“nio kvinnor” springs from the writings of a man. This man’s name is Mil Williams. He’s a thinker more than anything, who often writes his thoughts down, and sometimes only gets them because he writes them down.

Since 2002, when he worked on an open-source website as a volunteer for perhaps six months, he has had occasion to think a lot.

Especially when one man used the word “woman” to describe him, and as an insult. The man who did this was an important technologist on the site. Mil never forgot what he did. He never forgot how different two people could be.

Twenty-two years later, Mil is not the same person he was then. In some limited respects he is better. In others, he is far worse. But in both cases, he also sees that people like the technologist mentioned exist today, and in exactly the same way. They run technology and what it does with us. They do from citadels of real power and influence. And they are invisible to most of us. This means that not only are they corrupt, but that huge resources are being diverted from making the world a better place for all, to deepening the pockets of a few.

Mil doesn’t trust himself today, though: not even today. He knows he’s a man, and therefore fatally flawed in certain ways. But he also knows that he has created a body of work that deserves to become a legacy for all humans, not the preserve of technologists who casually use the word “woman” as an insult of the very most disrespectful.

The thing he has created is the reason for this website.

With this, Mil wants to do two things:

1. Gift all his ideas, now and into the future (i.e., even ideas he hasn’t yet had but will, we all know, one day think up) to an entity that no one can buy or sell ever, but nevertheless will be structured to become as money-making and profitable as the best. This entity will be run by nine women. It will have three layers: just like the Swedish retail giant IKEA. Mil’s template and inspiration, in fact.

   Why? To protect it, his ideas, and the good people working for the various projects and workstreams, from both marauding big tech as well as other influences which could otherwise prevent the missions of the entity being carried out.

2. Deliver, personally — in exchange for the handover of all his ideas into the new entity — and over three years from start to finish with one other person, a PhD in two parts:

   1. The more descriptive of the two proposals, designed to lay down and evidence exactly how powerful forces across the globe manipulate democracy by, in immensely persistent ways, covertly attacking the lives and careers of democratic citizens. It will be a praxis-based PhD, and will deliver an instruction manual for everyone who wants to know more about how to protect ordinary citizens from increasing levels of cognitive and hybrid warfare.

   2. The more productive of the two proposals, designed to lead to the development and implementation of new software architectures, legal frameworks and cultures aimed at empowering citizens in both totalitarian and authoritarian (i.e., potentially soon-to-be totalitarian) regimes, in order to stop such instincts in their tracks before they have a chance to embed themselves in their societies.