Last week I held the first of our second series of Digital Gymnasia with Alumni and Members of Goodenough College. In 2017 Experion created it's Your Data Self ads which, as the ad says, is what companies see when they're deciding how to interact ...
We began our partnership with Founders and Coders in November 2018 by supporting the Founders Programme. The objective was to give Founders and Coders (FAC) and Gaza Sky Geeks (GSG) Graduates some practical industry experience as well as the opport...
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin) "May you live in interesting times" is an English expression that is claimed to be a translation of a traditional Chinese curse 2020 has ...
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 ...