Emergencies fast-forward historical processes. Entire countries serve as guinea-pigs in large-scale social experiments. (Yuval Noah Harari) For the past few years I have been delivering Digital Skills workshops to interested students at Goodenough...
Founders Joe Friel, Oliver Smith-Wellnitz, Kristina Jaggard with Dan Sofer and Anni Rowland-Campbell Founders and Coders started life as “Self Organising”, a MeetUp at the British Library[1] which led to a 6 week pilot at the Camden Code Academy...
In July last year, before we had Intersticia UK properly set up, I wrote this post. We are about to take Brave Conversations to the next level with events in Melbourne, Boston and London. If we know that alternative futures are possible then we can...
Founders Oliver Smith-Wellnitz and Kristina Jaggard with Haneen Shahwah and Ali Haj Ahmed Intersticia is thrilled to announce our second cohort of Tech for Better Coders in partnership with Founders and Coders (UK) and Gaza Sky Geeks. This builds o...
In November 2018 Intersticia UK began supporting the Founders and Coders Tech for Better programme. The programme seeks to design, test and build new digital service ideas using developers in London and Gaza which not only gives the opportunity for ...
“Knowledge is power. To scrutinize others while avoiding scrutiny oneself is one of the most important forms of power.” (Frank Pasquale, The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information) Recently I joined Tris Luml...
When everyone agrees on where the future is headed – especially when that destination is so far from our current reality – that’s not a sign of inevitability; it’s a sign that people have stopped thinking. A good time, perhaps, to hike ...
Fortune favours the prepared mind. (Louis Pasteur) They say it also favours the brave. I have never been what I consider a risk-taker, nor considered myself particularly brave. But I do know that when my spider-sense tells me something I shou...
Last week in an article in the Financial Review renown businessman David Gonski talked about the commoditisation of the professions. Let's be professional and fight artificial intelligence. (David Gonski) Gonski is right on a number of fronts, b...