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Visualising Europe’s Energy
For the last two weeks I’ve been working hard with some people at the Open Knowledge Foundation to make a new visual tool to make it easier to understand European energy. It was launched today to...
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Picturing processes
There has been lots of wonderful work to represent numbers in pictorial form. Pictures can help to show us how big things are, how much of something there is, how much one thing is compared to another,...
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Europe’s Energy wins a Silver Award at Malofiej 20
Europe’s Energy, a project I helped to create to put EU energy targets into context, has just won a Silver Award at Malofiej 20. The Malofiej Awards recognise innovative infographics from around the...
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Communicating Climate Change
Today the Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC), an independent charity “integrating research on climate change, energy and economics”, released a set of Climate Factsheets to help to communicate...
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Science, data and the public
The following is a short piece written for the Guardian Datablog about what the European Commission’s recent announcement on access to scientific data could mean for science and for public engagement...
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The UK’s new Lobbying Bill is a farce
The UK’s new Lobbying Bill will do nothing to fight the malign influence of big money in politics, I argue in a piece for Open Democracy.
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The Snowden leaks are about much more than state surveillance
My review of The Guardian journalist Luke Harding’s new book The Snowden Files in OpenDemocracy argues that the Snowden leaks are about much more than state surveillance.
View ArticleTalk on “Digital Transparency and the Politics of Open Data” at King’s...
I was invited to give a talk at a conference on the “Politics of Big Data” at King’s College London, which took place yesterday. I spoke about “Digital Transparency and the Politics of Open Data” and...
View ArticleTowards a New Politics of Public Information: From Opening Up Datasets to...
Today I’m giving a working paper exploring a politics of public information that goes beyond a focus on the disclosure of datasets and looks towards interventions into the data infrastructures through...
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Talks at “Policy-Making in the Big Data Era” conference, University of...
On Wednesday I will give three papers at the Policy-Making in the Big Data Era conference at the University of Cambridge. One paper will argue for a broadening of the politics of public information...
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New Report: “Open Budget Data: Mapping the Landscape”
How might changing the way that information about public money is organised, circulated and utilised in society shape the character of democratic engagement and political accountability in...
View ArticleInterview for The Guardian on Why Open Data Doesn’t Mean Open Government
I was recently interviewed for a piece in The Guardian about “Why open data doesn’t mean open government”. Here’s the section of the interview from which the article quotes: It is critical to remember...
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Making Climate Negotiations Public
This piece was originally published in Open Democracy on 9th December 2015. It was co-authored with Tommaso Venturini and Rufus Pollock. World leaders are currently gathered in Paris in order to...
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New Paper: “Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding: A...
A journal article on scholarly communication finances which I co-authored with Stuart Lawson and Michele Mauri is now online at the Open Library of Humanities. It is titled “Opening the Black Box of...
View ArticleNew Paper: “Open Data, Privacy and Fair Information Principles: Towards a...
A journal article which I co-authored with Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius and Mireille van Eechoud – both at the Institute for Information Law (IVIR) at the University of Amsterdam – has just been...
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Joining Advisory Board of LSE Impact Blog at London School of Economics and...
I’ve recently been invited to join the Advisory Board for the LSE Impact Blog, at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The blog is one of the leading publications exploring how social...
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Talk: “Data Infrastructure Literacy”, 4S/EASST, Barcelona
Today I’ll be giving a talk at at 4S/EASST in Barcelona about ongoing research on “data infrastructure literacy” by Liliana Bounegru, Carolin Gerlitz and myself. The abstract is copied below. This is...
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Prize Fellowship at University of Bath
This month I’ll be starting a new Prize Fellowship at the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath. The Prize Fellowships mark fifty years since the founding of the university in 1966....
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Panel on Data Infrastructures and their Publics at “Evidence and the Politics...
As part of my new role as Prize Fellow at the University of Bath, I’m organising a panel on data infrastructures and their publics at a conference on “Evidence and the Politics of Policymaking” this...
View ArticleWho Will Shape the Future of the Data Society?
This piece was cross-posted on the blog of the International Open Data Conference 2016, which takes place in Madrid on 6-7th October 2016, as well as on the Open Knowledge International Blog, the LSE...
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