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Sarah Drinkwater is the Director of Responsible Tech at Omidyar Network, a social change venture that works to bring about structural changes that will fundamentally shift the systems that govern our daily lives.

Sarah is on a mission to make technology more ethical and responsible. In 2020 she and her team launched the Ethical Explorer, a collection of tools to help people building software and technology navigate its impact.

In our conversation we talked about:

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Follow Sarah at @sarahdrinkwater on Twitter and Medium. Thank you Omidyar Network for making this conversation possible. You can download the Ethical Explorer here.

Marie Paoli leads the in-person community at Thumbtack, one of the largest marketplaces to connect with local service professionals in the USA.

With local small businesses having an increasingly hard time to run a sustainable business today, Thumbtack aims to empower them by growing communities in their local areas.

How does that work exactly?

That’s what we wanted to find out from Marie. In this pop-in call we talk about:

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If you're interested in finding out more about Thumbtack check out their app and website.

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Rakesh Kasturi is one of two co-founders of Life Sprint, a 4-week online collaborative course that helps people get unstuck in their careers.

It’s fascinating how it works: you sign up, enter a virtual call with a group of strangers and start collaborating on some of your biggest challenges in life.

But does it really work?

Plus: Rakesh’s advice for anyone wanting to start their own online course (Hint: just do it!)

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If you're interested in the work Rakesh and Matt are doing join the next Life Sprint from wherever you are.

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Engin Ayaz and Atilim Şahin are the co-founder and creative hub director of ATÖLYE, a strategic design studio and innovation platform located in an old beer brewery in Istanbul, Turkey.

At ATÖLYE, 40 strategists and designers collaborate, co-learn and co-create with a community of 150 individuals and organizations to solve wicked problems.

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Now, Peter has released a documentary called THE ACTIVIST; a 5 part series for Finnish television where Peter meets with Edward Snowden, Greenpeace captain Paul Watson and other activists to find out what makes them fight for their causes.

Reasons enough for us to take a train to Malmo, Sweden, to catch up with Peter.  In our conversation we talk about:

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Follow Peter at @brokep and watch THE ACTIVIST wherever you can access it.

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Andres Colmenares is the co-founder of IAM, the think tank, consultancy and conference that explore the futures of the internet(s).

Together with Lucy Black-Swan, Andres published The Everything Manifesto in late 2019: a call for citizens and organizations to act collectively to address the climate crisis.

We caught up with Andres to find out what it’s all about.

Follow Andres on Twitter, read The Everything Manifesto and join us at IAM Weekend on March 19-21 2020 in Barcelona.

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Philippa Wagner is the director of 23lab, Ennismore’s future innovation lab that researches the hotel experience of the future.

Together with her team, she helps shape the future experience of The Hoxton, a series of open-house hotels based in London, Amsterdam, Paris, NYC, Portland and Chicago.

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Julien de Smedt is an architect and the founder of JDS Architects, the award-winning architecture firm behind buildings such as Oslo’s Holmenkollen Ski Jump or Copenhagen’s Kalvebod Waves.

Here’s episode #31 of the co-matter podcast with Julien de Smedt.

Lea Korsgaard and Jakob Moll are two of the four journalists who founded Zetland: a Danish digital newspaper and media company that’s built on a community based membership model.

Founded in 2012, the publication has over 10,000 paying subscribers in their community who read and listen to Zetland’s daily stories.

If you’re not from Denmark you might not have heard of Zetland before. But Zetland is part of an international wave of new media companies along with The Netherland's De Correspondent and Germany’s Krautreporter that pioneer digital first, quality-driven journalism that’s based on community based member subscriptions rather than advertising.

So how did Zetland get from 0 to a community of 10,000 paying subscribers? And what can we learn from journalism re-inventing itself through a community based membership model?

I met with Lea and Jakob at Zetland’s headquarters in Copenhagen to find out. We talk about:

Here is the episode #30 of the co-matter podcast with Lea Korsgaard and Jakob Moll.

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Follow Lea at @LeaKorsgaard and Jakob at @JakobMoll on Twitter.

Darius, who is also known as Tiny Subversions on the www, is an internet artist and a researcher on the future of social networks.

Based out of Portland, Oregon, he has recently undertaken a fellowship at the Mozilla Foundation in Berlin which resulted in “Run your own social” - a manual that teaches anybody how to create and run a social network for their close circle of friends.

We sat down with Darius at The Conference in Malmö, Sweden, to talk about:

Here is episode #29 of the co-matter podcast with Darius Kazemi.

A big thank you to The Conference for hosting this conversation.