Internet Consultant and Green Politician
Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Head of Technology at Netmums Ltd.
- Green City Councillor, Regency Ward at Brighton & Hove City Council
- Foundation Governor at St Mary's RC Primary School, Portslade
- Non-executive Director at Kitcat & Kitcat Ltd
- Director & Co-founder at Swing Digital Ltd.
- Past
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- e-voting coordinator at Open Rights Group
- Columnist & Contributor at LinuxUser & Developer
- Freelance Internet Consultant (Self-employed)
- Founder at Snuffler.com
- Education
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- University of Sussex
- University of Warwick
- Worth School
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Jason Kitcat’s Summary
A dynamic, driven executive who consistently delivers innovative projects. Jason is enterprise driven with uniquely extensive experience of the e-government and e-democracy sectors. Intelligent and organised, he is a strong team player with unrivalled knowledge of topics including e-voting, e-consultations and online communities. A quick learner, he is adaptable and committed to consistently delivering outstanding professional consultancy work.
Jason Kitcat’s Specialties:
Internet Consultancy, Product Management (Design, Development and Launch), Site Architecture
Jason Kitcat’s Experience
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Head of Technology
Netmums Ltd.
(Online Media industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Netmums is a family of local websites set up and run by mums (hence the name, but of course dads and anyone involved in caring for young children are welcome too!). Each local Netmums website covers local information on places to go, things to do, education, childcare, and community, social and employment issues.
I manage the entire technology infrastructure for the site working with our team of programmers, designers and suppliers. We have managed to grow this complex site past 1 million unique visitors per month on a reasonably small technology budget by focussing on simplicity and efficiency. -
Green City Councillor, Regency Ward
Brighton & Hove City Council
(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)
December 2007 — Present (2 years )
I currently am the Green group of councillors spokesperson on Health and Waste issues.
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Foundation Governor
St Mary's RC Primary School, Portslade
(Education Management industry)
September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
Foundation Governor with ICT responsibilities (not much of a surprise I was given that hat!)
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Non-executive Director
Kitcat & Kitcat Ltd
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
September 2000 — Present (9 years 3 months)
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Director & Co-founder
Swing Digital Ltd.
(Internet industry)
August 2000 — Present (9 years 4 months)
We build online communities for alumni associations, corporate networks and political organisations. We provide full consultancy from design, coding to marketing and branding. Clients have included: Sprite (Coca-Cola Company), Royal Holloway University of London, COINS Construction Industry Software, Say Communications, Tonbridge School, Animal Aid, St Georges College and Courtenay HR (Stopgap Group).
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e-voting coordinator
Open Rights Group
(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2007 — October 2007 (10 months)
I led the observation mission by 25 volunteers which monitored the e-voting and e-counting across the 2007 elections in Scotland and England. The resulting report helped to shape the debate with e-voting no longer a government priority. The whole campaign I managed consisted of numerous events, press work, reports and media interviews.
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Columnist & Contributor
LinuxUser & Developer
(Internet industry)
2003 — 2006 (3 years )
I provided a regular monthly column and a number of features for the magazine, including cover features. All are now archived on my personal site.
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Freelance Internet Consultant
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)
May 1995 — July 2000 (5 years 3 months)
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Founder
Snuffler.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
November 1998 — April 1999 (6 months)
Founded and created Snuffer.com an online recruitment company aimed at gap year students and recent graduates. The technology created to support this company became the infrastructure of Swing Digital's core products.
Jason Kitcat’s Education
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University of Sussex
MSc , Technology & Innovation Management , 2002 — 2003
Following this degree I pursued a doctorate on online government consultations for five years before discontinuing to focus on active politics instead.
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University of Warwick
BSc(Hons) , Joint degree in Management Science & Computer Science , September 1997 — June 2000
Received prize for best final year project. The project was the start of GNU.FREE, the world's first Free Software e-voting system.
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Worth School
Maths, Physics, Chemistry, French 1992 — 1997
Was involved in a wide range of activities including debating society, politics, editing school magazine, promoting recycling, theatre, fencing and ICT.
Additional Information
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Jason Kitcat’s Interests:
e-government, e-democracy, e-voting, politics, Internet technology
Jason Kitcat’s Groups:
ACM, e-mint, Sussex Mac Users' Group, BCS, Open Rights Group
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Measurement Camp London
Jason Kitcat’s Honors:
I've been quoted in sources including BBC News Online, The Guardian, The Independent, Newsweek, The Register, The Times, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal Europe
Jason Kitcat’s Contact Settings
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