Pauline Roche

Pauline Roche is an award-winning tech connector, do-er and fosterer of skills and knowledge about the tech for social good scene in the West Midlands, UK and Ireland, as co-Producer and co-Presenter of the weekly Dr Tech Show on Youtube and CIO of social enterprise Digital WM Productions (formerly RnR Organisation) which works to increase the digital and data literacy of small organisations in the voluntary, community & social enterprise sectors; Pauline received an honorary doctorate in Business Administration from Arden University in June 2018; in order to foster openness and collaboration she chaired both the West Midlands Open Data Forum and regional charitable funders group WM Funders Network until recently and is on the organising team for the national Open Data Camp unconference; believing in the use of technology for social good, she co-founded and ran both the Net Squared Midlands: tech for social good meetup series and the UK unconference for voluntary sector infrastructure organisations VCSSCamp; for her professional development and the development of other women in tech she networks with communities for Women in Tech