Efter den senaste tidens avslöjanden har det blivit uppenbart att Facebook inte är ett företag som värnar om demokrati, personlig integritet eller unga personers psykiska hälsa. Så hur kan föreningslivet förhålla sig till den här teknikjätten, som vi är så beroende av för att organisera oss och nå ut till medlemmar? — Vad vi vetat sedan tidigare är att Facebook samlar in all vår användardata för att sälja riktade annonser. Det kan låta harmlöst, men har till exempel använts för att sälja annonspaket som riktar sig specifikt till psykiskt instabila tonåringar.

Upcoming project at Medialab Prado’s Collective Intelligence 2017. — The citizen platform Consul is used by Madrid and over thirty other cities in Spain, as well as several cities in Latin America. In the last few months it has also been used by the social housing company of Paris for participatory budgeting and the British People’s Momentum for their…

The start-up world has come to the same conclusion as many social movements, that a small group of people working together make the most effective and creative choices. — A group of around seven people is recommended by both Google Venture’s “Design Sprint” method, as well as various activist guides to “affinity groups”. The idea with affinity groups however, is not only to organise your part of an event or action, but also to be a part of a…

According to tradition, a programmer’s productivity was measured by “lines of code” in the old days. That is, the amount of code you wrote. Anyone remotely interested in programming understands how crazy that is, because the less code you need to write to make something happen, the more talented programmer…

This is a description my project for as a part of the Collective Intelligence for Democracy workshop in November 2016 for MediaLab Prado Madrid. In Sweden, more young people use Facebook every day than who voted in the last general election. This is an international trend, and most certainly does…

This is a recap of a talk by Petter Joelson at Rabash’s Design Salon on February 19, 2015. My agency Rabash was hired in 2014 to start redesigning Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF) Sweden’s website. …