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International Open Data Day dawned bright and beautiful this year in Wellington.

In November 2016, Nick and I ran a service design workshop with Gisborne District Council, focused on introducing human-centred design…

Your elected members are there to represent your interests. But to do that, they need to show up at meetings.

How we’re looking after the participants at GovHack Whangarei

We’ve all felt the frustration of seeing things in our spaces which shouldn’t be there. Potholes, fly dumps, broken signage and…

Litter really annoys me. It’s not just that it is environmentally damaging and a horrible eyesore. It’s not because it also highlights the…

Dropping the jargon from my planning evidence on the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan

My journey through the underworld of planning regulations

Whangarei is gorgeous (but unmapped).

In the third week of February 2014, I did something that has never before been attempted in local government anywhere in the world. Using…

I have it on good authority that the average transport engineering conference is, … well, … fairly average. When I was first contacted by…

And so, I return once again to playing with maps.