Digital

I’ve spent my career designing and leading information systems, from open-source disaster management software used in Asia, the Pacific and the US, to regulatory platforms, data governance and environmental data science in New Zealand. Along the way I’ve become more interested in where digital tools don’t help, especially when the system is social rather than physical.

Essays

• Digital Twins: a journey through the hype cycle 2024
• The Complexity of Data in the Public Service 2024

Selected projects

• TAIAO environmental data science programme
  Data standards, policies and guidelines · 2020
• Analysis of small water supplies
  Geospatial analysis for Taumata Arowai and the Ministry for the Environment · 2020–21
• Cost Management Initiative, Ministry of Education
  Systems architecture, data governance, Agile delivery · 2019
• Drinking Water Online, Ministry of Health
  Led a team of 10 on a drinking water regulation platform · 2016
• B-Tune building tuning service, Beca
  Building data analysis for energy reduction · 2016–19
• Red Cross Resource Management System
  Used by 600+ people across the Red Cross network · 2011–14
• Timor-Leste Disaster Risk Management Information System, with UNDP
  2013
• Sahana Eden, open-source disaster management
  Director, Sahana Software Foundation · co-author of Sahana Eden: Essential Guide (2011)

Publications

• A Digital Twin of Water in Aotearoa New Zealand
  Water NZ Conference, 2019
• How Humanitarian Logistics Information Systems Can Improve Humanitarian Supply Chains
  ISCRAM, 2009
• Developing Databases for Disasters in Developing Countries
  ISCRAM China Workshop, 2007