About Seradigm
Seradigm was founded by Julian Carver and is the vehicle for his consulting work.
Julian has extensive experience in central and local government, the NZ science system, and the environment sector. He has led information system strategic plan development for a range of agencies including Landcare Research, Archives New Zealand, and the Animal Health Board.
For the last seven years Julian has been heavily involved in cross agency data & information sharing strategies and shared services projects across CRIs, Universities, MSI (was MoRST/FRST), MfE, MFish, MAF, Department of Conservation, ERMA and Regional Councils. From 2004-2010 Julian advised the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology through their development of policy for environmental data management, and research data reuse. This included facilitation of a number of national workshops including ‘Research Data Matters’ in July 2010.
He is also involved in open government and open data initiatives, chairing conferences including Open Government (June 2010), Smart Government (March 2011), and Web Oriented Government (October 2011). In 2011 Julian co-led the development of New Zealand’s Declaration on Open and Transparent Government.
Julian a spokesperson to government for Open NZ (an organisation representing the open data community), and is a venture partner in NZ Capital Strategies, a venture capital firm specialising in cleantech and Internet technology investments.
Julian is currently the acting Chief Information Officer for the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority.