Hi - I'm David Wilcox, based in London and working with self-styled network obsessive Drew Mackie from Edinburgh (see intro). We've known each other since the 1980s and worked together on regeneration partnerships, community engagement, workshops games and most recently how to use network mapping to support community and network building.

I started my working life as a journalist, with seven years on the London Evening Standard as planning correspondent. That was interesting as a way to help stop things happening (urban motorways, destructions of historic buildings, destructive commercial development). I flipped out of that into how to build community-based partnerships, and then in the 1990s how to bring social tech into the mix. I was inspired by trip to US conferences and projects with Freenets and Community networks. Social System Mapping seems like a good way to bring a lot of strands together.

I'm currently working with Drew to help map and connect four London equalities networks to enhance their capacity for collaboration and campaigning.