Bio

Lee Bryant is an on-line social communication specialist with a strong belief in the empowering potential of the Internet.  Pre-Internet, he wrote and researched in the field of International Relations, working as a media consultant for the Bosnian government in London and Sarajevo during the war. In 1996, he co-founded one of the first successful online agencies to focus on building online knowledge communities, and also helped establish the social enterprise Brixton Online, a pioneering local online community in London.

Lee is on the Board of Involve  a charity that is exploring new forms of public participation - www.involve.org.uk - and the Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation - www.fstc.co.uk - that runs the Muslim Heritage project. In 2002, Lee and his team founded Headshift to focus on the emerging area of social software. Headshift is now at the forefront of the social software industry, and its clients and partners include health care bodies, government agencies, NGOs and think tanks.

Lee Bryant's contributions:

Rebooting Australia?

Lee Bryant and James Dellow, of Europe’s leading social technology consultancy, Headshift, propose the application of some 21st century solutions to Australia's problems: use government spending to seed innovation; harness people power for rapid, iterative improvements to policies and services; and open up access to government data.

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