MANAGEMENT
A/Prof Vanessa Teague
Chairperson & FounderVanessa is an Adjunct Associate Professor at ANU specialising in cryptographic protocols that support a free and democratic society. She works on openly available research and software for supporting democratic decision making and empowering ordinary people to make choices about their own data. Vanessa has researched security problems in e-voting and e-counting systems and has developed new tools and techniques for auditing complex elections (photo: Kristina D.C. Hoeppner, CC BY-SA 2.0).
Rosey Conway
Board Member & CommunicationsRosey has 30 years experience as an educator, specialising in executive sales, marketing, branding, strategy, management and communications. Her BA in the humanities & social sciences has inspired a career that thrives on building creative solutions to achieve great outcomes. Rosey is passionate about improving democratic involvement and communication, and she hopes to inspire more Australians to become politically engaged and have their voices heard.
Lillian McCann
Board Member & TechnologistLilli grew up in Gippsland in regional Victoria. After completing a BA in politics & international studies and a Diploma in Computing, she fulfilled her desire to develop the skills to build technology to change the world for the better and began a career in software engineering. Passionate about the potential for e-democracy to improve democratic processes and representation, and concerned about poor cybersecurity and digital privacy, Lilli is committed to advancing democracy through her role in Democracy Developers.
Dr Michelle Blom
RAIRE Technical SpecialistMichelle is a Senior Research Fellow in the AI and Autonomy Lab of the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. Michelle completed her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Melbourne in 2011. She has diverse research interests that include election integrity (with a focus on post-election audits), combinatorial optimization (with a focus on algorithms for solving large problems through decomposition, local search, and the use of mathematical programming), applications of reinforcement learning, and Explainable AI.
Geraldine Allen FCPA FGIA
Administrative Manager & Company SecretaryGeraldine brings over two decades of experience in not-for-profit financial management, business operations and corporate governance, within the education, health and research sectors. She has an extensive background partnering with numerous not-for-profits and climate action organisations. Geraldine is currently Company Secretary for a women's domestic violence service in Brisbane. She is also Treasurer for a climate-action NFP, Comms Declare, guiding their financial accountability, transparency and good governance principles to drive their purpose.
Dan Cameron
VOLUNTEERDan grew up in the NSW Riverina (Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area) and has years of experience in systems testing locally and in the USA; and in managing systems training facilitation. Dan has also recently been involved with Democracy Developers by proof reading some of the website and in testing the mobile phone app.
Analysis
We provide objective technical analysis for government and the public of electronic forms of democratic participation including risks, potential benefits, security and effectiveness.
TECH & DESIGN
Andrew Conway
Chris Culnane
Chuanyuan Liu
Tim McCann
Volunteers
Our volunteers have been the lifeblood of Democracy Developers. Without their expertise and continuing determination and passion, we would not have been able to deliver our initiatives.
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Charmaine Chew, Matt Lefurge, Hanna Navissi, Dana McKay, Eleanor McMurtry, Pedro Rosas, Miguel Wood, and the Masters’ student teams at the University of Melbourne.
Our volunteers have:
- Provided technical support and helped develop the framework for our app and website.
- Provided marketing advice and graphic design services.
- Provided trusted advice on cryptographic and secure software design methods.
- Assisted in the development of resources and policies that are important to the management of our charity.
