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 created TellThemWhatYouThink.org, a site that automatically aggregates central government consultation documents. His company, The Dextrous Web, helps public sector organisations to get things right on the web. They have worked for 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 the Vice Chair of the Open Rights Group, an NGO which campaigns to protect and preserve our digital rights, and is on the board of FreeLegalWeb CIC, which is a project that makes the law easier to find, read and understand.
In all of these organisations, Harry is particularly interested in making public sector information discoverable and resuable, reforming copyright law, making the process of public consultation more transparent and meaningful and making Government easier to hold to account. He thinks that the Internet 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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