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…
How to see through the cloud, translated
Over on the [Mozilla Webmaker](https://webmaker.org/) site, [James Bridle](http://shorttermmemoryloss.com) 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](http://twitter.com/daeaves) turned into one of the most interesting (and hilarious) discussions I participated in at Foo Camp.…
AKB48
AKB48 is, according to [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKB48), “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][1], a not-for profit organization based in Berlin and Bonn that advises on barrier-free computer interfaces. Mostly that is relevant in educational purposes,…