Since 2017 I have been Biodiversity Informatics lead for IMERSS, the
Institute for Multidisciplinary Ecological Research in the Salish Sea. I have been working to help communities
with different models for knowledge — expert naturalists, citizen scientists, and Indigenous individuals and
others — respectfully cooperate to share their knowledge of the natural world and be empowered
as stewards of their natural environment. Some visualisations I've produced can be seen on the IMERSS
portal.
The Malleable Systems Collective believes, as I do, that it should be as easy
to change software as it is to use it. We believe in widening the circle of those empowered to make decisions about
their own technology, through making it as easy as possible to understand and change it.
Between 2022 and 2024 I was a Solutions Network Member for CIFAR's
Data Communities for Inclusion
project, finding ways that self-employed women in India's SEWA cooperatives could effectively own their own
technological platforms. I developed a very low-cost spreadsheet-driven e-commerce platform for
SEWA Saamarth that allowed the members to advertise and sell vegetable products within the Federation.
I am affiliated with Lichen Community Systems, a Canada-based worker-led cooperative building technologies to support the arts, disability
and, non-profit and cooperative communities. Under this umbrella I have issued a manifesto for
Knitting Data Communities promoting an
ethic for groups of overlapping communities sharing data that concerns them.
Boxer is a highly interesting and ancient programming system which
closely conforms to Jonathan Edwards' definition of a substrate. In 2022 I chaired the
2nd international workshop dedicated to Boxer in the form of the
Boxer Salon hosted at
Programming 2022 at Porto. I also maintain a helpful index to the Boxer
literature.