Danny Budzak, Being Digital
Danny has been working with technologies for over 20 years. He began during the pre-history of the internet when he built community databases in libraries using videotext. He was one of the first local authority web editors and won a New Statesmen New Media Award for an online local democracy project. He was also a founding member of Newham Online, an innovative and integrated web project in East London.
Since 2003 he has been an independent consultant working on a range of national and local projects including customer relationship management, information management standards, information governance, procurement, research, user requirements capture and promoting the use of best practice.
The consultancy has recently expanded and is now offering a wider range of services. One of these is Shoebox, an online local history resource at http://www.shoeboxroadshow.com/
His interests are in how people appropriate technologies, and what the social and cultural impact of them are. At heart, a technophobe, he remains fascinated and infuriated by technologies in equal measure and records his thoughts at http://www.artofgov.com