David Pomerenke

I build things for impact.

United Nations

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UN Transparency Portal

2026 · open.unfck.org

Visualizations of who funds the UN System, which organizations are funded, where the money goes, and towards which goals it is spent.

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My UN App

2026 · Pre-Release

A meetings-and-documents companion for delegates. Live schedule, contacts, change notifications – all in one place.

German Federal Government

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EasyRedact

2025 · easyredact.io

AI-assisted redaction of personal data, for the government to more efficiently respond to freedom-of-information requests. Depending on sensitivity, the AI runs in the cloud, on a government server, or in the user's browser.

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LanguageBench

2025 · huggingface.co/spaces/fair-forward/languagebench

A benchmark covering >100 languages, scoring how well current AI models actually speak the world.

With Jonas Nothnagel

Nonprofit

For Fun

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Lingo.Talk

2026 · lingo.talk

A voice-first language tutor. Pick a language, pick a model, talk. The conversation is the lesson.

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Alphabetify

2019 · alphabetify.js.org

Paste text, watch letters gradually morph into a new script. A gentle on-ramp to Greek, Cyrillic, kana or Hangul.

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Aima Checkers

2019 · checkers.js.org

A Checkers game, built on top of a library of classical AI algorithms, written in literate programming.

Writing

How do protests shape discourse?

Master Thesis

Applying causal inference methods to determine the impact of climate-protest events on newspaper coverage of climate change.

2023

The German Protest Registrations Dataset

Dataset

The largest dataset on protest events that have been registered in Germany, compiled from freedom-of-information requests.

2023

The argument against neutrality about the size of population

Bachelor Thesis

A philosophical paper on population ethics: why neutrality about population size is more defensible than it looks.

2020

According to which principles should the state determine the distribution of goods?

Essay

An essay on distributive justice, comparing the principles by which states allocate goods.

2017

Making lunch future-ready

Stuttgart Youth Council Proposal

A partially successful proposal to the city council in Stuttgart to prioritize food that is healthy, protects our environment, and doesn't kill animals.

2016