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Kudzai M Mubaiwa talks about why there is a clear need for women to have resources for them to attain real freedom, with a leaning towards strong networks they can activate for tangible forms of wealth. The conversation emphasizes how economic empowerment brings options. Investor Saint + Future + Female + Zimbabwe + iZone Hub + open:fora ----more---- iZone Hub is a Zimbabwean Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Community Development Hub that serves women and youth makers, innovators, creatives, small business owners. We help them develop their enterprises in the digital age and promote creation over consumption. Financial & Digital Literacy Trainer | Personal Finance & Small Business Columnist Kudzai M Mubaiwa is an economic development professional and financial educator who is the founder of Investor Saint (Private) Limited. She is a cofounder of iZone Hub that serves youth and women entrepreneurs and innovators. Her passion is to increase the financial and digital literacy of individuals and small business owners – enabling them to create wealth and ultimately escape poverty – whilst leveraging the opportunity of the internet. Kudzai anchors a personal finance radio program and writes for a weekly business newspaper on small business. Investor Saint iZone Hub Twitter: @kedukudzi @iZoneHub   Open:fora Feminist Cafè (OFFC) AfricaOSH (Africa Open Science & Hardware) & AfricArXiv Art as Protest open:fora weeklong neighbourhood open culture event in Berlin's deep West. In times of increasing illiberal democracy (Orbàn), upload filters and Exiteering the pressures on our freedoms to act, share culture and make voices heard, reinforces the urgency to act on how we as global citizens can reclaim our collective res publica. Joining our team members from South Sudan and GIG (Global Innovation Gathering) network guests working for open cultures across five continents, open:fora invites all our neighbours, friends, students, activists and all those interested in creating resonant open cultures, technologies and ecologies in celebrating with us! Hosted by r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation gGmbH and Open Source Ecology Germany e.V., open:fora offers an opportunity to engage with, build and discuss that which drives critical positions on open technologies, media literacy and capacity building not only at home, but in the challenging post-conflict environments our organisations often work in. STEAM (Science Tech Engineering Art Math), #ASKotec (Access to Skills and Knowledge – open tech emergency case), PAPERPCB (symbiotic synthesizers), Open:fora Feminist Cafè (OFFC), MMN - Migrant Media Networks, AfricaOSH (Africa Open Science & Hardware), #defyhatenow, AfricArXiv, Heteropia, and Art as Protest are some of codeplay key words marking a range of activities that ALL are invited to join. twitter: @intertwilight facebook: opencultureagency programm: https://www.open-fora.org/ open:fora supported by #GuerrillaFoundation     Thank you for tuning in, we hope you enjoyed listening as much as we did talking! Transit Lounge Radio is 100% independently produced, and ad-free. Your generous support, event invitations and sharing to community networks will help to keep the conversation free-flowing! Support independent radio! Donate & keep the conversation flowing Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Subscribe to TLR RSS Feed Invite Transit Lounge Radio to your event! signal at transitloungeradio dot net tags: r0g_agency, open-fora, guerrilla foundation, open culture, Berlin, transit lounge, radio, podcast, conversation, Kudzai Mubaiwa, izonehub, investorsaint, Zimbabwe, women, economy, finance, empowerment, business, incubator, start-up  

Friedrich Lindenberg talks me through the investigative journalism data tools developed by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and details of the Azerbaijani Laundromat. He is optimistic about the potential for lasting and significant structural change to dismantle the complex financial industries that support organised crime & money laundering worldwide. We agree on the importance of pirate radio! Organised Crime + Money Laundering + Data Journalism + OCCRP + #DNL15 ----more---- Data Team Lead, OCCRP, Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, DE Friedrich Lindenberg leads the data team at OCCRP. He is responsible for the development of OCCRP Data and supports ongoing investigations where data analysis is needed. In 2014/2015, Friedrich was a Knight International journalism fellow with the International Center for Journalists, working with the African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR), and in 2013 he was a Knight-Mozilla Open News fellow at Spiegel Online in Hamburg. Prior to that, Friedrich was an open data activist, and worked to promote the release of government information about public finance, lobbying, procurement and law-making across the world. Twitter: @pudo OCCRP: Azerbaijani Landromat OCCRP: The Russian Laundromat Exposed OCCRP: Investigative Tools (Find online sources / Search for leads / Map your investigation) OCCRP: Database for Researchers (145 Million entries) OCCRP: Data Visualisation Tools (for investigators) Guardian: Everything about the Azerbaijani Laundromat Reuters: National Crime Agency Account Freezing Order The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is an investigative reporting platform formed by 40 non-profit investigative centers, scores of journalists and several major regional news organizations around the globe. Our network is spread across Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. We teamed up in 2006 to do transnational investigative reporting and promote technology-based approaches to exposing organized crime and corruption worldwide. We help journalists anywhere to trace people, companies and assets across the globe. Our team has worked on dozens of award-winning investigations in different regions. Their support is free for reporters from anywhere in the world. DARK HAVENS PANEL LEAKING MASSIVE DATASETS: Security, Openness, and Collective Mobilisation Ryan Gallagher (Investigative Reporter & Editor, The Intercept, UK) Friedrich Lindenberg (Data Team Lead, OCCRP, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, DE) Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE) This panel poses issues of security and openness related to the analysis of data leaks and strategies of indexing data, to journalists, technical experts, researchers, and the larger civic society. In the case of the Panama Papers (April 2016) 11.5 million financial and legal records were leaked in 2015 from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca; those were followed by the Bahamas Leaks (September 2016), where 1.3 million internal company register files were leaked; later, the Paradise Papers (November 2017) were a set of 13.4 million leaked confidential electronic documents about offshore investments. This huge amount of information was all leaked to the Süddeutsche Zeitung reporters Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer, who shared it with the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) who coordinated a worldwide investigation. Ryan Gallagher (The Intercept) and Friedrich Lindenberg (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, OCCRP) discuss the ethics of massive data leaks, security and secrecy vs. openness and transparency, as well as source protection and collective mobilisation in the analysis of the material. DARK HAVENS Confronting Hidden Money & Power #DNL15 DARK HAVENS brings together people from around the world who have been part of global investigations and leaks, have blown the whistle on corporations, been put on trial, and who have taken severe personal risks to confront hidden money and power. 15th conference of the Disruption Network Lab. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In cooperation with Transparency International. Disruption Network Lab: Dark Havens Twitter: @disruptberlin    Thank you for tuning in, we hope you enjoyed listening as much as we did talking! Transit Lounge Radio is 100% independently produced, and ad-free. Your generous support, event invitations and sharing to community networks will help to keep the conversation free-flowing! Support independent radio! 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Simon Shuster talks in the Transit Lounge at Dark Havens about the importance of the work journalists do as the immune system of a society. "Investigative journalists expose things most people would agree we do not want – organised crime, corruption, illicit wealth and inequalities." As journalists bring these secrets to light, it's important for people to understand and hear what we do, to have the media literacy to understand the kinds of conversations and complexity that goes into dealing with a story, and the synergy between journalists and activists in civil society to push for change. Tax Havens + Investigative Journalism + Time Magazine + Berlin + #DNL15 ----more---- Simon Shuster (Berlin Reporter for TIME, RU/DE) Simon Shuster has been the Berlin bureau chief of Time Magazines since 2013, responsible for coverage of Central and Eastern Europe. Born in Moscow and raised in San Francisco, his work in the last few years has focused on the European refugee crisis, the rise of right-wing populism and Russian hybrid warfare from Ukraine to the US. @shustry Articles by Simon Shuster It's Business as Usual for Russians in Sudan, Despite Bashir's Fall How Putin Built a Ragtag Empire of Tyrants and Failing States She Was Next in Line to Be the President. He Plays One on TV. Who Will Win Ukraine's Election? (spoiler alert: the comedian) DARK HAVENS Confronting Hidden Money & Power #DNL15 DARK HAVENS brings together people from around the world who have been part of global investigations and leaks, have blown the whistle on corporations, been put on trial, and who have taken severe personal risks to confront hidden money and power. 15th conference of the Disruption Network Lab. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In cooperation with Transparency International. Disruption Network Lab: Dark Havens Twitter: @disruptberlin Artistic Director and Curator: Tatiana Bazzichelli Community Director: Lieke Ploeger Programme Managers: Daniela Silvestrin, Nada Bakr, Monti Harmony Thank you for tuning in, we hope you enjoyed listening as much as we did talking! Transit Lounge Radio is 100% independently produced, and ad-free. Your generous support, event invitations and sharing to community networks will help to keep the conversation free-flowing! Support independent radio! Donate & keep the conversation flowing Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Subscribe to TLR RSS Feed Invite Transit Lounge Radio to record conversations at your event: signal at transitloungeradio dot net #DNL15, Transparency, Panama Papers, investigative journalism, tax justice, offshore tax havens, disruption, network, Dark Havens, Disruption Network Lab, journalism, treasure islands, finance curse, offshore tour operator, Paradise Papers, Lux Leaks, whistleblower, UBS, ICIJ, OCCRP, Berlin, transit lounge, radio, podcast, conversation, Simon Shuster, Time Magazine

HOW TO SHORT CAPITALISM: THE CRYPTO-POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ECSA Economic Space Agency (ECSA) is building the next generation network infrastructure for programmable economies. Most blockchain and distributed ledger technologies applications are oriented toward the creation of distributed markets, reinforcing rather than disrupting oligarchic concentration of wealth over time and questioning what “value” is actually traded. ECSA offers something different: a fully integrated, commons-oriented approach to cryptoeconomy. Economic Space + Cryptophilosophy + Post-Capitalism + Speculative Economy + Fabulation I met with Erik Bordeleau at the ECSA 'Economic Space Design Program' in the Haus der Statistik Werkstatt in Berlin to find out exactly what is 'Economic Space' and how we can claim agency. The readings and notes come from the subsequent 'Token Logic Design' seminar series with Erik at the School of Disobedience, Art and the Blockchain. ----more---- Edited transcript: JR: Can you tell me what exactly the Economic Space Agency is? I imagine intergalatic cryptocurrencies… EB: As it exists now comes from an initiative called ‘Robin Hood Hedge Fund Coop’ making captures on the actual financial markets. We were able to gather some money and redistribute it to projects that we found interesting. Commons-oriented projects essentially. And then blockchain and distributed ledger technologies came in. We were being Robin Hoods of the traditional markets, which can only go up to a certain point. Then with distributed ledger technologies, you can start to imagine creating new markets or new financial stratas that you can start operating with. The way I understand it is the opportunity to create a thousand financial plateaus, from which you can start deterritorializing finance as it exists, and start making value a little bit more multi-dimensional. One of the things we used to say at ECSA is that we are stuck in a mono economy, where everything gets valued within a very narrow set of coordinates, which we call capitalism. Which generates as all we know tremendous externalities. The way forward towards a post-capitalist economy needs to be towards recognising all these values that are considered external to our economic system. JR: What is fabulation? EB: Fabulation is a way of saying that you can't think of the 'real' economy, as opposed to the speculative economy. The economy is always speculative, all the way down. That's not something to judge, or it's not something to deplore. It's something to accept, to deal with, so we need to accept that we are also part of self-fulfilling prophecies or processes. We are part of that. We're a little bit lunatic at times, we are entertaining ideas that seem completely incredible. But it's part of the game. The economic game is fuelled with dreams, and fabulation is a term to name the passage from the virtual to the actual. As one philosopher I really like says 'Only people who are dreaming can modify someone else's dream'. You can't just go up to someone and make them change their minds. You have to be meeting people in the space where they dream, they're also dreaming of something... So, the open office was organised here at Haus der Statistik which is a dream itself. But a dream with a fantastic reality.. I would like to have this collective adventure keep on going, and grow organically. So there's a mix of fantasy, craziness, crazy ambition that we express collectively, but I also want other types of intelligences that are more grounded, closer to the granular aspects of all the relationality of our lives. I want that to be more and more part of our process. Because that's how something sustainable, organic will sustain in the future. That's really important. We're coming in with quite radical ideas but they need to be translated, converted into practices of different kinds, and that's what I envision for the future. A very multi-dimensional proliferating set of practices that share some sort of common financial or alter-financial understanding, so that we can federate when necessary for a common agenda, but otherwise most of the time developing these practices for their own sake. Economic Space Agency is a group of radical economists, software architects, finance theorists, game designers, critical thinkers and artists, coming together to reimagine the future of the economy. Our crew in Berlin includes, among others: Akseli Virtanen, Pekko Koskinen, Jackie Vu, James Foley, Jon Beller, Joel E. Mason, Erik Bordeleau, Fabian Bruder, Emma Stenström, Emanuele Braga, Tirdad Zolghadr, Matthias Einhoff and more. *** Erik Bordeleau Erik Bordeleau is researcher at the SenseLab (Concordia University, Montreal), fugitive finance planner at the Economic Space Agency (ECSA) and affiliated researcher at the Center for Arts, Business & Culture of the Stockholm School of Economics. His work articulates at the intersection of political philosophy, media and financial theory, contemporary art and cinema studies, with a marked interest for the speculative turn and the renewal of the question of the possible in contemporary thinking. He recently taught a seminar series in critical cryptoeconomics at the School of Disobedience at Volksbühne (Berlin) and is currently working on the creation of an MA program in Cryptoeconomics at the Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS). With Saloranta & De Vylder, he is developing The Sphere, a p2p community platform for self-organization in the performing arts, which is also part of ABC’s research projects. He is based in Berlin. Erik Bordeleau PhD ECSA on Medium     Economic Space Agency (ECSA) ECSA STACK Gravity:: Distributed Runtime Gravity provides secure computational containment, serialization, persistence, networking, and hardware interfaces to be utilized upwards throughout the ECSA stack. Gravity Protocol The Gravity protocol provides event ordering, scaling, strong security, fail recovery and high availability. It ensures network wide consistency, and enables distributed atomic transactions. Space:: Organizational Expression Space is a grammar for the creation of programmable organizations which can seamlessly combine models of governance and economy. It provides Gravity with an organizational programming environment, utilizing Gravity's implementation of object capabilities. Space Protocol:: Organizational Interoperability The Space Protocol allows the organizational forms of Space to interoperate, regardless of their implementation substrate, establishing fully organizable economic networks. Economic Space:: Value Expression ECSA's offer:: networked value production, distribution and measurement through a new economic abstraction:: The Economic Space. Economic Space Protocols:: Economic Interoperability Protocols and models such as distributed exchange, trading units, synthetic indexing and network derivatives enable the creation of organizational forms with a shared economic grammar. Economic Space Agency (Medium.com) A global collective working to remake the DNA of the economy. Programmed decentralised commons production, April 2017 Video: After Scarcity "A compelling economic sci-fi is mathematic disguised in a well-crafted storyline." SCREENING + DISCUSSION around "After Scarcity" (Bahar Noorizadeh, 2019) with Stefan Heidenreich and Economic Space Agency. Haus der Statistik, Monday 6th May, 19:30 to 22:00 pm  For many of us, computer technology seems almost inseparable from the corporate hypercapitalism of Silicon Valley. In "After Scarcity", Bahar Noorizadeh explores the soviet cybernetic past in search of our possible post-neoliberal future. "How might we use computation to get us out of our current state of digital feudalism and towards new possible utopias? After all, what would Vladimir "socialism is electricity plus statistic" Lenin have to say about blockchain?" This fascinating 30 min. sci-fi essay film will act as a free indirect entry point for a wider discussion around the disruptive potential of crypto- and cyber-economies. Including: Stefan Heidenreich's recent work around a non-money economy partly based on algorithmic matching formulas, and ECSA's general proposal to build a financial and computational infrastructure for post-hayekian economy. “Flying through swarms of floating dots outlining monasteries and city streets, After Scarcity flashes through decades of history to propose the ways contingent pasts can make fictive futures realer, showing us that digital socialism was inbred into the communist revolution and that computation doesn’t mean we’re condemned to today’s tyranny of total financialization.” Complementary readings Imagine there's no money: dialogue between Stefan Heidenreich & Geert Lovink  Geert Lovink: German media theorist Stefan Heidenreich has produced a concise proposal for a ‘non-monetary economy’. The book is entitled */Money/* and came out late 2017 with Merve Verlag in Berlin. Excerpts in English can be found at the Transmediale website. There we find the following description of Heidenreich’s project: ‘Given complex information infrastructures that have already been developed for documenting transactions, tying consumer habits to identities, and accurately predicting future exchanges, the substructure of a new kind of economy is now in place.’ March 2018 How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet. Peters, B. (2016) Cambridge: MIT Press. Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream. Spufford, F. (2010). London: Faber & Faber. Review by Philip Cunliffe In the fifties, Soviet economic growth made it seem that the USSR might still win on the front of delivering material abundance to the masses: ‘Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan, and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche’... The heroes of Spufford’s Soviet dream are an entire generation of peasants brutally torn off the land and propelled on an astonishing ascent in the breakneck process of Soviet industrialisation. Dictionary of Now #9 | Philip Mirowski Markets as Computer Programs in a Theory of Markets Video introduction to Mirowski's work on Hayek MONEYLAB Resources A constantly-updated resourceful collec

Frederik Obermaier on global crime & collaborative reporting, the demise of the 'lone wolf' investigative journalist, Panama Papers cocktails, writing that email to Vladimir Putin, and a thank you message to John/Jane Doe for the 11.5 million files contained in the Panama Papers. The stories are global, crimes are global and journalism needs to be global: Frederik dishes on the complexities of working collaboratively with 400 journalists from 80 countries over a year to publish the Panama Papers. Tax Havens + Investigative Journalism + Collaboration + Panama Papers + #DNL15 ----more---- Frederik Obermaier Investigative journalist, Süddeutsche Zeitung, DE "It was a difficult process, to be honest. Our editor-in-chief (Wolfgang Krach) was a big fan of collaborations, so he encouraged us to share the data. It think he's a visionary in this aspect. We also had colleagues who asked us: 'Frederik, Bastian are you stupid? You're sharing a scoop! Why should you?' Sometimes they're in this old lonely wolf mindset, journalists, especially investigative journalists being the lonely wolf not sharing anything even with his outlet... always secretive, always hunting for the scoop. These times are over in journalism. I think in investigative journalism, it's now the pack, the power of the pack. And it's only logical because crime is not limited to one country anymore. We're speaking about transnational organised crime groups. So it's only logical to team up as journalists to tackle this problem, to uncover it. And I think we need more. We do see a lot of collaborations currently in journalism, and I think that's good. The more, the merrier!" Frederik Obermaier is a Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter for the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s leading broadsheet. He is one of the two reporters first contacted by the anonymous source of the Panama Papers, the leaked documents that prompted a global investigation involving hundreds of journalists. He also initiated the Paradise Papers-revelations. Obermaier is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, ICIJ.org. Photo by Stefanie Preuin/SZ If you have data, contact Frederik Obermaier using a secure channel & encrypted communication. Please note that unencrypted email, skype and phone calls are highly susceptible to being monitored or accessed. Contact details on his website Email encryption via PGP Threema: FPN4FKZE Documentary: The Panama Papers (2018), directed by Alex Winter (TRAILER) “We’ve said it again and again: some stories are too big, too complex and too global for lone-wolf muckrakers or even individual news organisations to tackle. We believe collaboration is the wave of the future in global journalism. Pooling resources and sharing information is a powerful way to investigate and expose stories that politicians, corporations and organized criminals are determined to keep in the shadows.” Gerard Ryle, Director ICIJ Panama Papers wins Pulitzer Prize How the Panama Papers were unwrapped Reporting on The Panama Papers Reporting on The Paradise Papers The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money, by Bastian Obermayer & Frederik Obermaier. The inside story from the journalists who set the investigation in motion. ICIJ Investigations: Panama Papers / Paradise Papers ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database OCCRP: Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project Forbidden Stories: Network of Journalists Twitter: @f_obermaier PANAMA PAPERS: How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money WATCH VIDEO: DARK HAVENS KEYNOTE Frederik Obermaier (Investigative Journalist, Süddeutsche Zeitung, DE). Moderated by Max Heywood (Transparency International Global Outreach and Advocacy Coordinator, UK/DE). The Panama Papers began with a cryptic message from an anonymous whistleblower. “Hello, this is John Doe,” the source wrote. “Interested in data?” In the months that followed, the confidential source transferred emails, client data and scanned letters, from Mossack Fonseca, a notorious Panamanian law firm that has not only helped prime ministers, kings and presidents hide their money, but has also provided services to dictators, drug cartels, Mafia clans, fraudsters, weapons dealers, and regimes like North Korea or Iran. After the revelation several heads of governments had to step down, thousands of investigations were launched, approximately one billion $ recouped. The Panama Papers proved that there is a whole parallel world offshore in which the rich and powerful enjoy the freedom to avoid not just taxes but all kinds of laws they find inconvenient. In this Keynote, Süddeutsche Zeitung investigative journalist Frederik Obermaier reflects on the Panama Papers and their impact (arrests, changes in legislation etc.), as well as the crucial roles of whistleblowers and the need to protect them. In conversation with Max Heywood, the dialogue addresses what we learnt from The Panama Papers about political and economic power, what progress has been made against tax and dark havens, and how the Panama Papers have changed the way journalists think about and analyse tax havens. DARK HAVENS Confronting Hidden Money & Power #DNL15 DARK HAVENS brings together people from around the world who have been part of global investigations and leaks, have blown the whistle on corporations, been put on trial, and who have taken severe personal risks to confront hidden money and power. 15th conference of the Disruption Network Lab. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In cooperation with Transparency International. Disruption Network Lab: Dark Havens Twitter: @disruptberlin   Thank you for tuning in, we hope you enjoyed listening as much as we did talking! Transit Lounge Radio is 100% independently produced, and ad-free. Your generous support, event invitations and sharing to community networks will help keep the conversation free-flowing! Relax in the VIP Lounge Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Subscribe to TLR RSS Feed Invite Transit Lounge Radio to record a series of conversations at your world changing event: signal at transitloungeradio dot net #DNL15, Transparency, Panama Papers, investigative journalism, tax justice, offshore tax havens, disruption, network, Dark Havens, Disruption Network Lab, journalism, treasure islands, finance curse, offshore tour operator, Paradise Papers, Lux Leaks, whistleblower, UBS, ICIJ, OCCRP, Berlin, transit lounge, radio, podcast, conversation, Frederik Obermaier, Süddeutsche Zeitung

RYBN.ORG RYBN walk us through the Offshore Tour Operator to explore local traces of the transnational and liquid financial industry, and introduce classic tax avoidance schemes the Double Irish, Singapore Sling, Bermuda Black hole and Dutch Sandwich. Offshore Tour Operator directs the user through addresses from the ICIJ Offshore Leaks database to discover & map the local premises of businesses listed in the Offshore Leaks, Bahamas Leaks, Panama Papers, and Paradise Papers. A situationist GPS prototype for psychogeographic drift encouraging you to create concrete visual representation of the opaque and offshore, thus reshaping the imaginary around tax havens. Photographs of buildings listed at each address capture the offshore economies in the local landscape, architecture and environments. Tax Haven Tourism + Algorithmic Investment + Psychogeography + Art as Financial Optimiser + #DNL15 ----more---- Financial optimisation through art, it turns out only works for dead, (mostly) white & male artists, and collectors who can afford to stash excess cash in anonymous shell companies and complex trusts to hide their money through the acquisition of art. It doesn't work so well for living artists, who apparently can't transform themselves into tax havens to help offset billionaires income. I, like most artists could help you write off millions through conceptual art, feel free to call anytime! ALGOFFSHORE TAX OPTIMIZER THROUGH ART is a system that generates tax optimization schemes, using art as a speculative vehicle. Taking advantage of every possible offshoring strategy to compute a personalised solution for any interested art collector, the user can customise the optimisation scheme with personalised parameters and dedicated algorithms. RYBN.ORG Extra-disciplinary Artistic Research Platform, FR RYBN.ORG is a Paris-based collective founded in 1999. The collective follows an extra-disciplinary investigation methodology on the functioning of complex and esoteric phenomena and systems - high frequency markets structure, algorithmic trading strategies, offshore banking networks, kabbalah hermeneutics, digital labor and human computers, computer viruses, etc. Their works have been presented in many art centers and festivals internationally. Explore Psychogeographies of the Financial Imaginary uncovering  tax havens hidden in plain sight through counter-financial dérive. RYBN Offshore Tour Operator Offshore Tour Operator is a situationist GPS prototype, orientated toward a computer assisted psychogeographic drift, that dictates the walk of the user through the ICIJ Offshore Leaks database addresses - including the Offshore Leaks, the Bahamas Leaks, the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers. The prototype exists in two versions : a DIY open hardware version, using a raspberry pi 0 coupled to a GPS, and an android app. RYBN Algoffshores RYBN Resources: academic papers on tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax havens and fiscal optimisation Offshore Tour Operator, Art as Financial Optimiser Neural.it Art, Capital of the 21st Century Offshore Tour Operator on We Make Money Not Art Twitter: @RYBn_ Image credits: RYBN & LISTE BASEL Offshore Tour Operator / Algoffshore - The Great Offshore, RYBN.ORG / Exhibition HeK at LISTE Art Fair Basel, 2018, curated by Boris Magrini - courtesy of Ivana Krešič. RYBN.ORG THE GREAT OFFSHORE RYBN.ORG (Extra-disciplinary Artistic Research Platform, FR) Moderated by Ela Kagel (Digital Strategist and Founder of SUPERMARKT Berlin, DE) RYBN presents the “The Great Offshore” project, an artistic investigation conducted in several tax havens. The Great Offshore addresses the question of representation of offshore finance: due to its opaque nature and the secrecy that surrounds it, it is impossible to picture. The symbolic representations that are usually in use are, as many invitations to evasion, filled by colonial images of exotic islands, of palm trees beaches and golden sands, infinite walls of numbered mailboxes, that contribute to the aestheticisation of financial power. In a similar fashion, as Alain Deneault underlines it, the vocabulary in use to describe offshore finance is not neutral, and produces a positive, technical, legal and legitimate picture, that neutralizes critics. As a consequence, either within semantics or semiotics, we face a representation crisis. To overcome this representation failure, The Great Offshore project seeks for traces of this transnational and liquid financial industry, to capture how it marks local landscapes, architectures and environments. The Great Offshore project aims to reshape the imaginary around tax havens, by re-engaging with the situationist strategies of psycho-geography, enhanced by digital and algorithmic means. During the talk, RYBN unfold the different chapters that composed the project and its artistic, semiotic and political dimensions. + Workshop / Psycho-Geographic Tour  of Berlin shell companies & shadow finance offices with RYBN.org. What is psychogeography? :: an exploration of urban environments that emphasizes playfulness and "drifting," originating with the Situationist International movement. Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals." It has also been defined as "a total dissolution of boundaries between art and life," and "a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities... just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape. Psychogeography: delve into the soul of a city Siobhan Lyons The Conversation 2017 Psychogeography, as the term suggests, is the intersection of psychology and geography. It focuses on our psychological experiences of the city, and reveals or illuminates forgotten, discarded, or marginalised aspects of the urban environment: The transition of a space from one use to another undergirds much of psychogeography’s preoccupation; the notion of a palimpsest – an object or piece of writing with new material superimposed over earlier writings – is particularly important. Psychogeography thrives as an interrogation of space and history; it compels us to abandon – at least temporarily – our ordinary conceptions of the face value of a location, so that we may question its mercurial history. DARK HAVENS Confronting Hidden Money & Power #DNL15 DARK HAVENS brings together people from around the world who have been part of global investigations and leaks, have blown the whistle on corporations, been put on trial, and who have taken severe personal risks to confront hidden money and power. 15th conference of the Disruption Network Lab. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In cooperation with Transparency International. Disruption Network Lab: Dark Havens Twitter: @disruptberlin   Thank you for tuning in, we hope you enjoyed listening as much as we did talking! Transit Lounge Radio is 100% independently produced, and ad-free. Your generous support, event invitations and sharing to community networks will help to keep the conversation free-flowing! 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Nicholas Shaxson unveils the secrets of the seriously, filthy rich and talks me through how many of the world's offshore tax havens are not only tropical islands, but actually British & OECD territories. Just what effect does that shadowy 'spider web' network of wealth extraction have on our societies? How are offshore tax havens central to the global economy? What is the finance curse? Listen to find out more! Tax Havens + Treasure Islands + Finance Curse + Tax Justice Network + #DNL15 ----more---- Nicholas Shaxson (Journalist, author Treasure Islands & Finance Curse, UK/DE) Nicholas Shaxson: The Finance Curse The Guardian: How the outsized power of the city of London makes Britain poorer Open Democracy: The men who stole the world The Finance Curse: Buy the Book Tax Justice Network: Nicholas Shaxson Tax Justice Network: Finance Curse The Guardian: Finance Curse Review The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire Nicholas Shaxson: Treasure Islands Twitter: @nickshaxson Nicholas Shaxson is a British writer, journalist and investigator. He is author of the acclaimed books The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making us all Poorer (2018); Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World (2012); and Poisoned Wells: the Dirty Politics of African Oil (2007). He is a writer and researcher for the Tax Justice Network, an expert-led group focused on tax and tax havens. In 2012 the International Tax Review named him as one of its “Global Tax 50” most influential people in international tax. He has written for The Financial Times, Reuters, Vanity Fair, the Economist and the BBC, as well as many other publications. Nicholas Shaxson Photo credit: Mark Garner (Grove Atlantic) Watch the Documentary: 'The Spider's Web' At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies are the largest global players in the world of international finance. The Spider's Web was written, directed and produced by Michael Oswald, and was substantially inspired by Nicholas Shaxson's book Treasure Islands, an extensive éxpose on the global consequences of tax havens. For those interested to learn more about tax justice and financial secrecy, read about the Tax Justice Network's campaigning and regular blogs - become part of the movement for change and listen to the Tax Justice Network's monthly podcast: the Taxcast. HIDDEN TREASURES How the Global Shadow Economy Drives Inequality WATCH VIDEO Nicholas Shaxson (Journalist, author of Treasure Islands, and Finance Curse, UK/DE), Maira Martini (Senior Policy Advisor, Transparency International, BR/DE). Moderated by Simon Shuster (Reporter for TIME, RU/DE). This panel introduces the topic of offshore secrecy and tax havens bringing together two experts of the field. Nicholas Shaxson will refer to his book Treasure Islands: Dirty Money, Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole Your Cash, where he describes the connections between global economic affairs since slavery and secretive offshore tax havens. In his analysis, dirty money, tax havens and the offshore system contributed to generate global inequalities and shift of wealth from poor to rich, as well as undermining our democracies via financial deregulations. Maìra Martini will describe the schemes connecting shell companies, multiple offshore bank accounts, and money laundering, by referring to her work at Transparency International on a report on the role of banks in cross-border corruption cases. DARK HAVENS Confronting Hidden Money & Power #DNL15 DARK HAVENS brings together people from around the world who have been part of global investigations and leaks, have blown the whistle on corporations, been put on trial, and who have taken severe personal risks to confront hidden money and power. 15th conference of the Disruption Network Lab. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In cooperation with Transparency International. 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Stéphanie Gibaud talks about becoming a spy for the French authorities, the impact on her life and ongoing search for justice after blowing the whistle on tax fraud at UBS. Tax Havens + UBS + Whistleblowers + Tax Justice + #DNL15 ----more---- UBS Whistleblower, FR Twitter: @Steph_and_me Stéphanie Gibaud wrote the book Whistleblowers: The Man Hunt (2017) with an introduction by Julian Assange. In 2018, she was a jury member of the GUE/NGL Award in honor of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. She will also be a jury member in 2019. As a Public Relations specialist, if I had shredded the documents UBS suddenly asked me to destroy in 2008, I could have risked prison. I was working for UBS Marketing Department and had absolutely no idea of the scope of the documents, which I was supposed to get rid of. Searches were taking place; I refused to be part of illegal activities & blew the whistle internally. When in a weakened state because of the harassment I was suffering at UBS, I was targeted by the French state in 2011 and, constraint by the law, had to communicate confidential information to the French Ministry of Finances, which have widely helped to identify numerous offshore bank accounts. Stéphanie Gibaud Whistleblowers: The Man Hunt La traque des lanceurs d’alerte, Stéphanie Gibaud Préface de Julian Assange, Publisher Max Milo Editions UBS ordered to pay £3.9bn by French court over raft of violations UBS Whistleblower’s Paltry Reward FT: How French authorities used a whistleblower to sting UBS bankers (read article) by David Keohane in Paris, March 1, 2019 *UBS were eventually fined €4.5 billion for recruiting clients in France and helping them evade taxes. #DNL15 DARK HAVENS brings together people from around the world who have been part of global investigations and leaks, have blown the whistle on corporations, been put on trial, and who have taken severe personal risks to confront hidden money and power. 15th conference of the Disruption Network Lab. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli. In cooperation with Transparency International. Twitter: @disruptberlin Thank you for tuning in, we hope you've enjoyed listening as we did making the program. Transit Lounge Radio is 100% independently produced, your generous support keeps the conversation flowing! Relax in the VIP Lounge Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Subscribe to TLR RSS Feed #DNL15, Transparency International, Panama Papers, investigative journalism, tax justice, offshore tax havens, disruption, network, dark havens, disruption network lab, conversation, journalism, treasure island, finance curse, offshore tour operator, paradise papers, lux leaks, whistleblower, UBS, ICIJ, OCCRP, Berlin, Stéphanie Gibaud, whistle blowers, Man Hunt, Max Milo, France, Switzerland

Tomer Sofinzon offers a glimpse into the future with an open-source personal data locker and digital assistant, and promises me the Pillar Project unconference [Vilnius 15-21st July] is not only for geeks! Blockchain + Bitcoin + Pillar + ICO + Cryptocurrency + Data + Finance + Society + Technology ----more---- Pillar Project: Your data, your life The goal of the Pillar Project is to return control over personal data back to its rightful owner - you. Starting with an open-source wallet to store, transact, and track cryptocurrencies and tokens, the Pillar Wallet will evolve into a decentralised, personal data-management platform. Tomer Sofinzon Co-founder/CRO at Pillar Project Tomer Sofinzon has spent over 15 years between the US, Europe, and Israel, concentrating on technology entrepreneurship and investments. Tomer founded eight companies, among which is the Pillar Project, where he’s the founder & Chief Business Development Officer. The Pillar Project is an open-source, blockchain-based wallet that will evolve to become your personal digital assistant and the dashboard for your digital life; it promises to bring data sovereignty, financial inclusion, and the power of a “pull” economy to people around the globe. Tomer has made multiple angel investments and has worked extensively in venture capital, focusing on strategic partnerships. [Edited transcript to follow] TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 LOGIN 2018 – the first, largest, most uncompromising innovation bash in the Baltics. At LOGIN, the roadmap for INNOVATION is TECHNOLOGY x CREATIVITY x BUSINESS. Whether you’re a blockchain geek, a currencies philosopher or a sophisticated designer, if you believe your desk isn’t the only place where innovation happens – you must LOGIN! Content isn’t everything. Context is everything. Transit Lounge Radio brings you conversations from LOGIN 2018! Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes Apple Podcasts make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Conversation, Nomadic, Future, Design, Society, Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneur, Data, Money, Cryptocurrency, Login, Storytelling, Creativity, Geeks, Blockchain, Blockgeeks, FinTech, loginreality, Pillar Project, Podcast, Transit Lounge

Viktorija Mickutė brings immersive documentaries to life, sharing diverse voices and a global perspective with stories told by the people most directly affected by climate change, food insecurity and conflict in personal and community narratives. Storytelling + AR + VR + Creativity + Audio-visual + Global + Innovation + Journalism + Contrast----more---- Contrast VR on Al Jazeera “pushes the boundaries of narrative storytelling while taking viewers directly to the front lines of the biggest news events in the world.” @VikVicariously Beyond Romanticizing the Jungle - Filming Indigenous Communities in 360 Contrast VR Weekly Blog on Medium Viktorija Mickutė Producer at Contrast VR, Al Jazeera VIKTORIJA MICKUTĖ is a producer at Contrast VR, Al Jazeera’s captivating media studio, which focuses on the use of VR technologies to tell stories from around the world. Her recent VR destinations reach as far as Yemen, Mumbai, Morocco, the Malaysian jungle, and others. Viktorija is not only expanding 360 storytelling herself, but she’s also empowering more people all over the world to use VR in creating genuine content. [Edited transcript to follow] TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 LOGIN 2018 – the first, largest, most uncompromising innovation bash in the Baltics. At LOGIN, the roadmap for INNOVATION is TECHNOLOGY x CREATIVITY x BUSINESS. Whether you’re a blockchain geek, a currencies philosopher or a sophisticated designer, if you believe your desk isn’t the only place where innovation happens – you must LOGIN! Content isn’t everything. Context is everything. Transit Lounge Radio brings you conversations from LOGIN 2018! Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on Apple Podcasts make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Conversation, Nomadic, VR, Future, Design, Society, Technology, Innovation, Journalism, Women, Login, Storytelling, Creativity, Radio, loginreality, Al Jazeera, Contrast

Oobah shares his playful take on creativity, absurdity and infamy with the Shed at Dulwich, TripAdvisor's #1 Fake Restaurant in London: "All you're allowed to know about London's best kept secret." Storytelling + Creativity + Internet + Absurd + Humour + Fake ----more---- Watch the video to journey into Oobah's invented reality, as he had celebrities, foodies and blogger vying to book a table at a non-existent restaurant, with the help of "fake reviews, mystique and nonsense." Vice: How to have London's #1 Fake Restaurant on TripAdvisor “Creativity has been my life. I don’t have any other skills, really, apart from the fact I seem to be able to come up with things that entertain people. Then I guess that business has just been intuitive in the fact that I’m able to put across my ideas in a way that people understand them or want to access them.” Oobah Butler Founder of Shed at Dulwich, Journalist at Vice Creator of TripAdvisor’s top-rated FAKE restaurant, a freelance writer who uses comedy and absurdity to comment on the modern era. Over the past two years, his work has gone from quietly admired on VICE Magazine and The Guardian to being renowned globally, recently being featured in Longform’s Best of 2017 list, a profile with Scott Simon, endorsements by artist Grayson Perry, former New Yorker Editor Nicholas Thompson and other world-famous journalists. [Edited transcript to follow] TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 LOGIN 2018 – the first, largest, most uncompromising innovation bash in the Baltics. At LOGIN, the roadmap for INNOVATION is TECHNOLOGY x CREATIVITY x BUSINESS. Whether you’re a blockchain geek, a currencies philosopher or a sophisticated designer, if you believe your desk isn’t the only place where innovation happens – you must LOGIN! Content isn’t everything. Context is everything. Transit Lounge Radio brings you conversations from LOGIN 2018! Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on Apple Podcasts make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Conversation, Nomadic, Creativity, Fake, Future, Design, Society, Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneur, Login, Storytelling, Radio, Podcast, loginreality, Oobah Buttler, Shed, Trip Advisor

Jeanne Granger talks ethics at the core of social innovation, collective intelligence and empowerment in a future of creative transformation. "Are you ready for tomorrow?" Future + Design + Society + Ethics + Technology + Innovation + Creativity ----more---- TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 Founder at Futur Présent Jeanne Granger, dedicated to arts and entrepreneurship, is a founder of La Reserve des arts and Futur Present. Her newest venture creates innovative and actionable strategies that have a positive impact. In charge of co-designing innovation programs for international corporate accounts, Jeanne works with start-ups, corporations, the public and private sector to encourage businesses to evolve and adapt to a desirable future. [Edited Transcript] Jeanne Granger: “At the core of social innovation you need to build in the ethical commitment, right from the start. And that I think is facing what I call 'the tyranny of margins. We're always trying to make money first, and make sense later, or the purpose is postponed to another time – but my point is we have to build it from the start, to be viable and responsible.” Indicators or criteria for successful social innovation are not as easy as looking at your profit margins. It's complex. But what I'm trying to say is that without being the censor, or moral standard for it, is that it can actually be fun, creative and good for business, and very empowering for the people. I think motivation and engagement from your team, is what in the long run will make you successful [...] JG: I've seen shifts that I thought were not possible, CEOs saying, yeah let's do collective intelligence, and let's change the way we manage our teams - in just two days. And that experience, that feeling of living the difference, living the transformation I think is key, which is why we're here, physically together.  I think intersectionality and inclusion are words that are becoming more and more meaningful. Because we can see that the wealth comes from this mix and match of things, people, identities, cultures, backgrounds – that don't necessarily need to sacrifice themselves over another, but come together and create a hybrid solution. I am insatiably curious for these meetings to happen and for these hybrid solutions to come up - I think this is the most exciting and creative aspect of innovation. JR: What kind of metrics or how do you measure or evaluate the social impact of what you're doing? JG: It's very complex. For the second project, we are bringing together more than 20 companies and redesigning an entire neigbourhood. So we are fostering local entrepreneurship and citizen engagement. We are doing it in partnership with the city, the administration, the urban planners and the companies themselves. It's a very ambitious project but a very interesting one. TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 LOGIN 2018 – the first, largest, most uncompromising innovation bash in the Baltics. At LOGIN, the roadmap for INNOVATION is TECHNOLOGY x CREATIVITY x BUSINESS. Whether you’re a blockchain geek, a currencies philosopher or a sophisticated designer, if you believe your desk isn’t the only place where innovation happens – you must LOGIN! Content isn’t everything. Context is everything. Transit Lounge Radio brings you conversations from LOGIN 2018! Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on Apple Podcasts make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel

Toby Shapshak on innovation in Africa and mobile society Innovation + Society + Africa + Mobile + Future + Technology + STUFF ----more---- TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 Expert of Innovation in Africa KEYNOTE: Technology Toby Shapshak is the evangelist of better innovation – innovation that’s solving actual problems. For the past 15 years, he has been writing about technology and business innovations, and the impact it all has on Africa. His take on innovation born out of necessity became one of the most watched TED speeches ever. Toby started a reporter’s career by shadowing Nelson Mandela during his presidency; he then interviewed Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and has been featured in the New York Times. Today he’s the editor-in-chief and publisher of Stuff magazine, also a contributor to Forbes, Financial Mail, CNN, The Guardian, SxSW, and others "Innovation in Africa is the purest form: innovation out of necessity. Not Angry Birds, the innovations emerging from Africa allow farmers to check where they can get the best price for their produce, fishermen to be warned about storms, people to check whether medicines they are buying have expired, and rural cellphone users to send mobile money to each other using text messages. Even the pay–as–you–go payment system was pioneered in Africa." Shapshak has been writing about innovation and technology for the past 15 years and is writing a book on how it has become innovation out of necessity in Africa. He spoke at TED Global in June 2013 about how Africa is solving real problems for the rest of the world. East Africa accounts for about 80% of the world´s mobile money transactions, an industry that is projected to grow to $617–billion by 2016. All started in Kenya using the M–Pesa payment system which uses SMSes to send money like modern–day digital cheques. Now, half of Kenya´s GDP goes through mobile money. An estimated 80% of adults in Africa are unbanked, or some 326–million people. But they have a SIM card – it´s the bank card of Africa. With 1–billion people, Africa has 14% of the world´s population, most under the age of 30. The continent is where China was when its boom years began. Africa has been historically typecast as the “hopeless continent”. But a decade after being labelled that by The Economist, the magazine renamed it the “hopeful continent”. Six of the 10 fastest growing economies in the last decade were in Africa, according to The Economist. Sub–Saharan Africa´s real GDP growth rate has risen to an annual average of 5.7% over the past 10 years. And it is set to continue. The IMF forecasts that seven of the top 10 fastest–growing economies over the next five years will be on the continent. African economies will grow at 7% a year over the next 20 years, making sub–Saharan Africa the second–fastest growing region in the world after Asia. [Text from Shapshak.com / Edited Transcript tba] Toby Shapshak on STUFF Magazine https://stuff.co.za/author/tobyshapshak/ Other Writing http://shapshak.com/writing/ [Related] Quartz Africa: How a 20-year old mobile technology protocol is revolutionizing Africa https://qz.com/1296120/how-a-20-year-old-mobile-technology-protocol-is-revolutionizing-africa/ TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 LOGIN 2018 – the first, largest, most uncompromising innovation bash in the Baltics. At LOGIN, the roadmap for INNOVATION is TECHNOLOGY x CREATIVITY x BUSINESS. Whether you’re a blockchain geek, a currencies philosopher or a sophisticated designer, if you believe your desk isn’t the only place where innovation happens – you must LOGIN! Content isn’t everything. Context is everything. Transit Lounge Radio brings you conversations from LOGIN 2018! Thank you for tuning in, we hope you've had as much fun listening as we did making the program. Transit Lounge Radio is independently produced, your support keeps the conversation flowing! Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel  

Daniel Soares on taking risks and living creatively. Storytelling + Film + Creativity + Speed + Passion + Humour ----more----TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 Independent movie maker & Creative Director Daniel Soares is a filmmaker who grew up in Germany and Portugal and is currently based in New York City. Daniel’s work reflects his interest in the quirks, oddities and passions of humanity. Before starting his career as a film director, he worked as a creative at various agencies including Droga5, AKQA, Mother and Anomaly. He has experience working with clients such as Beats by Dre, Viceland and Jordan Brand. His work has been featured in The Guardian, Mashable and The New York Times and exhibited at the International Center of Photography. [Edited Transcript]   TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 LOGIN 2018 – the first, largest, most uncompromising innovation bash in the Baltics. At LOGIN, the roadmap for INNOVATION is TECHNOLOGY x CREATIVITY x BUSINESS. Whether you’re a blockchain geek, a currencies philosopher or a sophisticated designer, if you believe your desk isn’t the only place where innovation happens – you must LOGIN! Content isn’t everything. Context is everything. Transit Lounge Radio brings you conversations from LOGIN 2018! Thank you for tuning in, we hope you've had as much fun listening as we did making the program. Transit Lounge Radio is independently produced, your support keeps the conversation flowing! Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel  

Monika Bielskytė inspiring and revolutionary ideas for imagining the future and creating it together. How the stories we tell - and those we don't - feed back into the world we live in and have effects on actual people's lives. Future + Design + Society + Ethics + Technology + Dystopia + Utopia ----more----  TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 Monika Bielskytė Future of content Strategist & Creative designer & Speaker at ALLFUTUREEVERYTHING Strategy & creative designer with focus on the future of content. Monika works to inspire people to see immersive media technology & digital formats of reality – VR, AR & MR – as tools & spaces to expand the human potential. [Edited Transcript] TBA TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 LOGIN 2018 – the first, largest, most uncompromising innovation bash in the Baltics. At LOGIN, the roadmap for INNOVATION is TECHNOLOGY x CREATIVITY x BUSINESS. Whether you’re a blockchain geek, a currencies philosopher or a sophisticated designer, if you believe your desk isn’t the only place where innovation happens – you must LOGIN! Content isn’t everything. Context is everything. Transit Lounge Radio brings you conversations from LOGIN 2018! Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes Apple Podcasts make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel

Cécile Cremer asks "where do we want to be tomorrow?" offers ideas on how to balance technology and humanity, and sketches her vision of the future in a more fluent, flexible & co-creative 2030. Future + Education + Design + Society + Ethics + Innovation ----more---- Cécile Cremer Trend & Innovation Expert at Wandering the Future Cécile is a world-wandering Trend Expert and Concept Designer. Obsessed with the future, Cécile is connecting the dots to predict what’s coming and to act on innovation instantly. At her Trend & Innovation Agency, she’s collaborating with Volkswagen, Ministry of Education UAE, BNP Paribas, Internet & Mobility World, Deutsche Telekom, and other brands all around the globe. [Edited Transcript] CC: I gave a talk about a day in the life of 2030, so I sketched a vision of the future in 2030. How do people live, how do we work, how does our social life look how important is free time, leisure. All from a consumer trend level point of view, so which value shifts and which human needs are behind the changes we will have in the future? JR: How will we be socialising, what form will work take? CC: I think the biggest challenge is the fact that we have to balance technology and humanity, because those two are in competition with each other. But one of the most exciting things about the future is if we can find that good balance we can have a seamless life, less loss of time. I truly believe that time will be the new currency – free time. And we have more time to focus on our new skills, because a lot of our known skills will be gone. But it offers us the opportunity to have a personal search for what skills do we have that we do not know about, because we don't use them? JR: You talk about how it's not a digital life but bringing something back into the real world. CC: I couldn't talk about all the trends that I see and feel right now, but one trend I think is really important I call it 'blobbing.' It's the fact where we create our own bubbles, where we are not 100 % real. Digitalisation gives us the chance to create our own 'me' so I can be who I want to be, but we lose who we really are, so we make ourselves that perfect picture, and we see how others lead a perfect life, but it's only on social media. I hope and I see for the future that we start realising more and more that that is not who we really are, and we want to leave something behind when we leave this world again. And that focus is becoming bigger and bigger. Not 'how does my hair look in this picture/', but more like, what can I tell people that I've done this weekend, or that I contributed or that I made somebody happier. JR I think that's so important, it's not this shiny, glossy idealised projection that you're putting out into the world, but actually it's some of the messy, gritty not really fully complete parts. That you're not always polished and lovely, part of being human and alive is that we have to be vulnerable with each other and show compassion and kindness towards each other. Because we're all learning and trying to make sense of it as we go along. CC: I agree with you, and that is why I am also an entrepreneur – this is my fourth year now, and after my graduation I started my company straight away, and I also share that story. I think that vulnerability of showing that it's not always, only glamour, it's also finding yourself and looking if what you do is really contributing to what you want it to be, if your message is being heard. So I also share the struggles of entrepreneurial life, and also female entrepreneurial life - not to be pitied, but sometimes in this world of big corporates and innovations, that's also an extra challenge. If you have the right message that can contribute to something better in this world, just go for it! And it's going to be hard sometimes, but it's also going to be very cool and satisfying! I brought one trend also today, it's called 'mish-mash society', because you get knowledge and skills and insights and points of view from different people, very diverse people – and I think that is the future. Merging different skills, different options together, instead of doing it alone, and opening up to for other points of view instead of saying 'this is what I think and this is how it's going to be'. Because in the end, nobody knows exactly how it's going to be. But I do believe that we have the strength and power to influence how tomorrow will look. JR: I hope we do, I think everyone here is actively seeking out ways to shape the future that we are all going to be living in. How do we apply these ideas into the lives that we're living now, and how do we make choices about our work, or our social lives? CC: I think the main answer is education. Because if you look at technology, the biggest fear of people is not knowing. And that's when a lot of fantasies grow big. On one hand it's educating people about what is really out there, and what are the possibilities? And one the other it's keeping the conversation alive, what do we want, how is it contributing to the quality of life, and IS it contributing to the quality of life? Always asking ourselves the question: “where do we want to be tomorrow?” So it's partly awareness but also being very critical about, what we are developing now, is it an answer to our instant gratification, or is it really answering a bigger issue, a really serious issue? And that is also something that is connected with the extreme consumerism we have these days, so it's quite the mind-shift we have to make, but I think it starts with education, because if people know more they can understand better. CC: My vision is that we are going to be a more co-creative world, we are becoming more social in our own circles of trust. But we are realising more and more that one voice is not loud enough, so we are connecting more. I also believe that life is becoming more fluent, more flexible, so it's less static, so it offers more opportunities to really search for what is making me happy. And I also still believe that technology is a tool to help some of the needs we have, to answer that  in the current zeitgeist. I do not believe we will be a non-technology world. We have to decide better today than tomorrow, who we want to be in charge. I think we are at the point if we wait a little bit longer, there is no choice anymore. So I believe we will make the good choice, and we will chose humanity over technology. TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 LOGIN 2018 – the first, largest, most uncompromising innovation bash in the Baltics. At LOGIN, the roadmap for INNOVATION is TECHNOLOGY x CREATIVITY x BUSINESS. Whether you’re a blockchain geek, a currencies philosopher or a sophisticated designer, if you believe your desk isn’t the only place where innovation happens – you must LOGIN! Content isn’t everything. Context is everything. Transit Lounge Radio brings you conversations from LOGIN 2018! Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel

How do you make data erotic and empathetic? Pau Garcia has the answers and he's not afraid to share his secrets in our revealing conversation! Future + Data + Design + Society + Ethics + Technology + Utopia ----more---- TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 Founding Partner at Domestic Data Streamers Pau’s focus areas are new media technology and data languages. After doing research and design projects in Spain, France, Italy, and Germany, including projects for the European Design Institute, Pau founded Domestic Data Streamers (DDS) five years ago. DDS is a team of developers from Barcelona that have taken on the challenge of transforming raw data into interactive systems and experiences. They play within the boundaries of arts, science and sociology to perfect and create new data languages for companies such as Twitter, Western Digital, UNICEF, Nike or the Mobile World Congress, Qatar Foundation, and California Academy of Sciences. TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 We are LOGIN 2018 – the first, largest, most uncompromising innovation bash in the Baltics. At LOGIN, the roadmap for INNOVATION is TECHNOLOGY x CREATIVITY x BUSINESS. Whether you’re a blockchain geek, a currencies philosopher or a sophisticated designer, if you believe your desk isn’t the only place where innovation happens – you must LOGIN! Content isn’t everything. Context is everything. Transit Lounge Radio brings you conversations from LOGIN 2018! Thank you for tuning in, we hope you've had as much fun listening as we did making the program. Transit Lounge Radio is independently produced, your support keeps the conversation flowing! Relax in the VIP Lounge Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Subscribe to our RSS feed

Cecile Poignant connects the dots in tech, art, design, food and fashion to find the signal in the noise. "The future is more active, engaged and sustainable. There is no Planet B!" Future + Design + Society + Action + Technology + Sustainability ----more---- TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 Trend Forecaster / Brand Strategist Cécile Poignant is a contemporary lifestyle specialist and an expert in trend forecasting. She is the co-founder and editor of Trend Tablet, and a consultant for many international brands working with interior, food, luxury, travel, and retail. Poignant is also the founder of TRENDxCHANGE, a new type of international Trend Gatherings. Cécile teaches Innovation & Trend Forecasting at Parsons Paris, ESCP Europe and American University of Paris. [Edited Transcript] My job is to find out what signals make sense, to be very curious about everything, what's happening in tech in art in design in fashion and then to connect all the dots. To better understand what's going to be important in terms of trends, and then to help start-ups or major international companies to imagine the future, imagine products and deal with innovation. For many different sectors, from cars to make-up to perfume to kitchen appliances, to food business. You need to look in various fields, of course I'm looking at a lot of things happening in design school, art school, new talents, also international fair like Salone Internazionale in Milan. So I'm going to professional fairs but also reading a lot, going to events, speaking to people, browsing the web, travelling a lot. But it never stops, even when I'm shopping for groceries for dinner, I look in people's baskets, what are they going to buy? So it's all the time, and everywhere, real life, web life, and everything. JR: How do you decide what is important and what will continue as a trend? CP: To find out what is important, it's a real job. My job is really to find the meaning in the noise. To find the signal in the noise. And there is a lot of noise, or lives really are very noisy. You need to connect the dots, if something is happening just once on the other side of the world, it's not a trend. You have to be seeing different signals in different places, maybe you read a book, and see an exhibition then you speak to someone – these dots are connecting. And you need to really trust your intuition. JR: What things coming up now would be interesting to watch? CP: A kind of counter-balance, trusting a large part of the web and technology, the industry. I think it's time to maybe go back to - we had in food 30 years ago a movement, slow food – maybe we need a slow web. A more ethic, slower web, so we have less pressure. I would say the key words about technology and innovation, it's mainly about sustainability, that is going to be a need, and it's going to be a large topic for all the years to come. There is no planet B. Trust is super important, and the real sense of community. For me it's those three words that are going to be important in the future. I think the slow web is needed because we need to be more active, and more engaged also with who we are, where we want to go, and what we want our future to be. For me the future is more active and sustainable. TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 We are LOGIN 2018 – the first, largest, most uncompromising innovation bash in the Baltics. At LOGIN, the roadmap for INNOVATION is TECHNOLOGY x CREATIVITY x BUSINESS. Whether you’re a blockchain geek, a currencies philosopher or a sophisticated designer, if you believe your desk isn’t the only place where innovation happens – you must LOGIN! Content isn’t everything. Context is everything. Transit Lounge Radio brings you conversations from LOGIN 2018! Thank you for tuning in, we hope you've had as much fun listening as we did making the program. Transit Lounge Radio is independently produced, your support keeps the conversation flowing! Relax in the VIP Lounge Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Subscribe to our RSS feed

Bryony Cole talks the Future of Sex with her clarion call for outspoken freedom around open + positive sexuality, education and expression. Future + FemTech + Sex + VR + AI + Society + Ethics + Technology ----more---- TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 Founder at Future of Sex Bryony is a founder Future of Sex, a research and media lab focused on the intersection of sexuality and technology. The company was awarded a place in the Google-Walkely Media Incubator and Cole continues to attract global attention for her work empowering women through media creation and organising global hackathons. Bryony, an international speaker, published writer and producer, has been featured in Wired, TechCrunch, The New York Times, Playboy, Mashable, Motherboard, ABC, Financial Review, Brides, Glamour and many other global media. [Edited Transcript] BC: My company futureofsex.org explores the intersection between sexuality and technology, or sextech. We do a lot of research into all the new products and services coming out, whether thats robotics, to VR sex education to health and education services on digital platforms. We also run global hackathons where we encourage everyone to come along and hack for a weekend, and develop their own product or service or business around some sort of challenge in sex. It's open to everyone, we do one every 3 months in a different city, the next one is in New York in August and then we'll be in Europe at the end of the year. We've had specific challenges around providing people with disabilities some form of sexual expression. These are people who are often seen as invisible, who don't have access to sex education. One of the teams in Singapore developed a sex education program for people who are either blind or deaf, and they're are able to play this game and learn all about intimacy whether through voice activation or be read online on a screen. How can we provide this for everyone, not just your everyday person, but aging population, people with disabilities, people in rural populations that don't usually have access to proper sex education and sexual health resources, and how technology can change that.. And then you've got all the fun stuff for enhancing that which is sex toys, adult entertainment, and even robotics which is what we're here at LOGIN today, discussing. JR: How do you know that the robot's consented, how do you know that the robot has consented? Is it informed, enthusiastic consent? BC: Now we're crossing this grey area, from it just being a technology like a sex toy or a sex doll, to this technology that can talk to you, recite you poetry, remember your pizza order. There's a very big question mark over whether sex robots will have rights, or if it's a system like a voice activated Alexa that you've bought and lives in your home and you have ownership over. We all dream it's going to be this Westworld, with sentient beings, but we're not quite there yet, it's still pretty clunky and it's still rote learning. But the projection onto the future is huge, you'll see lots of news about sex workers rights, if robots are considered sex workers what does that mean? And the brothels that are opening up in Spain and across Europe, how do you even begin to negotiate consent with technology? I don't have a specific answer for you as we're continuing to do the research. We're not quite there yet, but it's amazing how quickly technology is moving to that other side, but will it ever replace a sense of intuition? I don't think it can. JR: I don't think it can either, but I can understand how addictive it can be, how you can get so swept up in that world, and it can be easier to relate to technology, it can be easier to relate than to humans who are unpredictable, and messy, and might say and do things that you don't want. If you've just got the technology catering to your every whim and desire, so I think there's a shift maybe in how we also negotiate intimacy and relationships, and this could bring up interesting questions in that area. BC: You see that already in the proliferation of online dating apps, from these profiles where you filled out 40 questions, to this swipe culture, where you can swipe away 50 humans and I think we underestimate how quickly our behaviours can change. It isn't so far-fetched to think that in the not too distant future we will have entire relationships with people that are entirely online, and they will be intimate relationships. JR: I know, the film Her, where he falls in love with the voice, and it didn't seem very far from now. BC: in Japan the most advanced in terms of that AI being able to speak to you and treat you like a girlfriend or boyfriend. There's a company called Gatebox, with a cartoon girl (named Azuma Hikari, meaning 'light') in a cylinder and she controls all the things at home but also sends you emotional text message while you're work. And that technology is being marketed at home as a replacement 'girlfriend or wife.' So it kind of does exist already, these ideas that we're falling in love with voices and that concept like 'Her'. Kotaku: Japanese Company Will Pay Employees Extra Money If They're Married To 2D Characters JR: It seems to mostly be men falling in love with the woman robot or voice, does it operate in the other direction, are you having conversations with the people who are programming this about how it might operate in the other direction? BC: It's a slow process, I'll say it's very dominated at the moment by white men, as most technologies industries are, even if we look outside the sexuality aspect of tech, all those virtual assistants, they all have female voices, google home, amazon Alexa are all female voices, so there's definitely an issue there. Also if you talk to the companies, there's not as much a demand from the female side for these technologies, we're actually quite happy in what we have. The biggest growth in what we call vaginanomics, which is vagina plus economics or Femtech, is really around self-pleasure and understanding your body, sexual health resources and new vibrators that don't look offensive, and could sit on a coffee-table or be in a museum bookshop, really catering towards women's needs. It's one of the areas I was most excited about when I stepped into sextech is wow, we're using virtual reality in classes for education and history, it' s a great tool for learning. Imagine if we transferred that to sex education, where that is by far and above the most neglected curriculum globally. We never learn the real stuff when we talk about sex, we never learn about communication and empathy and intimacy, that's really the real stuff that makes the difference. And so Virtual Reality is such a great tool for that, because it can be private, but you're taken into a world that is interactive, engaging, can be safe. There's experiments in Universities in the state, also bedoink VR which started as a porn company, but has taken responsibility to educate consumers, because this is the default sex education now. So how do we start to change what they're seeing and have some sort of interesting engaging curriculum around sex, that is relevant to kids these days. Like sexting, revenge porn, cyber-flashing all these things that, they didn't exist when I grew up. So how do we reinvent that, and I think we're seeing initial virtual reality applications, mostly through porn companies. For example one that has developed Virtual Sexology, it's designed by a sex therapist, hosted by a porn star, it will take men through a course dealing with premature ejaculation, and for women awareness about their bodies, how to get in touch with your body, how to feel more comfortable. So really cool applications in technology beyond just entertainment. JR: Crossing that boundary towards intimacy, it doesn't matter what technology you're using, what app you have but at some point it still comes down to you taking that leap. BC: Yeah it does, you can't manufacture intimacy, it's not efficient like other technology. That's where we need to understand, that's what humans bring to the sex equation is intimacy that's cultivated through shared experiences, that takes time, builds up, has depth, and that's our special sauce! My vision for the future is all about having a more open, less judgemental, less shameful culture around sex. Just normalising that conversation is a great start, the more we start to talk about sex normally the more we start to be open about our preferences, I think we'll see a better, happier society. TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 We are LOGIN 2018 – the first, largest, most uncompromising innovation bash in the Baltics. At LOGIN, the roadmap for INNOVATION is TECHNOLOGY x CREATIVITY x BUSINESS. Whether you’re a blockchain geek, a currencies philosopher or a sophisticated designer, if you believe your desk isn’t the only place where innovation happens – you must LOGIN! Content isn’t everything. Context is everything. Transit Lounge Radio brings you conversations from LOGIN 2018! Thank you for tuning in, we hope you've had as much fun listening as we did making the program. Transit Lounge Radio is independently produced, your support keeps the conversation flowing! 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Rich Walker believes in tackling real world problems in open innovation partnerships, building dextrous robot hands with Shadow Robot Company. Robotics + AI + Society + Ethics + Technology + Open Innovation ----more---- TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 Managing Director at Shadow Robot Company RICH WALKER has worked in robotics for over 20 years and leads the team at the Shadow Robot Company which, as a leader in grasping and manipulation, is constantly developing new robots/applications in the field of cutting-edge robotics and AI. He sits on the Innovate UK “Robotics and Autonomous Systems” SIG Advisory Board, which lets him influence the direction the UK takes in robotics in a way that makes sense to SMEs and innovators. In addition, he is the Director of EuRobotics, and various EPSRC and University networks and committees around robotics. [Edited Transcript] RW: I'm from Shadow, and we're a robot technology company. We're best known for building hands for robots. When a human interacts with the world, we pick something up, we use our hands. If robots are going to do all sorts of things in the world, they're going to need hands that are quite like human hands. The high end dextrous robot hand that we built is pretty much the same dexterity as the human hand. As close as we can get it to the human hand. What do I actually need to do real world tasks? One of the nice things about working with the European research community is that it's very focused on societal challenges. The grand challenges of the sustainable development goals, the missions that the European Commission is looking at for the next generation of research. Trying to tackle real world problems, and saying broadly, 'let's see what could help for those'. So we've been involved in the past in projects as diverse as: How do you pick strawberries. What's the right sort of robot to put in the home of an elder person who's suffering cognitive impairments, dementia? And across those lines, there's always the same set of problems turn up. You need to be able to see things, reach out, grasp them and pick them up. The core technologies from our space are always the same across that. So we've been developing a suite of technology that if you want to take a robot and put it in the home to do cooking, our technology can fill one part of that jigsaw. There's a lot of it we don't - because we aren't going to be the experts in everything. We're big believers in open innovation and partnerships. We talk to our friends over there, they build the robot, our friends over there put the vision on it, our friends over they make it use correct nursing protocols to do the job right. JR: Is the singularity coming, and if so, when? RW: I think that what does happen constantly is that improvements in technology change the world, completely – and we don't notice, because it doesn't happen instantaneously. So I think that what we will see is a series of points where, everything has changed – but not in a 'suddenly there was artificial intelligence is ruling the universe' JR: So it's more like incremental shifts that over time become a larger shift in consciousness, awareness of where we are the in the world? RW: Yeah, I think that's very much it. If you can imagine taking someone from a thousand years ago and putting them here today in the conference we're in, they'd be like: 'why aren't you singing hymns? And what are these little things you keep rubbing?' But human interaction, the need to eat, the need to drink, the need to talk, the need for sunlight - those things haven't changed, and as long as we're this species, they won't. What will change are the tools and equipment we use to do that. I think that from a technology point of view we're going to see robots becoming more familiar, more common, we're going to see robots allow humans to stop doing repetitive tasks and go do things that are more valuable. As technologists, I think we need to make sure that we actually think about what could be done wrongly and badly with the technologies we develop. JR: So you're actually building into the research process a considering and concern for the ethical use and the social impact that technology will have in the future? RW: Yes, I think it's really important to have that kind of ethical perspective on what you're doing. TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 We are LOGIN 2018 – the first, largest, most uncompromising innovation bash in the Baltics. At LOGIN, the roadmap for INNOVATION is TECHNOLOGY x CREATIVITY x BUSINESS. Whether you’re a blockchain geek, a currencies philosopher or a sophisticated designer, if you believe your desk isn’t the only place where innovation happens – you must LOGIN! Content isn’t everything. Context is everything. Transit Lounge Radio brings you conversations from LOGIN 2018! Thank you for tuning in, we hope you've had as much fun listening as we did making the program. Transit Lounge Radio is independently produced, your support keeps the conversation flowing! Relax in the VIP Lounge Hang out in the Transit Lounge on facebook Reviews and stars on iTunes make us happy Listen on the TLR YouTube Channel Subscribe to TLR RSS feed