Me now
(totally love this image of me getting a bit fraught at the Hay Festival UK Youth and Nominet Trust debate)
I run Rewired State and Young Rewired State and campaign to bring coding into mainstream education. Am co-founder of the Coding for Kids community and the initiator of The Silent Club. I am available for short pieces of consultancy during certain points in the year.
Top 100s
After two years of being classified as ‘Bubbling under’ by Wired, I have finally managed to crawl onto the Wired 100 at position number 89 and I am ridiculously happy about it, more than is polite!!
I am also rather chuffed to be in the Tech City 100
I am on the following things:
The London Mayor’s Digital Advisory Board
Design Council Advisory Board for the Working Well design challenge
Mozilla learning advisory group
BIMA executive
The writing and speaking page links to everything I have been saying in the media
All about me in The Next Women online magazine
TV, radio and speaking
I am happy doing:
- conference speaking
- radio, live or recorded (have done quite a few stints now on Radio 4)
- podcasts
- speaking on panels
- recorded TV
Bio for you to copy and paste if I am speaking at your event 
Emma is the founder of Rewired State and Young Rewired State: Coding a better country.
Rewired State is the largest independent developer network in the UK with over 1000 software developers and designers, bringing about digital innovation and revolution through rapid prototyping events (hack and modding).
Young Rewired State is its philanthropic arm with the challenge to find and foster every child driven to teach themselves how to code, introduce them to open data – creating a worldwide, independent network of mentored young programmers. Both networks work together to prototype solutions to real world problems.
She has recently been voted onto the Wired 100 list and Tech City 100, writes regularly for the Guardian and The Telegraph in the UK and on her own blog and is best known for her campaign: ‘Year 8 is too Late’ (encouraging girls into technology subjects) and relentlessly pushing the potential of open data.
Other useful stuff to know about me:
Coffee/Tea: white no sugar (prefer tea – prefer peppermint)
Wine: Red (Rose in Summer)
Snacks: Twiglets
Passion: Open Data: the un-mined seam of gold in the UK, young rewired state
CV: on linkedin
twitter: @hubmum
Security clearance: yes to SC level (plus immigration/security checked to Home Office standard)
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This is the result of one of those late-night online odysseys and how interesting it has become! I came across your work on a Google search for social media and democracy which I’m teaching to an A level class. I’m about to retire this summer, and the “we media” is a subject that has really caught my attention and makes me wish that I had control of the passage of time. Oh, how I’d love to be able to run with it for a while longer! It seems to me to be such an exciting development – one that is taking place almost unacknowledged, submerged as it is by mountains of dross as we gleefully post videos of ourselves “givin’ it some” as my son says. I’ve made a bit of a mess of replying to you elsewhere, but I want to say I’d be delighted to be involved in any future fora that address this issue and its fascinating potential. Thanks.
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I admire your passion and interest but I think (and its only my view) that coding/programming is a diversion. Why concentrate on that when the field of ICT is so much more than simply that? Sure you can engage and enthuse some through programming (it always fascinated me – I loved solving logic problems) but I suspect in any one class the number of people who have the aptitude or interest will be relatively small.
That you do need people with programming skills is a given and some (like me) may go on to wider and more senior roles within the industry but give them a broader education and experience and I think you could enthuse far more and potentially open their eyes to a multitude of differing roles within the industry.
Emma, saw this and thought of you: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/28/raspberry_pi/
Rapberry pi, sounds interesting, accessible and cheap – may be what you need to aim for?
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