About me

About me
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Digital futurologist and founder of Cubicgarden.ltd.
Using data and insight to change people’s lives for the better

I am exploring new opportunities, focused on the public service internet, ethical matching platforms, and re-imagining digital legacy..

I am hyperconnected, I focus on genuine conversations and long term relationships.
I value collaboration and projects using technology which explore a better future for everyone.
I design and work on policy for agency and autonomy, for people and communities.
I am a leader on the future of public service and use my inquisitive and curious approach to explore possibilities.
I’m adaptable, emphatic and respectful in my work and life as a whole.
I am respectful, highly visible leading from the front and empowering others around me.

Live projects


Machine readable wishes
Ensuring dignity, privacy and autonomy in death 

New digital connections
Eliminating societal loneliness with richer authentic for human connection 
Making profiles that are portable, autonomous and secure across platforms

Digital public spaces
Building global public spaces and services which are democratic and provide a social good


Services I offer

Future scoping of projects
The art of the digital possible, what's coming and how your project can benefit

Lecturing
Talking and speaker on our digital future

Workshops
Unlocking digital futures in your business

Consultancy
Using insight to find a path forward in a uncertain future

Service design
Building paths through-out a new or existing project

Declarative development
xHTML, CSS, JS, SMIL, XML, XSL, semantic web, linked data, schemas & ontologies design


Research spaces I’m involved in now

User profiles that are portable, secure across platforms
Data portability and private insight
Secure and genuine connections
Human data interaction - agency, legibility and negotiability
Ending loneliness and supporting intimacy
Data once we die
Perceptive & adaptive media
Taming LLMs for the public good
Beyond the traditional social networks/media
Substitutes for existing metrics