Nathan Young

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• @NathanpmYoung 
• Co-Founder of the Coronavirus Tech Handbook, for a time the world's largest repository of tools relating to COV-19. Cited in over 100 articles eg here
• 2:1 Masters, mathematics, Durham University
• Founded a web design and policy consultancy, Frostwork

Contact + Misc

• @NathanpmYoung 👍
• Say hi on this WhatsApp
• Book a meeting - seriously, if you're curious, just do it. I'm very relaxed
• Substack 👍
• mail@nathanpmyoung.com
• Parody rap
• Personal newsletter
• (Legacy) https://medium.com/@nathanpmyoung

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Projects I’m currently working on (add thumbs up to all those you think have the most impact)

• EA jobs - linking Twitter to Reddit to email 👍👍

• Twitter bots that retweets effective altruism jobs 👍
• An upvotable effective altruism jobs board

• Pushing for more Approval voting in the UK 👍
• Weekly forecasting on Metaculus discord 👍
• Good Policy Ideas subreddit 👍
• Workflow tools upvoting board 👍
• Metaculus forecasting tools 👍
• Write a novella
• Write articles on different methods of improving institutions in the UK
• Decision making tool for working out your weights
• UK policy community
• Get better at poker
• [your suggestion here]

Past projects

• Coronavirus Tech Handbook
• Election Tech Handbook
• EA Jobhunting discord

Professional Experience

Data Science Community Manager - Turing-RSS Joint Lab

• June 2021 - Present 2021
• Supporting community of 20 data scientists, with external talks
• Publicise work of the lab in government and epidemiological community
• Maintain knowledge between the laboratory and the Joint Biosecurity Centre within government

Founder and Director - The Coronavirus Tech Handbook

• March 2020 - August 2020
• The largest online library of resources around Coronavirus.
• 600k hits, 4000 projects, 130+ sections.
• “Inspiring...and well-organised” - Dr Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science.
• Media:

• https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/worldwide-hackathon-hospitals-turn-crowdsourcing-3d-printing-amid-equipment-shortages-n1165026
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2020/04/15/heres-how-all-of-us-can-use-technology-to-help-tackle-coronavirus/
• https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/5dm4mb/people-are-trying-to-make-diy-ventilators-to-meet-coronavirus-demand

Open Data Consultant and Project Manager - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

• Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
• Built a list of individuals and communities ranked according to the ease with which we could contact them. Our team has since increased this to over 14 million people and organisations.
• RSPB has taken our team’s recommendations forward in their Big Green Data strategy.
• Project managed a team of 4.

Residential Fellow - Newspeak House

• July 2019 - July 2020
• Researching systems change in civil society.
• Helped create electiontechhandbook.uk, containing 150 tools and a community of >200 political technologists. This new community recently held their post-election debrief to measure impact.

Company Director and Web Designer - Frostwork Media Ltd

• 2016 - Present
• Websites, marketing, graphic design, corporate strategy.
• Self-motivated and self-managing.
• Learned customer management, business strategy and coding.
• Major client, Bluesky Certification, now a significant player in the UK door and window certification market.

Always happy to chat, get in touch at mail@nathanpmyoung.com or @NathanpmYoung

You can book a video call with me here

Media

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p086xg5j
• https://sifted.eu/articles/wikipedia-coronavirus/
• https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/crowdsourcing-ideas-combat-covid-19/
• https://www.meritalk.com/articles/wiki-style-handbook-provides-governments-with-covid-19-tech-resources/