Helge Fahrnberger
Hi, I’m Helge Fahrnberger, owner and head of Toursprung, the company behind Maptoolkit, Printmaps and other digital maps products, and co-founder of Bikemap and a couple of other companies. On Twitter I am @helge.
I teach taught Online Journalism at the University of Vienna and at the FHWien and I founded the Austrian media watchblog Kobuk.at, winner of the Open Society Award 2011 and named Blog of the Year by Radio FM4 twice.
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I volunteer at the NGO Laafi. We are a circle of friends, building rural hospitals (like this one and this one) in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Less for charitable reasons, more as an extended form of travelling.
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Back the early 2000s I was head of product development of uboot.com, for a period of time the hottest shit around, with 6 million users.
Media
Please get in touch for media inquiries and feel free to use one of these printable pictures: Portrait (Credits: Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek) and torso shot (Credits: Lisa Lux).
Some articles I wrote: Der Standard / Kommentar der Anderen (2015), Die Presse / Gastkommentar (2019), Falter / Gastkommentar (2009), BIORAMA / Gastkommentar (2019).
Some media appearances: Der Standard/Kopf des Tages: 2009 & 2019, Falter/Hero der Woche, ZIB 24, Ö1 Nachtquartier, Die Presse, ORF Report 1/2
Me, elsewhere
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About this site
In one way or the other I’ve been blogging since late 1999 (see my 10 years posting) and on different domains and software platforms. This site was/is my notebook, public voice (not so frequently anymore for lack of time) and technological playground. Most of my posts are in German meanwhile.
Picture of me on this page: Lisa Lux.