Hello, I'm Jessi Baker. I'm a tech designer and engineer. My skills are in strategy, UX and making things that fuse digital and physical. I am currently building Provenance with a great team in London, building on a new technology called blockchain to...
There’s a blockchain for that!
There’s this hopelessly geeky new technology. It’s too hard to understand and use. How could it ever break the mass market? Yet developers are excited, venture capital is pouring in, and industry players are taking note. Something big might be happening.
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Awesome Political Stuff from Suki Ferguson
Why can’t I vote with an app? Why can’t I find out what’s going on the country, town, neighbourhood I live in via a social network? I have been highly frustrated by the lack of tech enabling us to be citizens and vote. Security issues? Whatever.
After an inspiring evening chat with my friend Suki about politics and the lack of engagement with it and voting, Suki sent me some interesting stuff to check out, thought others in tech might be interested to check it out too. Two inspiring organizations below.
A party neutral movement on a mission to empower young voters. Bite the Ballot is a not for profit organisation that empowers young people to speak up and act, to make their votes and opinions count. They inspire young people to be counted and make informed decisions at the ballot box, encouraging them to take power and become the champions that will change the face of British politics. They are not affiliated to any political party – we think they all need to do more for the youth vote. Their core values when engaging those furthest away from politics are to be unconventional, inclusive and bold. Three words you may not associate with today’s politics.
Mass1 started running campaigns for charities and causes back in 2009. Back then apps were going crazy in their second year of launch, smartphones were set to become the default handset of choice and even your gran was contemplating getting on Facebook or Twitter.
They had a passion for experimenting with our unique campaigning methods and innovative tools in this growing digital world. One milestone was driving strategic engagement for Ed Miliband’s Labour leadership campaign and it was here that they delivered game changing results.
Other organisations began to take notice of the people centric approach combined with powerful tools. They are now grown into a full service communications agency.
Mass1 are about giving a kick start to your campaign. creating world-class digital marketing experiences & providing state of the art engagement tools that grow our clients communities.
A short talk I gave at the ODI event: Show me the future of food and open data, about Provenance and supply chain transparency.
