Bill Waghorn

Bill has 30 years’ experience as a manager and consultant, in the planning, supervision and evaluation of programmes and projects concerned with information management and business management processes, and in strategy studies and design studies related to the deployment and exploitation of information technology.  He previously spent many years as a developer of advanced user‑centred computer systems. He read Maths, Philosophy and Logic for his degree.

Throughout his career, Bill has focused on human computer interface issues and IT users’ needs for standards. He has been a representative on international committees and panels, and has given evidence to a UK Parliamentary Committee in this area.

Why I work for JAAG?

Because I have long been appalled by the lack of attention computer technicians give to the needs of users and at the lack of concern for kindness and consideration in their treatment of users. I note that as computers become much more powerful, and as software becomes infinitely more clever, users and subjects of computer-based systems are too often treated even worse than they were before. I would like to redress the balance between oppressed humanity and the unfeeling systems by means of which they are oppressed.