This blog is edited by Paul Walsh, BIMA Chair.
Members of the BIMA Executive will write from time to time. Guest writers will also be invited to contribute.
About Paul Walsh
Paul was reelected Chair of the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA), an Industry association for the digital industry, in May 2007 after serving as Chair in 2006 and as a member of the Executive in 2005.
Paul is the Founder and CEO of Segala, a specialist in Web Accessibility and Mobile Web compliance certification and expert in content classification using Content Labels.
Prior to Segala, Paul was an executive at Eqos, a pioneer in the development of Web technologies for the B2B retail industry.
Paul was one of the first to join AOL as a small startup in 1995 where he was the first Technical Accounts Manager and International Beta Coordinator. He was a key member of the team developing AOL’s UK presence and assisted with the launch of other AOL European territories.
Paul has international experience within the Telecommunications Industry and has consulted for companies such as Vodafone, O2, Orange, CMG and ADC Metrica.
Paul is an adviser to the British Council, helping it to build and improve the digital pioneer programme with Hong Kong. He is also advising them on a new 3 year entrepreneurial related project with India.
He is non-Executive Director at Newspepper.com and a mentor to the CEO of 3 Dynamics; one of Hong Kong’s top 5 mobile games companies.
He is also a Partner in a group of award winning, Michelin rated restaurants in Dublin.
Paul hosts conferences, delivers keynote speeches and moderates debates regularly. He also consults brands with a global presence, in how to adopt social media to deliver more innovative marketing to improve consumer engagement.
Contribution to Standards
- Instrumental in the formation of the W3C’s first ever incubator activity, to review Content Labels as a formal method of classifying and labeling content
- Segala’s W3C Advisory Committee Representative
- Founding Sponsor of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative and member of the Steering Council
- Active participant in the W3C Semantic Web Education and Outreach (SWEO) special interest group.
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