I'm an open government enthusiast, data wrangler and web coder.
Blog Posts 
A word of thanks
In November 2011, the Shuttleworth
Foundation awarded me a Flash Grant to help promote the
idea of open
government. This enables me to visit hack days
and open knowledge activitsts across Germany and work on
nascent open data projects that would not otherwise be
possible.
Projects
- OffeneDaten: portal for German open data sources.
- OpenSpending: Tracking international government finance.
- Adhocracy: A distributed policy drafting and decision-making platform.
- OffenerHaushalt: German federal budget visualization.
- PublicData: federated search engine for European data sets.
Experiment & Hacks
- YourTopia: voting on a custom index for human development criteria.
- Mitzeichner: reverse lookup for petition signatories at the German parliament.
- PublicBodies: an entity
identification service for publicly held bodies (government
departments, offices, etc.).
Code & Data Repositories
- FTS: cleansing scripts for the EC's financial
transparency system.
- EU Budget: scraper and cleansing scripts for the
EU annual budget.
- Bundeshaushalt: scraper and cleansing scripts
German federal budget (now removed from BMF website).
- Förderkatalog: scraper and cleansing scripts
German federal research funding since the sixties.