I have led the campaign for better open data in Scotland / UK for many years, initially within local government, and for the last 5 years from civic society. I have written extensively about open data. I co-founded and run a charity - Code The City - which uses tech and data for social good. It runs four hack events each year. It also runs the Scottish Open Data Unconference, which I initiated in 2020. I was for five years on the board of Democracy Club a UK CIC which uses government and crowd-sourced open data to improve access to democracy. I was on the steering group for Stirling University's Data Commons Scotland project. I was one of the authors of the Scottish Government’s Open Data Strategy 2015. I am an ambassador for Open UK as well as for The Data Lab in Scotland. As part of the Open Government Partnership for Scotland I was the civic lead for commitment three - access to information and data. I am also a Wikimedia UK trainer where I specialise in training in Wikidata, a graph-based linked open data platform with over 100million items.