Code for Seoul - Yeyeon (Alice) Interview

Code for Seoul - Yeyeon (Alice) Interview at Berlin

We've launched Code for Seoul about 2 months ago.

We are a group of people who want to make the city better with technology.

Most of us are developers, we've got some designers, and editors.

We see ourselves as a working group to create cases that the citizens utilize the city as a whole.

For example, I'm a designer. Designers are people who comprehend problematic situations and turn them into something else with their own expressions.

In that sense, not just working on visualization of any kind, but also dedicating time and doing things for social causes is very meaningful.

I got to know Code for Seoul as an extension of this thought.

I believe Code for Seoul means important to me

because I can solve problems that Seoul faces through my works as a designer.

We just got it started, so I really wanted to see how other countries are doing.

I've met many Code-for activists and heard their stories and cases here,

and that helped me and Code for Seoul a lot.

So, this communication opportunity with Code for All is very useful for us.

I liked the actual cases of other countries out of everything from the last night's Code for All meeting.

As I've known before, there were many tech projects,

but it was very interesting to me that there were tools particularly made for better communication.

I think those tools will be useful to Code for Seoul members.

The most challenging thing I have now is that

Code for Seoul members are mostly developers, so I pay a lot of efforts and attention to understand and communication with them as a designer.

I still think it's very fun to participate.

Code for All includes many different countries, I try to understand the differences

and that becomes inspirations, I really like that.

I believe Code for All is most meaningful and valuable that way. Inspiration from diversity.

It is not so common to collect all those people with various background, right?

This happens because it's Code for All. We can communicate with those who have similar interests with us, all around the world.

As I said yesterday, hearing how other countries are doing and going to do is great.

When these things are communicated well, synergy happens.

So, I hope that we can keep in touch with each other online and offline,

and hopefully cooperate to make some great cases.

I think making a society better with technology, doesn't only take technological thinking.

Some might have an answer that we're looking for from a completely different perspective.

Their fresh approaches gives us a motivation as well.

So, staying connected with other Brigades is very important to us. I also hope cases from Code for Seoul would help others, too.

We just got started,

so so far, we spent most of our time to gather members, motivate them,

and picture what's next based on the toolkit from Code for All or other countries' know-hows.

There were very helpful to set up us as a team.