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David Burton

David Burton

Seeing Hiroshima

Yesterday was the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb. I was lucky enough to be able to visit the Peace Museum there in 2016. I wrote…

Aug 6, 2020

Aug 6, 2020

David Burton

Explain your @ — @idiotgrace

@idiotgrace has been my @ for some time. I’m not sure why it seemed good to me back in 2009, but last year, as I hit the 10-year mark of…

Mar 1, 2020

Mar 1, 2020

David Burton

Alongsiders Weeknotes: Episode 1

I’ve been thinking about weeknotes for a while, inspired by different people (but especially people working in local government in the UK)…

Dec 11, 2019

Dec 11, 2019

David Burton

People Aren’t Browsers: Why We Have a PDF Problem in the NGO Sector

NGOs love PDFs. Almost every social change project I’ve worked on in the last 9 years, across every sector, has created, as one of its…

May 9, 2019

May 9, 2019

David Burton

Designing a chatbot for civic engagement

This is a story all about how we made a (prototype) chatbot to help Cambodians engage with their local government, what we learned, and…

Apr 17, 2019

Apr 17, 2019

David Burton

The writer gets over himself: finding a good tone of voice in NGO communications

Learning to write in your organisation’s voice is hugely important if you’re an NGO communications professional. I’ve been creating a lot…

Oct 10, 2016

Oct 10, 2016

David Burton

The good cynic: getting startup stuff done by asking awkward questions

I was recently part of a planning meeting for a hackathon. I love hackathons. The idea of getting everyone together in a room to do awesome…

Aug 7, 2016

Aug 7, 2016

David Burton

Post-Dignity Design and how to avoid it in international development UX

A great piece of longform writing was published at Real Life last week, coining a term I think is incredibly important to tech companies…

Aug 1, 2016

Aug 1, 2016

David Burton

David Burton

International development specialist, human-centred designer and co-founder @getglean; witty final item in bio pending.

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