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+A productive week
+
+This was the week where I first saw an online talk with Aral Balkan.
+He is an english designer, software developer and human data rights
+activist. He moved from the UK because of new data anti encryption
+laws there and is currently living in Malmö. He and his wife Laura
+have a work platform Ind.ie, that remind me of CouchDesign. They've
+created an app, Better, that stops you from being tracked while surfing
+the web.
+
+In his talk he explained everything I believe is important for software
+development: The 1 % surveilling our every move through online services.
+How we can take back our human and democratic rights through design of
+decentralised services. He advocates the use of [Ethical Design](https://ind.ie/ethical-design/),
+an ethical dogma that respects human rights, effort. That means designing
+technology that is "decentralised, private, open, interoperable, accessible,
+secure and sustainable", "functional, convenient and reliable" as well as
+"delightful".
+
+Watch the talk here: https://ind.ie/beyond-the-clouds/
+
+I heard about him and the concept of Ethical Design from Jonas, when he
+got home from Aarhus, presenting himself for the new team of students at
+the [Chaos Pilot University](http://www.kaospilot.dk/). (He runs the
+network Homebase there). His colleague Anders pointed towards the specific
+talk as further reference for the students, and Jonas was eager to show
+it to me when he returned home. It strook me as brilliant in its clear
+and straightforward communication, it is definitely fuel for my motivation
+to move on with the software projects in Debian Design.
+
+[[!tag blog english free_software activism politics]]
+[[!taglink Aral Balkan|balkan]]