Code for Japan and Open Source Design collaborate to bring you a workshop where we'll focus on some critical aspects of what open source software is, how designers can get involved and begin to make our first design contributions to these open source software projects through a series of templates created by Eriol and translated by Code for Japan.

The projects will be on the subjects of civic technology, healthcare access, and internet freedom and human rights issues.

Eriol (they/them) is a lead designer with 10+ years experience in companies and NGO’s and has worked internationally on some of the toughest humanitarian problems including Crisis Response, Peace-building, Democracy and Human Rights. Dedicated to Open Source and Free software they are pushing for better design representation and involvement in OSS.

Eriol looks to solve complex problems using humanitarian-centred design and helps organisations stay focused on the problem experienced by the people they serve. They help to build, inform and collaborate using cross-functional empathy within teams and embed design research practice rationale in products and services.

Yuki is a Code for Japan Developer / Co Founder CTO of Senspace.
Graduated from Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University. From 2018, worked as a freelance developer, mainly in startups during their launch phase. Since 2022, he has been participating in projects at Code for Japan related to data federation infrastructure (city OS), open data, climate change measures, and web3, developing prototypes and fostering civic tech communities.
Since 2024, he has been the Co-Founder CTO at Senspace, that is developing social scrapbooking service.