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Argentina doubles in size?

This morning I was listening to a podcast on the Economist Radio were they discussed Argentina recently doubling in size and “setting a precedent with big diplomatic and resource-extraction implications”. Argentina is not even in…

War in Nagorno-Karabakh – or Artsakh

This week Jonah Fisher, Ukraine correspondent at BBC News, reported from Nagorno-Karabakh for the BBC radio programme “From Our Own Correspondent”. While fighting has sadly continued in the South Caucasus region, he highlighted how web…

What does saorico.com mean?

The name of the project saorico.com was liberally inspired by the Portuguese name São Rico, a fictional South American country in The Adventures of Tintin. The fictional country São Rico is a good example of…

The (accidental) developer at re:publica 18

Very happy I had the chance today to talk at re:publica on a topic I care about, how can software developers manage location-based services when dealing with disputed territories or partially recognized states: “the (accidental)…

Talk at re:publica 2018

I am really excited (and a bit nervous already!) to attend next May re:publica, Europe’s most inspiring conference on internet and society, and talk about geolocation and disputed territories. You can read the abstract here….