 My name is Duncan Edwards. I work for the Institute of Development Studies' IDS at Sussex University. IDS has got a long history of doing applied research and theory building in the fields of governance, participation and citizenship. My role is as a programme manager for the Making All Voices Count programme, which has an embedded research component into it. Essentially trying to understand what works, what doesn't and how and why things work in the field of using technology for transparency accountability. I think I'm more interested in impact in relation to the change process that technology is being used within rather than the impact of the technology itself. So it's the kind of governance impact I'd be interested in rather than the specific contribution that a technology has contributed in that context. Now I've worked in lots of different places, lots of different contexts, lots of different sectors and they are all different. Whether that's the kind of politics of what's going on, the different actors involved, the history of a place. Essentially means that whatever context you go into it's going to be different. Equally, the degree to which technology and different types of technology are embedded within a given context makes things very different. So I think as a consequence you'd expect different types of impacts and different degrees of impacts anyway. There are a number of civic technology projects that I think are really exciting, really interesting. For example there's some work that Indonesia Corruption Watch is doing at the moment which is looking at national procurement data, analysing that and putting their findings online. Or there's some work in Brazil where there's these kind of collaborative policy making processes that are going on. Where they're really trying to engage people at the grassroots in the development of policy. Whether that's having impact, I think it's very early days in understanding what the long term impacts of some of that is. So interesting stuff, does it have impact? I think it's too early to tell. It's the first time I've been to TicTac and so it was an opportunity to reconnect to people who were doing really interesting things. And researchers who are looking at some of the issues that overlap with the work that I'm doing.