About Me

I run a .Net team for an ad agency by day and by night I work for a handful of Internet-related groups pressing for social and political change.

I am a director of mySociety Ltd and a trustee of UK Citizens’ Online Democracy, the charity that runs it. I'm a member of the Open Rights Group Advisory Council and also helped found FaxYourMP.com and NO2ID, used to co-ordinate Stand.org.uk and have worked with MakeMyVoteCount.

I can usually be found wasting what I laughably call “free time” playing with Flickr and contributing to the Wikipedia projects, which might explain why I still haven’t got round to making myself a website.
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OwenBlacker's Public Groups

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CC-Salon London100
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Democracy Geeks70
eCampaigning / eAdvocacy290
European New Media Conferences (english only)3166
European New Media Meetups (english only)2304
Flickr London820
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wikipedia521