Portrait: Lena Holzerbauer, CC BY-SA 4.0
Who I am
Activist, civic technologist, communicator.
I have a hard time putting my work into a single box. I've been involved in internet politics, copyright reform, election campaigns, migration studies, civic tech, urban mobility, reading circles, spaces, and open knowledge. What connects those things is less a job title than a recurring question: how do people get the infrastructure, knowledge, and confidence they need to act together?
My day job is in public service, answering citizen questions and requests by phone and email. The work that shapes this site most strongly, though, is my activism, organising, and public-interest technology work.
What I care about
Digital rights
The right to a free, open, and secure internet. Fighting surveillance, censorship, and corporate enclosure.
Free knowledge
Open access to information, open educational resources, and the communities that sustain them.
Civic tech
Technology that serves public interest. Open-source tools for organizing, deliberation, and collective action.
Urban mobility
Safer streets, sustainable transport, and cities built for people, not cars.
Public infrastructure
Shared spaces, community resources, and the physical and digital commons.
Organising
Building power through collective action, mutual aid, and democratic participation.
Press & Speaking
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Bernhard Hayden is a Vienna-based activist, civic technologist, and communicator working on digital rights, free knowledge, civic tech, urban mobility, and public-interest infrastructure.
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Bernhard Hayden is a Vienna-based activist, civic technologist, and communicator working across digital rights, free knowledge, civic tech, urban mobility, and public-interest infrastructure. His work has moved through different institutions, campaigns, and communities—from European copyright reform with the Young Pirates and epicenter.works, to urban mobility campaigning with Wir machen Wien, to free knowledge advocacy with Wikimedia Österreich. He is currently building everycal, a federated calendar for public-interest organising.
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