Rich Bodo
Rich has been working since 2021 to make Social Network Health approaches to preventative mental health care easier to understand and implement. Social Network Health is the study of how relationships in communities effect everything from general mental health to productivity, to suicidal ideation.
Since the last dweb camp, Rich shifted focus from educational applications of social network health to studying remote workers, and building local-first applications.
He is also a co-founder of spacebase.co, whose goal is to democratize access to space, and the Global Space Enablers Network, and works with a number of other NZ startups as a technical problem solver.
He lives in New Zealand on Waiheke Island with his wife Cindy, and his 3.5 year old daughter Skylark, who are also avid attendees of Dweb camp. :)
Sessions
Alte Holle has a lot of broken bikes and parts. We will get some of them running, and make fun things out of some of them - maybe some art or another vehicle - we might even fix things in this class! :)
The root of our social graph is personal contact data and private relationship data - for most, that data is spread across a half-dozen SaaS vendors who pollute it and make it difficult to use. Bringing that root local is a massive personal and community health unlock.
This effort is underserved, high leverage, and just the beginning of what is only recently possible to explore and implement.
I am engaged in ongoing context development around community health for my communities. To make that useful, I built a toolkit. We'll run it against a popular open source application that handles contact data - to evaluate it's safety and efficacy as an application that deals with our personal contact and relationship data.
Then we will discuss plan to help our communities take control of their contact and relationship data, and gain meaningful insights from that data to improve community health.
Then we will workshop our own applications - or any application that handles personal relationship data that we would like to cover - evaluating them for safety and efficacy in supporting personal network health. If we have time or the group wants more discussion - we can discuss future directions for this type of validation methodology to any depth - even if it is preferred to workshopping our own tools.