[2][3][4] In 2012 was appointed an Ashoka Fellow[5] and remains an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge[4] and continues to serve on the board of Open Knowledge International.

Since leaving Open Knowledge International, his work has moved to focus more on broader issues of social transformation and in 2016 he co-founded a new non-profit "Life Itself".

CKAN has evolved and is the leading open data platform software in the world, used by governments including the US and UK, to publish millions of public datasets.

[16] In 2009, he was credited by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee for starting the Raw Data Now meme.

[17] In 2010 he was appointed as one of the four founding members of the UK Government's Public Sector Transparency Board.