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+Title: Genesis
+Date: 2018-04-15
+Category:
+Tags:
+Slug: Genesis
+Lang: en
+
+
+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](ethical-innovation) 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* while paying 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 around 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 for any job 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 I make 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 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 the languages
+
+I'll try to make my best and write all the posts three times one on each
+language I know (English, Basque and Spanish) while blog itself will be only
+in English for technical reasons and also because I consider it's the language
+you all can understand enough to navigate without problems. The idea is to make
+this the most inclusive place I can.
+
+That said, my mother tongue language is Spanish but I'll try to write the posts
+in English first as an exercise to improve my English. Please, don't be so hard
+with me, I don't use English as much as I'd like to. The same applies to
+Basque, even if I feel quite comfortable speaking and writing in Basque, it's
+not a language I use a lot.
+
+
+
+[1]: https://elenq.tech/en/about.html#ethical-innovation