Our research shows the limited potential of this exciting tech — Chayn’s journey with chatbots started in 2017 when we launched our Little Window bot. In April 2020, we unceremoniously retired it. This blog post is about why we did that, what we learned, and some insights from a report we did in 2021 for UNICEF’s Safer chatbots project looking at…

Special Edition: Transformative spaces and tackling inequalities — The three-day Inequality Retreat(13 —16 September) was organised by Robert Bosch Stiftung(RBS) in a lovely and sleepy historic village of Paretz, Germany. There were 65 activists and partners of RBS from across the world. …

Special Edition: Who cares, do you care, do we care? — I had the immense pleasure of joining the Friends of Europe as a Young European Leader alongside politicians, academics and (very few) journalists and activists. Each year there are two seminars for EYLs to discuss the future of Europe. This seminar in Lisbon (Sep 7–9) was hosted by the City…

Special Edition: [Feminist] Digital Futures — This blog is part of a series about the conferences and retreats I attended in August and September. The Digital Futures gathering was organised by Chayn’s friends at Superr Labs — a civil society organisation set up to explore and develop the potentials of new technologies for society and diversity…

Climbing the fundraising mountain and paying the cost of vulnerability — The last time I wrote a Weeknote was April. It’s the longest I’ve not written. It’s been a tough 4 months. Sorry for no weeknotes! I’m emerging back from a burnout that was long coming due to the grind of growing Chayn incredibly over the past two years during a…

And it’s been co-produced with many of you. — Read an excerpt of our full strategy as I’m sharing the note I wrote for the introduction. 2022 marks the ninth anniversary of Chayn. We have remained an ambitious organisation with humble resources. Chayn has gone from being completely volunteer-run for most of its life to now having a hybrid…

Rest, friendship and coming through on deadlines — This will be a shorter reflection. I spent most of the week sleeping because I was so tired from the last few weeks so I wasn’t very productive, which I’m completely okay with. What I did I was so upbeat this week. The feeling of finishing a tough part of the troubled project…

Last sprints, gratitude and resilience — As soon as my eyes laid on this tree, I knew it had to be the image for this blog but then so much more happened. This week is like pushing the car from the back as its wheels are stuck in the mud, and you just know once you…

Good farewells and sunny days — This blog is a bit late and not about last week but the one before it. What I did Most of my week was: Writing up the organisational strategy. It’s a month late because of the pressures of the podcast project and unexpected hiring and offboarding of staff. Checking scripts for the podcast…