Publications
- Major EU firms source tin from Indonesian company tainted by corruption, Follow the Money, 2025. [Co-author]
- The Tin Racket: Illegal mining ransacked these Indonesian islands. Tech titans turned a blind eye, The Gecko Project, Follow the Money, Korea Centre for Investigative Journalism, Yle, 2025. [Co-author]
- Insider testimony points to “sustainable” conglomerate as hidden hand behind destruction of rainforest, The Gecko Project and Bloomberg News, 2024. [Author]
- Critical analytics? Learning from the early adoption of data analytics for local authority service delivery, Ada Lovelace Institute, 2024. [Lead author]
- Chasing Shadows: Extensive evidence suggests corporation selling "sustainable" palm oil hid control of companies destroying rainforest. The Gecko Project, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, El Pais, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Tempo, Follow the Money, De Tijd, NDR and WDR, 2023. [Co-author and member of reporting team]
- Audit finds “tiny percentage” of palm oil companies sharing plantations with communities, The Gecko Project, 2023. [Author]
- Analysis: How do oil palm companies get away with disregarding Indonesian law?, The Gecko Project and New Mandala, 2023. [Editor]
- Promised prosperity, drowning in debt: How palm oil firms gamed a scheme to lift Indonesians out of poverty, The Gecko Project, BBC and Mongabay, 2022. [Researcher and member of reporting team]
- ‘The promise was a lie’: How Indonesian villagers lost their cut of the palm oil boom, The Gecko Project, BBC and Mongabay, 2022. [Researcher and member of reporting team]
- Pandemics, power, and publics: trends in post-crisis health technology, Meatspace Press, 2021. [Co-author]
- Designing and Facilitating Remote Events: A guide, Hivos, 2020. [Lead author]
- Technology for Legal Empowerment: A Global Review, Open Society Justice Initiative, 2019. [Lead researcher]
- Data Use: A Briefing for Development Initiatives' Strategy Process, Development Initiatives, 2019. [Lead researcher]
- Technology in Case Management for Legal Empowerment, Open Society Justice Initiative, 2018. [Lead researcher]
- Sharing Data Responsibly – A Conversation Guide for Funders, Ariadne and 360Giving, 2018. [Lead researcher]
- Rainforest protection and socially responsible investment: A quick-start guide, Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2017. [Lead researcher]
- Alidade, an interactive online tool to help NGOs choose technology tools, 2017. [Lead researcher]
- A lot of civil society organisations have a secret. Their tech projects are failing. What does the research tell us?, Research synthesis for Making All Voices Count, 2017. [Lead researcher]
- Humanitarian Futures for Messaging Apps: Understanding the opportunities and risks, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), 2017. [Lead researcher]
- Technology tools in human rights, The Engine Room, 2017. [Interviewer]
- A Primer on technology to monitor rainforests and forest peoples' rights, The Engine Room and Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2016. [Lead researcher]
- Choosing technology in Kenyan and South African transparency and accountability initiatives, Making All Voices Count (Institute of Development Studies), 2016. [Co-author and project manager]
- DatNav: Guide to Navigating Digital Data in Human Rights Research, The Engine Room, Benetech and Amnesty International, 2016. [Interviewer]
- A Movements Perspective on Transparency and accountability, Transparency and Accountability Initiative, 2015. [Co-author]
- Microtasking: Uses for human rights monitoring, Amnesty International, 2015. [Lead researcher]
- Three reports on the impact of citizen-generated data in Argentina, East Africa and Nepal, DataShift, CENIT, Local Interventions Group, et al, 2015. [Commissioning editor]
- Responsible Data in the Donor Community, The Engine Room, 2014. [Co-author]
- The Rise of Greek civil society, The Guardian, 2014. [Co-author]
Talks and interviews
- Speaker at Data and Computational Journalism Conference Indonesia, 2022
- Speaker at Access to Justice and Technology Summit, organized by DLA Piper and PILnet, 2019. (Event details)
- Speaker at Reimagining Digital Humanitarianism conference, Goldsmiths University of London, 2018.
- Speaker on panel: How to Counter the Backlash Against Beneficial Ownership & Public Procurement Transparency in the Age of Fake News & Data Breaches , Global Anti-Corruption Conference, 2018. (Session listing)
- Speaker at ICT4D London on messaging apps, 2017.
- Interviewee for "A Double-Edged Sword: Benefits and Recommendations for Using Information and Communication Technology to Monitor or Investigate Human Rights, Robin Pierro, European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, 2016.