Transcript of a talk I gave for The Public Sector Network’s ‘Virtual Event: Big Data & Actionable Analytics New Zealand’ event in April 2021. — As we all know, more data is available than ever before — from 2010 to 2020, the amount of data created, captured, copied and consumed…

building trust in Aotearoa My talk for the NZ Government Data Summit in Wellington, March 2020. Slides at https://www.beautiful.ai/player/-M1YN-6j6aoMefdJZEcB, published (like this content) under a CC-BY 4.0 International licence. Also published on Linkedin. Kia ora all — it’s an honour to be here :) I’m here today to talk about data trusts and other…

As humanity collects, stores, manages and uses ever larger amounts of data, it’s more important than ever to do it well. It means sharing and opening data wherever possible, and using it to tackle the challenges facing our civilisations and our planet. And that means sound data strategies and data…

Update: see the next in this series over on the Open Data Charter’s blog: Data trusts and trusting openness. Data stewardship’s a big deal. As we generate more data, which is more exploited by more companies and governments to further interests which definitely aren’t ours, the idea that data needs…

June 2017 Libraries are one of my very favouritest things ever. Always have been. Always will be. They’re one of the few true civic spaces left — anyone can come into them, and find a warm, dry place where they can interact with others, have quiet time, learn and share…

Written as a sort of flow-of-consciousness moment for Library Week in 2016. Reproduced here — sans editing I’d love to do — for accessibility and linky goodness purposes :) Libraries are extraordinary places. They’re community hubs, places of learning, places of knowledge, places of exploration, places of discovery, places of…

Update: read a newer, wider iteration of this piece, bringing in #opendata and the #openX community, at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-data-smart-cities-openx-community-aimee-whitcroft/ :) Last week, I was invited to kick off the start of Wellington City Council’s Our City Tomorrow speaker series. …

I love Trello. Well, to be most accurate, I love Kanban boards. They’re an intuitive way to organise tasks, and there’s almost endless variety in how one sets them up, and how they work. I use them for work, and also personal projects. For tracking, in real time, my work…

I think about accessibility a lot. Many people do :) It’s hugely important, but often ignored or put aside as a “nice to have”. And it’s a neglected part of far too many diversity and inclusion initiatives. It seems that many people find accessibility (a11y) a bit, well, inaccessible. They’re…