Terence Eden
British open-standards technologist; ex-GDS and NHSX; runs OpenBenches.
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- Terence Eden is a British technologist who works on open standards, open data, open source and privacy.
- In the UK Civil Service he was Open Standards Lead at the Government Digital Service and Head of Open Technology at NHSX, where he open-sourced the NHS COVID-19 app in May 2020.
- He co-created QRpedia in 2011 and runs OpenBenches, a crowd-sourced map of memorial benches, with Elizabeth Eden.
- He blogs at shkspr.mobi.
Key facts
- Public sector
- Open Standards Lead, Government Digital Service; Senior Technology Policy Advisor, Data Standards Authority; Lead Cybersecurity Architect, Central Digital and Data Office; Head of Open Technology, NHSX1
- Projects
- QRpedia (2011, with Roger Bamkin); OpenBenches; ActivityBot (2024)1
- Other roles
- Board of OpenUK (from January 2020); Google AMP Advisory Committee (2018 to 2020); senior product manager at O21
- Education
- BSc Applied Computing with Chinese, University of East Anglia (2002); MSc, Northumbria University (2023)1
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