New Director
Imagine Innovation are very proud to welcome Nathanael Boehm onboard as a Director. Below are a few words about Nat.
Nathanael has been a passionate innovator and leader in the web and technology industry for many years working on many initiatives both as a contractor with the Australian Federal Government on Government 2.0 and government social media and as an individual. While working in government he pioneered the first ongoing Federal Government blog and promoted Government 2.0, social media, transparent government, open data and citizen engagement within Government in his own department and through events such as Public Sphere as well as being involved with the activities of the Government 2.0 Taskforce.
He has been a co-organiser of every BarCamp grass-roots community tech conference and collaboration event held in Canberra over the past few years plus participated in interstate BarCamps. He has been a member of the OpenAustralia team for several years and worked on OpenAustralia.org plus other associated projects including Fix My Street Australia.
Nathanael also participated in the Australian Social Innovation Exchange meetup that was held in Canberra mid-2009 and will be attending the ASIX Mashup Camp that will be taking place in early 2010.
He is also heavily involved with the Free Australia Wireless project for two years which promoted the sharing of residential and commercial wireless networks to provide everyone with free Internet access, anywhere. Nathanael coordinated the purchase and installation of thousands of dollars of Meraki wireless networking hardware and presented at BarCampCanberra and Wireless World 2008 on the FAW project.
Nathanael’s profession is as a web user interaction and user experience designer. He has 10 years of experience working in the web industry in design, development and deployment of web applications in both the private and public sector. He draws on his extensive knoweldge and expertise in this field and applies it to managing and implementing innovation projects with a user-centric, citizen-centric perspective.
