Jerry Fishenden
MPhil BSc FBCS CITP FRSA FIMIS FIAP
Described as "one of the UK’s leading authorities in the world of technology" (source: Hitachi), Jerry is an experienced IT practitioner, with extensive experience of successful leadership and implementation. He is a co-founder and Director of the Centre for Technology Policy Research, a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics, a charitable Trustee of Leicester Arts Ltd, a Non-Executive Director of Phoenix Square, a member of the Policy Engagement Network, a member of the 80/20 Advisory Group, a member of the Open Rights Group Advisory Council, and a few other things too, including undertaking doctoral research at the Institute of Creative Technologies.
Jerry's popular blog on new
technology observations from a UK perspective (ntouk) can be found at
http://ntouk.com.
Jerry has worked in some of the most senior positions in the IT industry including as Microsoft’s chief technology officer; as Head of Business Systems for the chief financial services regulator in the City of London; as an Officer of the House of Commons, establishing the Parliamentary data and video Network at the Houses of Parliament; and as a Director of IT in the National Health Service (NHS).
He continues to works closely with key individuals and organisations across the UK, the media, analysts and professional associations to help guide technology policy, strategy and innovation. He also advises overseas governments and organisations on effective ways of using technology to enhance policy and services - and to accelerate innovation enabled by technology.
Jerry draws upon many years of firsthand, senior practical experience envisaging, managing and leading the development, implementation, delivery and maintenance of major IT change programmes. This has included work ranging from all aspects of IT staff management and development in both private and public sectors through to the delivery of multi-million pound new systems initiatives impacting millions of users. Amongst other projects, Jerry was the Lead Product Manager for the original development of the UK Government Gateway, a 12 million+ user system that provides the UK Government’s authentication and transaction handling services. He also put the UK Parliament on the Web and led the team that developed the first ever integrated data and video network, and associated services, for the House of Lords and House of Commons.
His experience and current workload covers a broad range of technology policy areas including cloud computing; privacy, security and identity; commercial and open source software; digital inclusion and accessibility; sustainability; standards; interoperability; innovation, local software economy and intellectual property rights; telecom and spectrum; e-Government; digital archiving/preservation; disaster response; and others, as the need arises.
Jerry's articles have appeared frequently in numerous
mainstream and trade publications, including The Financial Times, The
Scotsman, CIO magazine, The Register and Computer Weekly. He has appeared regularly on
national television and radio programmes, including BBC News 24, BBC Radio 4
and BBC Radio 5.
Jerry is the author of numerous published strategies and Whitepapers,
including
open government: some next steps for the UK (2010),
Towards the Digital State (2009) and
A Vision for Parliaments (released as part of the 2007
Government Leaders Forum in Scotland). He was also responsible for
Government Interoperability: Enabling the Delivery of e-Services
(2005),
Advancing with Technology, A Vision for Local and Regional Government
(2004), and
The Foundation for e-Government Services,
presented at the Government Leaders Conference in Seattle (2002). He is also
a co-author of
The
New World of Government Work Whitepaper (2006), which aims to
stimulate discussion on some of the most profound challenges confronting
government and society - that of a global connected world and an ageing
society.
Recent public, conference and other appearances and events include:
hosting a roundtable of CIOs, Chief Executives and advisers considering the future direction of IT in large, complex organisations;
presenting at Open Forum Europe Summit 2010 on practical steps to improve public services with technology, including a subsequent panel discussion;
delivering a public seminar on "Innovating with public sector information" with Nigel Shadbolt at the London School of Economics;
hosting Jaron Lanier for the UK launch of his new book, "You are not a gadget". An audio recording of the event is available here (MP3);
speaking at the RSA event "Can online markets tackle poverty?" with James Purnell MP, Wingham Rowan (Slivers-of-Time Working) and Matthew Taylor (Chief Executive of the RSA). An audio recording of the event is available here (MP3);
hosting ongoing Chatham House rule meetings for select advisors and technologists to debate the future of the UK's technology policies and public services;
appearing on the platform with Dominic Grieve QC MP (Shadow Secretary of State for Justice) and Eleanor Laing MP (Shadow Justice Minister) for the launch of the new policy paper on "Reversing the Rise of the Surveillance State";
participating in the EU's workshop in Brussels on establishing trust in digital life;
a presentation on 'What the Public Sector Should Demand" at the Identity and Privacy Conference, 2009;
a House of Lords round table organised by Baroness Miller discussing "Online Privacy and the Interception of Internet Communications", involving Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Dame Wendy Hall, Nicholas Bohm, Richard Clayton and others;
chairing a panel discussion at the Mayor of London's music education summit in central London that featured contributions from Dougald Hind (School of Everything), Nick Howdle (Sound Connections), Ben Sandbrook (Youth Music), John Stephens (Greenwich Music Service) and Chee Ho Wan (Gumtree) and which considered the role of the Mayor and the Greater London Assembly (GLA) in encouraging and making best use of new social media and the Internet. The event itself was chaired by Jim Naughtie;
judging and presenting prizes at the Grid Computing for a Greener Planet competition;
Chairing a workshop on "Technology" at the Future of Creative Technologies conference, with keynote speakers Dr Jim Hendler (leading scientist of the Semantic Web, helping shape the next stage of the Web); Professor Howard Rheingold (world famous commentator on social media and virtual communities); Dr Lev Manovich (media artist, cultural analyst and the foremost theorist of new media);
presenting on 'seamless global communication' at the World Hi-Tech Forum 2008 in a session looking "Beyond the Internet" with Dr Lawrence Roberts (one of the "four founding fathers of the Internet") and Narasimhan Ram Editor in Chief of The Hindu (who has been widely recognised with a variety of awards and accolades for his significant contributions to journalism);
speaking and participating in a round-table discussion at the Labour Party Conference on Public Sector 2.0 - how can emerging information technologies improve public service delivery? chaired by Lord David Lipsey (Social Market Foundation) and with fellow participants Tom Watson MP, MT Rainey, Dr Antonio Cordella and Steve Hopson;
speaking and judging at the final of Innovate08, finding the most innovative and disruptive project potential in local government;
presenting and participating in an expert panel discussion at the NHS Confederation Conference on the topic of 'Spotting Key Innovations';
speaking at the Oxford Internet Institute on 'Convergence and the Internet';
speaking at 'Who do they think we are? Privacy, the State and the Corporation', chaired by the author and journalist Simon Jenkins and with fellow speakers Nick Herbert MP (Shadow Secretary of State for Justice), Henry Porter (novelist and columnist), Simon Davies (Director of Privacy International) and Jill Kirby (Director of the Centre for Policy Studies);
speaking at the launch of 80/20 Thinking;
chairing an expert panel discussion at the UK Innovation Day in central London;
participating in an expert panel on identity, privacy and cybercrime at the Conservative Party Spring Conference with David Davis MP (Shadow Home Secretary), Damian Green MP (Shadow Minister for Immigration), Gareth Crossman (Liberty) and Simon Chorley (Stop the Traffik);
presenting and participating on the expert panel "Building tomorrow´s world: Information security and e–government" at the Hitachi Inspire event with Phil Willis MP (Chairman of the House of Commons, Innovation, Universities and Skills Committee), Andrew Miller MP and John Suffolk (HMG CIO);
presenting and debating at the Oxford Internet Institute's and Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology's event "Gov 2.0, or Truly Transformative Government", hosted at the House of Commons.
Jerry provided the Keynote at the
WorkTech 07
Conference hosted at the British Library, looking at emergent technologies
and their impact on the way we work, live, learn and play. Jerry also
participated in the expert panel on future technologies and their impact on
broadcasting at
Broadcast Live! at
Earls Court; gave the plenary address at the 450th anniversary conference of
the
Worshipful
Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers
on the impacts of technology by 2020; provided the plenary Keynote at
BAPCO 2007; presented
at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum in
Athens; and won the audience vote at a debate on "fantasy identity cards" at
the
Digital ID Forum in
London. Jerry also provided the closing Keynote at
Biometrics 2006 and
the Keynote on "technology adoption" at the
NCC's 40th anniversary conference.
Jerry has led evidence to the Houses of Parliament on numerous occasions - including providing written and oral evidence to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee inquiry into personal Internet security and the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee inquiry into scientific advice, risk and evidence and the extent to which it impacts public policy. He sits on a variety of policy-influencing bodies, including the DTI/Intellect Grid Computing Now! Advisory Board (shaping the UK's development of grid computing), the EURIM Personal Identity and Data Sharing Subgroups, and the UK's Knowledge Transfer Network dedicated to Trusted Computing.
In September 2008 he was invited by the Scottish Government onto a new Expert Panel established to help public bodies protect individual's privacy. Reporting to Ministers, the group includes both private and public sector members. The panel will develop a draft set of guiding principles for public bodies to ensure that they properly protect individuals' privacy when handling their information.
Jerry participated in horizontal, horizon scanning: technology and learning as part of a small group of technology innovators looking at the world of 2025 and the role technology would play then in order to inform how we should behave now (sample video here). He sat in an independent capacity on Oxford University's ICT Steering Group (designing the strategy for the next generation federated ICT structure for the Oxford colleges) and was a member of the e-Smart 2006, e-Smart 2008 and e-Smart 2009 Scientific Committees, as well as appearing on the expert panel on the future of the smartcard industry. He has also been active in helping support the Enterprise Privacy Group.
Jerry
features on the DVD
Taking Liberties as one of the commentators in Ask the Experts.
He is also quoted extensively in the book of
Taking Liberties, examining some of the key issues that arise when
technology meets policy.
In 2007, Jerry was invited by the Board of Trustees of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce to become a Fellow (FRSA). He was also a judge in the first ever Machinima Festival Europe.
Jerry holds a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques to composition from City University (London), from where he also obtained his BSc(Hons). He is a Fellow with Chartered status of the British Computer Society (FBCS CITP), a Fellow of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (FIMIS) and a Fellow of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers (FIAP). He is also a professional Member of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.
Jerry is married with one son and in his spare time relaxes by composing music and enjoying time with his family.
Jerry can be contacted via email sent to jerry at ntouk.com.
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