For episode #6 of The Community Podcast I spoke to Annamaria Olsson, the founder of Give Something Back to Berlin.

What started with a Facebook post in 2012 has helped thousands of newly arrived Berliners integrate in society, make friends and learn the language.

In our interview, Annamaria shares the story on how it all got started and the learnings she made from building this unique community over the past 5 years.

Listen in: The Community Podcast #6: Building Bridges Between Refugees and other Migrants

More food for thought
Could crowdsourcing become the future of government?

In this article from November 2016, Yale professor Beth Simone Noveck argues that governments haven't yet tapped into the wisdom of its citizens. Crowdsourcing knowledge might be the future of how countries are being run.

Learn more about community tools at CMX Berlin this week

Kristoffer Tjalve and myself will speak this Wednesday at CMX Berlin. We'll share about some of the tools and strategies we used to build Techfestival together with 400 co-creators. RSVP here
 

Thanks for reading.

Yours truly,
Severin

www.co-matter.com