Owen Blacker

I’ve been building websites commercially since the mid-1990s and involved in civic tech, digital liberties and campaigning for most of my adult life.

As well as a day job in tech, lived experience of invisible disabilities and growing up as a queer man during the AIDS Crisis mean that I’ve always had an interest in diversity, equity and inclusion.

I helped found mySociety and Open Rights Group and I’ve been a trustee/director for both. In what I laughingly refer to as “free time”, I am an avid Wikimedian and part of the governance team for the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group.