Connection Problem S08E01: A New Year, a New Season
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Launching the Getting Tech Right podcast
Getting Tech Right is a series of interviews exploring issues around how technology shapes our society and how to think about these issues better. This podcast is part…
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Government services should be channel-agnostic
Berlin has kicked off a long process to develop a so-called “digital strategy” for government services. About time, I might add, given that the UK have gone through…
What Can Designers Learn From Political Science?
As part of ThingsCon‘s RIOT Report — our annual essay collection about the State of Responsible Internet of Things — I wrote an article drawing parallels between the challenges we…
6 Investment Hypotheses for Foundations & Public Funding Organizations
A lot of institutional funding goes to established partners and towards well-understood problems. And that’s good! But it also leaves some critical blank spots that are underfunded — especially…
New article: On Open Source Hardware and Public Interest Technology
Over at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society‘s Digital Society Blog, a new article I co-wrote with Dr. Stephan Bohn and Prof. Dr. Hendrik Send just went…
New offer: Remote sessions for foundation leaders and policy makers around tech & societal issues
In 2021, I’m offering remote workshops as well as discreet consultation sessions for policy makers, investment managers in foundations and public funding bodies, and public sector managers to…