Installation

Dutch Design Week 2023

Packet Run

— The internet as a marble run

We use the internet every day, but we have little grasp on how it actually works beneath the surface.

Packet Run is a marble run that demonstrates how information moves across the internet and who is involved in that process. Visitors can follow actual packets on their trips around the globe.

Created by BMD Studio, in collaboration with SIDN Labs.

Open source software

Dutch Design Week 2020, 2021

Aeon

— Grip on personal data

What if recovering personal data was as easy as losing it in the first place?

Aeon is an application that allows users to automatically retrieve their personal data from various websites across the internet.

Aeon makes exercising civil data rights easy, such as the GDPR's Right of Retrieval and Right to be forgotten.

Installation

OpenAI Grant

Common Ground

— AI-powered democratic deliberation

How should large language models behave? And how should those rules be democratically decided?

Common Ground is a discussion platform built with OpenAI in which AI Assistants help elicit shared values between groups of humans.

Created by Dembrane, BMD Studio, Sortition Foundation, Simpaticom, Aldo de Moor and Rolf Kleef.

Data platform

Raad voor Rechtsbijstand Grant

Toonbank

— Safe data exchange for law clinics

Rechtswinkels (law clinics) provide free legal assistance to those in need. This involves processing sensitive personal information.

Toonbank is a platform for safely storing legal case information. Through human-in-the-loop AI processing, information can be anonymously shared between clinics to improve their services.

Created by BMD Studio, Felix van Litsenburg, Amsterdam Law Hub and many Dutch law clinics.

Data platform

Brede welvaart

— Eliciting prosperity with AI

How can we transform societal systems to take into account more than just economic prosperity? This is what broad prosperity is about.

We built an experience for drafting policy that takes into account factors such as nature, environment, safety as well as relevant stakeholders..

Created by BMD Studio, Zet and Provincie Noord-Brabant.

Open source software

Fintunes

— Self-hosted music streaming

Many of our daily apps sport frictionless, beautiful designs. That makes moving to self-hosted open source solutions a lot harder.

Fintunes is an open source music streaming app for the Jellyfin ecosystem. It's simple and elegant designs attempts to make open source usage more broadly appealing.