Core team
Pauline Roche
Community Lead
Award-winning producer, journalist, broker and networker, Pauline holds a digital inclusion/literacy portfolio in the Birmingham voluntary, community, faith & social enterprise sectors; she produces/co-presents the weekly Dr Tech Show on YouTube, co-organises the UK Open Data Camp, is a member of the UK & Ireland Tech for Good organisers network, a trustee of West Midlands Funders Network and a NED of TechWM.
Gena Ng
Admin & Communications Officer
Having been in love with words and the digital world for most of her life, Gena began her career as an online news producer. Not one to shy away from challenges, she has taken on other roles across the public and private sectors that include digital marketing, corporate communications and teaching.
Project Advisory Group
The core team is further supported by an independent Project Advisory Group.
Dipali Chandra
Dipali is Secretary of the West Midlands Funders Network, Trustee of Birmingham Community Matters, and Regional Education Co-ordinator for the Workers Educational Association.
Kate Gordon
Kate has worked in the voluntary sector for many years in various roles from front line support to regional infrastructure. She is lo-tech but interested in how voluntary organisations can capture and present data, and use it to evidence impact and need.
James Bowles
Dr James Bowles is an Innovation Fellow at the University of Birmingham and a Consultant at Apteligen. In both roles he supports nonprofit organisations to use data to achieve their strategic aims. This encompasses a wide range of activities, from co-creating data strategies to advising on specific areas of data collection and use.
Laura Creaven
Laura is an experienced and award-winning communicator with a demonstrated history of working in marketing, events management, public relations and communications, both online and off. She is currently a Trusts Executive at St Basils charity.