4 Steps Towards a Better Internet
I believe the internet today is pretty much broken — by behavioral tracking, by market concentration, by walled gardens. And while I caution against quick technological fixes as attempts…
Tag: open source
Working with Sovereign Tech Fund
After a brief engagement last year for a strategy process, I’m excited to be working more intensely with Sovereign Tech Fund, a publicly funded program to strengthen public…
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…
Thoughts on the mainstreaming of openness
Disclaimer: I’m strongly biased towards openness. I prefer free and open software over closed systems, I prefer an open and decentralized web over a closed and centralized one.…
Diaspora, an open Facebook?
A few weeks ago, four recent NYU graduates announced – to the background noise of the latest (of many) major Facebook privacy fail – that they intended to…
iPad, Wired App, ecosystem. Or not.
I’m a big fan of Wired. I read it online all the time, I used to have a Wired US subscription (that didn’t work out that well both…
Grassroots mapping (kite, camera, coke)
Grassrooots Mapping: Field Mapping Training from TungstenMonkey on Vimeo. Grassrootsmapping.org: Seeking to invert the traditional power structure of cartography, the grassroots mappers use helium balloons and kites to…