Posts on Oliver Moldenhauer

Digitalcourage supporters are the best.

Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Doing some more freelancing: Last week, I organised a supporter survey for Digitalcourage.de. Their crowd is impressive: More than 1⁄4 of their supporting members replied to the survey. (Of all the supporting members, not just of those who are on their newsletter.) Less surprising: They really don’t like google, facebook amazon et al. For me this was a good opportunity to learn some new statistic coding skills. (RMarkdown is just the best!

Working with Investigate Europe

Thu, 06 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Nice: I just agreed with Investigate Europe that I’ll do several weeks worth of consulting with them over the rest of the year to build up their small donor fundraising. How to fund high-quality journalism is one of the key strategic questions of our societies, so I am happy to get some first-hand experience. – And doing this with this amazing project and impressive and lovely team is just great.

30C3: Glenn Greenwald’s keynote speech

Sun, 29 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Glenn Greenwald’s keynote at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg was quite impressive. I found listening to it quite worthwhile, and highly reccomend it. Some of Greenwald’s points I found particularly interesting: How can we fight back against surveillance? Greenwald discusses four main avenues how the surveillance state can be pushed back (my comments in italics). Public debate leading to legislative changes through the US Congress. Although, this is probably the option most mentioned, Greenwald doesn’t see a lot of chances that this will really change something.

The next months I’ll be fighting @ campact.de for renewable energy in Germany

Fri, 06 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

One of the weakest points of the new German government is to slow down the transition to renewable energy and the growing support for the interests of the coal industry. However, there is still hope that the coalition agreement is vague enough that its consequences could be significantly ameliorated. Campact.de is going to organize political pressure directed at the German government. They asked me to start immediately and work as Energy campaigner in the next months.

Gates Foundation

Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday a quote of mine on the Gates foundation in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, today an interview with Deutsche Welle on the same topic.