My logo

Over the years, I used a portrait photo and a landscape shot from a kayak trip as my main “brand images”. But, a while ago, I started looking at a “real logo”. Something a little abstract, but (literally?) grounded, related to path-finding, or the idea of long-term growth. And linked to the idea that IT […]

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AI for participatory urban planning

On Thursday, the Rebooting democracy in the age of AI lecture series will continue with a conversation on AI for participatory planning, looking at the UrbanistaAI platform: a way to visually co-create the use of urban spaces.

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Jon Stewart and Lina Khan on AI

In The Daily Show, Jon Stewart debunks the false promises of "AI for Good", and interviews chair of the FTC Lina Khan on oversight of AI companies and algorithms.

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Obsidian as my new knowledge hub

It has happened. After more than a decade of taking notes with Zim, I have switched to Obsidian. 2011: Hello Zim In the middle of 2008, I switched from Windows to Ubuntu, and I needed a new note-taking tool. After trying a few options, in 2011, I settled on using Zim: Notes are stored as […]

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ChatGPT as your new assistant

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A Friday Night with OpenAI about IATI

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Adding my site to the Fediverse

Thanks to the renewed interest in actual social media, rather than an algorithm-driven advertisement space, I find myself having interesting online conversations again. I really wanted to use my own website and domain for further engagement. But… experience with earlier attempts at federating networks made me cautious. Setting up and maintaining my own Jabber/XMPP and […]

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Discussing “wicked problems” online, in 2021

Nearly 20 years ago, Aldo de Moor and I presented our Social Context Model (supporting online collaboration processes for wicked problems in society) at the “Sustainability in the Information Society” symposium [1]. The symposium organisers did an environmental impact assessment, showing that basically 86% of CO2 emissions came from participants flying in and out. Back […]

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FOSDEM 2021

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Can IATI benefit from XBRL’s experiences?

Over the last weeks, I started exploring XBRL, the eXtensible Business Reporting Language. Its purpose is “to improve the accountability and transparency of business performance globally, by providing the open data exchange standard for business reporting.” There are clear parallels with IATI, the International Aid Transparency Initiative, the open data exchange standard for development and […]

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