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]]