Framed vs Framing Enquiries
Through Céline Henne, I was introduced to the idea of framed vs framing enquiries, a tremendously useful tool to consider what types of questions you really are trying…
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Quick takeaways from Hannah Ritchie’s Not the End of the World
I’ve been reading Hannah Ritchie’s Not the End of the World, and while I cannot get myself to quite share her optimism, I highly recommend the book. For…
Verwaltungsdigitalisierung: 2 aktuelle Studien
Zwei Studien zur Verwaltungsdigitalisierung von der Agora Digitale Transformation (nachfolgend ADT. Full disclosure: Im Rahmen meiner Arbeit für die Stiftung Mercator war ich an der Konzeption der ADT…
re:publica is a wrap
This week I attended re:publica, Germany’s most relevant tech & society conference. I’ve been going since year 1 (2007) — not every year, and often not for the…
New report out now: Digital Civil Society — A Maturing Field
We just published a new report about the state of digital civil society in Germany: Digital Civil Society — A Maturing Field (PDF)Published April 2024. Copyright Stiftung Mercator. Author…
Ways to think about alternative social media
We know the many ways social media platforms are failing us. But/and I think it would be tremendously helpful to expand our vocabulary and thinking about these things…
Explore this blog via ChatGPT
As a little experiment, I’ve set up a custom AI agent / GPT chatbot for this website, appropriately named The Waving Cat Explorer. The idea is that it…