Good digital
services.
They always put people at the centre. I offer digital consulting, platform development and education for organisations committed to the common good.
What I offer.
Development
From the idea through the prototype to the platform: web development, prototyping, UX design and user testing.
Consulting
Digital projects in their ethical, social and political context: transformation, openness, AI, participation.
Education
Workshops for skills that can be taught, and rooms for exploring together.
Consulting, prototype, platform: three steps, one person.
The prototype is the hinge. It answers in days what concept papers leave open for months, and the same person who designed it carries on building it.
Technology is never neutral.
What a system does is a decision about how people treat one another. That is why I always look at technology in its ethical, social and political context.
- Openness Open data, open standards, open administration.
- Open source Software that belongs to nobody and serves everyone.
- Digital ethics The moral questions technology raises.
- Participation Those affected should have a say.
Are we a good fit?
The codex says which projects I am right for and which I am not. That way you know before the first conversation, not only afterwards.
To the codex →Focus areas.
- Open Data Holdings a public body publishes so that anyone may use and pass them on freely.
- Open Government Decisions that can be followed from the outside, and ways of taking part in them.
- Open Source Software Software whose source can be read, checked and changed by anyone.
- Digital ethics Asking what technology does to people before it is built, not afterwards.
- Digital sustainability Systems that still run in ten years and use little electricity while they do.
- Civic Tech Applications volunteers build for the common good, in their own time.
Rooms for trying things out.
We explore with the outcome left open, working with your people and on your own material. The formats are data travel, IoT ideas and the AI exploration space.
To the exploration spaces →Tools to take with you.
These tools came out of project work. They are free to use and openly licensed, and you can read their source code.
- AI Toolkit Think through AI applications with cards instead of code.
- IoT Toolkit Design connected objects with cards.
- DatenGraf Map data flows inside organisations.
- Datenatlas Sample data from eight sectors, with an openness assessment.
- Datenlotse A guide through data holdings and responsibilities.
- Kommentator Collect feedback right on a web page.
- LeihIchDir Lend things to friends, with no account.
- NameScrub Anonymise text, right in the browser.
- Open Data Wizard Publish open data straight from WordPress.
- Ratsatlas Council decisions on a map and a timeline.
- Screenshotter Photograph web pages at full length, with an HTML report.
- Timer Countdown and stopwatch, large enough for a projector.