# About me
![Pierre Mesure standing in front of a frozen lake](me_portrait.webp)
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Currently in charge of the **"datalabb"** at a government agency under the Swedish finance department.

I have been working in Sweden since 2016, where I have led numerous projects in the fields of **civic tech, transparency through open data, and citizen participation**.

For 6 years, I co-directed [Digidem Lab](https://digidemlab.org), a nonprofit citizen participation cooperative and a pioneering organisation in orchestrating Sweden's first citizens' assembly and many other initiatives (participatory budgets...).

In parallel, I have worked to improve access to public interest data in Sweden, notably in areas like public procurement or lobbying in legislation-making. Through the [Civic Tech Sweden](https://civictech.se) network, I organised many civic tech meetups in 2018-2021.

This led me to become a civil servant in October 2023 to continue the fight from within.