Umbrella City

Today I have been lecturing at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at the University College of BorÃ¥s. The course is called Theories of the Information Society and Information Policy and my lecture was on Information Politics. So basically I got to talk about my own subject for three hours. So cool. I just love guest lecturing…

When arriving at the station in BorÃ¥s I was informed that the kiosk at the station has a umbrella leasing system. Basically you can lease an umbrella for the day. You pay 60 kr and if you return the umbrella at the end of the day you get 40 kr back. What a totally impressive system. I have never seen this in Göteborg or in England (two places famous for their rain). It’s nice to see a city taking its climate seriously.

All I need now is to find a place that rents out bowler hats…
(image from here)

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