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 cambridge university julian todd computer programmer
julian todd

julian todd is a british computer programmer and activist for freedom of information who works in liverpool .
he was inventor and co-founder of public whip with francis irving .
and also the affiliated theyworkforyou website , a project that parses raw hansard data to track how members vote in the uk parliament .
initially risking prosecution for reusing the raw data under crown copyright , they were later successful in getting permission to use it .
he has since extended this concept of parsing political transcripts to the general assembly and security council of the united nations to establish undemocracy.com in 2007 .
-lsb- http://undemocracy.com] todd is a director of scraperwiki .
todd also writes science fiction short stories , and is cited as a major inspiration for the mundane science fiction movement .
