People/Tim McNamara

Tim McNamara comes to the Open Knowledge Foundation with both a policy and technical background. He is well known for his contribution to open source software projects, especially in the humanitarian domain. He awaits the conferment of a Masters in Public Policy, gained for studying the arguments used within the New Zealand surrounding access to research data from Crown research institutes. For this work, he was awarded the Laurie Cameron Scholarship, a prized for distinguished scholarship on the interaction between the public and private sectors.