Julian is co-founder and CEO of Open Data Manchester CIC, an organisation that seeks to help organisations and communities understand and use data appropriately.
He is a passionate advocate for digital technologies that can help build more resilient communities, develop new forms of economic activity and give people a stake in the process of governance and decision making. At present he is working on the co-designed Declaration for Responsible and Intelligent Data Practice for Greater Manchester as well as developing the ODI supported data cooperative model for small energy cooperatives.
