Suw Charman-Anderson

Suw Charman-Anderson is the founder of Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths.

She is also a social technologist and, as one of the UK’s social media pioneers, has helped clients worldwide use social tools for collaboration and communication internally and to build customer relationships externally. As a freelance journalist, Suw has written about social media and technology for The Guardian, CIO Magazine, .Net Magazine, Computer Weekly and FirstPost.com. She currently blogs about publishing and crowdfunding for Forbes.com.

Suw has self-published two novellas. The first Argleton, was crowdfunded through Kickstarter. The second, Queen of the May, is available exclusively through her website in an ongoing experiment in direct sales. A keen bookbinder, Suw combines her love for fiction with her passion for the book as a physical artefact.

In 2005, Suw co-founded the Open Rights Group with the aim of raising awareness of digital rights issues and campaigning against bad legislation in Britain and the EU.