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authorEkaitz Zárraga <ekaitz.zarraga@protonmail.com>2019-03-29 13:59:38 +0100
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-Title: Genesis
-Date: 2018-04-15
-Category:
-Tags:
-Slug: Genesis
-Lang: en
-Summary:
- About this blog, ElenQ Technology, and myself
-
-
-As a first post in this *official-but-not-very-official* blog I just want to
-introduce myself and *ElenQ Technology*.
-
-First of all, my name is Ekaitz Zárraga and I was born in 1991. I describe my
-job as R&D Engineer but actually I studied Telecommunications Engineering and I
-*only* make my research and development in that area. I'm mostly focused in
-programming or computer-related activities but I can also do some electronics
-and other kind of things. That's my formal introduction. In the informal part
-I'd say I've always been a really curious person and that made me try other
-disciplines like arts in its different forms. This last point drives most of
-what I'll write about later in this text. That's all from my part, I'll write
-down an informal resume in the future.
-
-
-*ElenQ Technology* is a name, it's a name to call the way I am and the
-interests I have. That said, it's also the independent R&D project I'm running.
-It's a different kind of company which aims to raise awareness about ethical
-technology or [Ethical Innovation][1] by example, demonstrating ethical
-companies can be profitable. It's not simply the way I make my living where I
-make engineering, it's also a performance. Like an art piece.
-
-> *ElenQ Technology* is an art piece which tells you that a different model is
-> possible. It tells you that you have a choice and you don't need to work in a
-> corporation and be governed by its rules.
-
-*ElenQ Technology* is the result of many things I felt working for other
-companies and it's also the result of a deep analysis of the status of the
-technology in my context, which I think it can be generalized globally with a
-decent accuracy.
-
-First, in my near context most of the IT companies have a similar business
-model based on *body shopping* and they pay really low salaries. Other sectors
-are not in a much better position, but the IT is outrageous.
-
-The jobs are not 9-to-5 jobs here. Working 10 hours per day is becoming the
-norm. The famous *Economical Crisis™* mixed with a deep corruption made people
-pray for jobs and the companies are being aware of that.
-
-That said, you can easily imagine how the tech world works here. IT
-corporations get a ridiculous amount of money while they don't respect their
-workers nor their clients. They make proprietary solutions because they don't
-want to lose the projects and let the client be independent. They don't want
-you to be free in any case because they need to maintain their rotten business
-model.
-
-That is the general status of the IT world in my surroundings but I'm sure, as
-I said, it can be generalized, maybe not totally but there are many points than
-can be, mostly because the corporations I mention are present in other
-countries.
-
-Personally, I had the luck to work in what I thought it was a better place.
-The working conditions were not as bad as I described, or at least I
-thought that. It was a R&D Engineer position in a not very big corporation. I
-worked in a small department with less than ten co-workers. We made new stuff
-for the company. It was fun.
-
-After some time there I realized how it worked. It wasn't really different to
-other jobs. There were a lot of things I don't want to share here but I started
-to feel bad there and my personal situation didn't help at all. I've always
-been a really curious person, I love learning new things and the job simply
-wasn't giving me that as it did at the beginning. I started to need to fill my
-needs spending more time after the job doing tech related stuff in the few free
-time I had. The mix between the boring job and the organizational problems we
-had made it really depressing.
-
-While I was immerse in that depressing environment, our company wanted more
-money and they started looking for new businesses with the resources they had.
-Our team, as R&D team, was responsible of the development of the first
-*proof-of-concept* of the new technology. We were asked to analyze the data
-that the company had. Literally, we were asked to track people. The company
-didn't care if they were our users or not, we were asked to track *everyone*.
-
-That was the straw that broke the camel's back. I left the job because my
-ethics are not compatible with people tracking. I don't like it and I don't
-want to be part of it.
-
-I always wanted to change the way the technology is created and I always
-thought it was a great idea to make it by myself and encourage others to do so,
-but I never had the courage to do it. What happened gave me the courage I
-needed.
-
-But, why not simply move to another job?
-
-I think it was the moment to try it. I had been defining an idea of what
-Ethical Technology is for a while and I always wanted to apply that idea in my
-field: R&D. Also, taking in account that most of the companies where I could
-work have the same structural problems I decided to change it from the root. I
-decided to try a different model. Did I really have other options?
-
-Is living in a depressing environment making the world a worse place to live
-in an option? Really?
-
-Think about it.
-
-
-Now, *ElenQ Technology* breaks the business model of the companies of my
-environment. It makes ethical technology and it makes it in an ethical way.
-That's good for me because it lets me work on the fields I like and I can make
-the world a better place to live in, which selfishly will improve the future I
-leave for my children if I ever have them. But it's also good for the clients
-*ElenQ Technology* has, because all the projects are handled in a way *they*
-own them, following the principles of the Free Software and Hardware and
-[Ethical Design manifesto](https://2017.ind.ie/ethical-design/) with some
-extra ideas I added to be more specific to the innovation field (you can read
-more [here][1]).
-
-I want to change the world. Don't you?
-
-The thing is I can't do it alone so *ElenQ Technology* wants to push other
-people to take the same decision I took (or I was forced to take) and that's
-its main goal.
-
-Let's change the world together.
-
-### About this website
-
-You already noticed this is not the official *ElenQ Technology* website. This
-is *my* *official-but-not-very-official* blog as part (or head, but I don't
-like that word) of *ElenQ Technology*.
-
-Here I'll write about *ElenQ Technology*'s philosophy, goals, achievements and
-that kind of *official* things but mostly I'll write **about the things we
-make**. That's what interests me the most.
-
-This is going to be a really technical place where I'll try to explain advanced
-concepts in a simple way to let you learn stuff with me. I want to share what I
-do with you all.
-
-### About languages
-
-I'll write all this post in English but some of the entries are going to be
-translated. As the blog supports that, it's better for me to leave it like a
-supported tool and keep the translation option always enabled so I can add
-community translated posts or posts translated by myself.
-
-[1]: https://elenq.tech/en/about.html#ethical-innovation