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freelance pension plans. the good, the bad & the ugly.

German Labor Secretary von der Leyen proposed to include all freelancers in the German pension system. Before, for freelancers paying into the pension pool was voluntary – much…

Post date May 16, 2012

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Currently

Working with multiple foundations and think tanks on issues surrounding digital society, smart cities, AI, governance, tech policy. This is the main part of my work.

Working with Stiftung Mercator on a range of strategic initiatives as part of their Digital Society focus area.

Strategy work with the Sovereign Tech Fund, a publicly funded program to strengthen public interest open source digital infrastructure ecosystems.

Strategy work with the European AI & Society Fund, which works on shaping AI to better serve people & society.

Getting Tech Right, an independent research project that explores issues around how technology shapes our society and how to think about these issues better.

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Interim Director of the European AI Fund

Publication: Towards a European AI & Society Ecosystem

Publication: Smart Cities: A Key to a Progressive Europe

Co-founder of ThingsCon, a non-profit to advocate for a responsible IoT, global community of IoT practitioners, and event platform.

From 2019 to 2021 I was an industry PhD supervisor for the OpenDoTT research program on responsible IoT. OpenDoTT is an EU-funded joint program by the University of Dundee and Mozilla Foundation.

Zephyr Berlin, our pants that travel well and are built to last. Hand-made in Germany from high-end Swiss performance fabric.

Visiting lecturer at University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt (Trustable Technology, Tech Ethics)

In 2018-19 I was a Mozilla Fellow. During my fellowship I developed a trustmark for IoT together with the ThingsCon network.

In 2019 I was an Edgeryders Fellow pursuing independent research on smart city governance.

Prototype Fund: Jury member

Evaluator for the EU's NGI Atlantic innovation funding program.

Corona Crisis — Lessions for the Future of Cities, a video interview series with city decision-makers, for Körber Foundation.

Some Classics

View Source: Shenzhen, an exploration of the Shenzhen hardware ecosystem [ebook]

Co-author of Understanding the Connected Home, with Michelle Thorne

Co-author of research report "Digitalisierung und die Smart City — Ressource und Barriere transformativer Urbanisierung." Expertise für das WBGU-Hauptgutachten „Der Umzug der Menschheit: Die transformative Kraft der Städte“, with Prof. Dr. Christoph Bieber (2016).

A Trustmark for the Internet of Things: Research report for Mozilla Foundation.

Co-chair of Interaction 16, IxDA's annual interaction design conference.

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