I have been involved with Information Technology for over 20 years. My commercial background includes senior management roles in software development, research and consultancy businesses. I have a passion for processes and innovation and have been involved in both start-ups and in transforming large organisations to function more effectively. It was, perhaps, this vision for using technology as a tool to achieve more effective processes that got me interested in how ICTs could be used more effectively in civil society.

Professionally, I'm Managing Director Wairua Consulting Limited, which provides research, evaluation and consultancy focussing on social and economic transformation, with a strong emphasis on the effective and strategic use of ICT in business, government and civil society.

My community ICT background is an advocate, activist and researcher. I've been involved in a number of community technology projects, ranging from instigation and strategy to research and evaluation. I'm Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Government's Digital Strategy Advisory Group and I was the founding chair of the Waitakere eDemocracy Group (WeDG). I chair the WaitakereOnline Editorial Board within Waitakere City Council and I'm a Trustee of the Work Raft Trust (a charitable trust working on community ICT projects) and the CITRUS Trust (New Zealand Centres for IT Research).

I'm on the interim advisory board of the Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN), the committee of CIRN Victoria and a member of the Association of Internet Researchers.

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