Tag: germany
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Trying a thing – a weekly Tab / Brain Dump
I obsessively make notes in my laptop, but I stil l haven’t found a sensible way to share them. so I’m sharing this post here, in the hope that it’ll force me to clarify my thoughts as I read stuff, and eventually get to some state a bit like being able to follow the Memex…
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Trying an idea – OMGDPR, a GPDR-themed event in Berlin
I’ve been following the passage of GDPR from ideas to law over the last couple of years, and I’m convinced its effects will be far reaching, and extremely disruptive to the industry I work in, but also any industry that collects and processes data around customers. I started chatting with a friend Maik, and we’re…
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An update on election Hackday and the goals of WhoTargets.me
Earlier in August, I went to a hack day with a few friends to work on WhoTargetsMe, a project started by some people in London. We ended up working on the project because we felt that platforms like Facebook had emerged, that were were powerful in the same way that you might consider TV and…
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Notes as I learn more about the German political scene
Last week, I wrote a post about the BPB and WhoTargetsme, and since writing that, I’ve been lucky to enough to have a few very nice volunteers help make up a team of illustrators, data scientists and talented technical types) with me to go to this German Election themed hackday this Friday. In this post…
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What if BPB ran service like whotargets.me for Germany?
We’ve had a number of elections in the last 18 months where digital has been cited as one of the key tools used by the winning party to win. In the US, after the electoral upset of 45 being voted in, we saw a clutch of stories about the massive database used to suppress turnout among…