For more than 15 years I was an active member of the Freifunk Community. Since its foundation back in 2003 it was a long and exciting journey for me. In this article I want to share some of my very personal highlights and thoughts on this trip. Read more
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Five years ago I co-founded the School of Collaboration – a German not-for-profit organization in the fields of research and education – aiming to improve human interaction in teams. Like any other start-up we needed … Read more
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry … Read more
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[Translated from: http://blog.freifunk.net/2015/es-geht-ums-ganze by Nemesis, T_X, JuergeN and Adam] The public is just starting to grasp how important the so-called “digital glass of water” is – that is the free access to the Internet … Read more
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Open Design Now; Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive will be launched internationally during DMY International Design Festival Berlin, on the 2nd of June. Host is Marcus Fairs, one of the most influential and knowledgeable figures … Read more
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While big companies like Nokia are obviously struggling with their R&D and product strategies, the field of user / hacker driven innovation is quite recently gaining massive momentum. As a current UK study underlines, in … Read more
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OHANDA is an initiative to foster sustainable sharing of open hardware and design. It was the starting point for my collaboration with Tuomo Tammenpää. Our proposed solution with OHANDA is a label in the sense of … Read more
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Concept about Free and Open Public WiFi for the City of Berlin Wireless Open Public Local Access Network Berlin (PDF) [German only] 5,714 total views
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The Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) is a non-profit, international group of individuals and organizations whose goal is to promote the creation of open authoring, communications and dissemination infrastructures for the circumpolar region. We aim to … Read more
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Aside from other projects I am engaged in, I am also promoting a free open source (GPL) based software project named DeepaMehta, just like the Indian film maker. DeepaMehta is an entirely new approach of … Read more
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