Digital transformation requires capacity building
In Germany, like most industrial nations, there’s a lot of talk about digital transformation. This holds especially true for the public sector, for citizen service delivery. While in…
Category: digital divide
Opening up expert knowledge for social change
tl;dr How can we make traditionally expensive expert knowledge available for free for social causes and communities in need? Sharing professional advice freely & openly I make my…
How to see through the cloud, translated
Over on the Mozilla Webmaker site, James Bridle wrote a brilliant piece that explains in very simple terms how to get a better understanding of the web at…
Foo Session: The end of the world (or state, at least)
What seems like it started out as a joke by David Eaves turned into one of the most interesting (and hilarious) discussions I participated in at Foo Camp.…
AKB48
AKB48 is, according to Wikipedia, “a Japanese female idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto. The pop group has achieved enormous popularity in Japan. It is also one of…
Galapagos Tech
The other day I talked to my friend Ryo who lives in Japan and uses an iPhone. In this he’s not alone – iPhones are, in Japan as…
barrier-free
Earlier today I visited barrierefrei kommunizieren, a not-for profit organization based in Berlin and Bonn that advises on barrier-free computer interfaces. Mostly that is relevant in educational purposes,…