to use the web properly, and since early 2008 have been merrily working away for our clients, most of whom are in the public sector.
In the world of non-work, I serve as a non-executive director of the Open Rights Group, I’m a huge fan of MySociety and I’m trying to help get the Free Legal Web up & running. I went to university in Brighton and abortively attempted to do a PhD before deciding academia wasn’t for me. I now live in London with my fiancée and look forward to owning cats… one day am enjoying owning cats — woot!
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My Bio
Harry is a web geek and entrepreneur. He has a particular interest in the transformation of public services using the web, and his company, DXW, work exclusively on web projects for public sector organisations. DXW have worked with many and various parts of government including The Cabinet Office, The Department of Health, the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills and the Central Office of Information.
Harry is also responsible for TellThemWhatYouThink.org, a site that automatically aggregates central government consultation documents, and is the Vice Chair of the Open Rights Group, an NGO which campaigns to protect and preserve digital rights. He recently joined the board of FreeLegalWeb CIC, a project that makes the free legal resources on the web easier to find, read and understand.
In all of these organisations, Harry’s goals are to help make public sector information discoverable and resuable, push for reforms to copyright law, improve public services, make the process of public consultation more meaningful and make government easier to hold to account.
He thinks that the web has amazing potential to change the way government works for the better.
My public SSH key (only useful for me, really)
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