About
Kenneth B. Bjerke — systems architect and technology leader
About Diggs
I have worked with systems for 25 years, from Linux in the 1990s to B2B migrations and product development. Diggs is a research and development project on digital sovereignty: how European organisations can measure how dependent they are, and how that dependency can be reduced.
1998–
Background
The experience the project builds on.
1998
Linux
I started with Linux on Red Hat 5.2 and have worked with open source and systems operations ever since.
→ The foundation for understanding infrastructure from the root level.
2003–2010
Musician and self-employed
Crawling Duck Johnsen, from the basement to a Scandinavian tour. I handled booking, logistics, marketing, grant applications and production.
→ This is where I learned that distribution matters as much as the product.
2009–2012
Hi-Fi Klubben
From the warehouse to a central role in launching “Tilbudstorget”, which connected store inventories with the online shop. Organised customer club events, including with Øyafestivalen.
→ Experience integrating physical and digital systems.
2012–2023
Fanbooster / 24SevenSocial
Head of Customer Success. Opened the Oslo office and was the link between customers, management and developers in a company that became an official Facebook Partner.
→ Translating between technology and commercial needs, where many open-source projects fall short.
Today
Akari AS
Product manager at Akari. Certified Google Partner. I work daily with Google Workspace for B2B customers and see why the large platforms are chosen.
→ An alternative has to understand why the established option wins.
Going forward
The R&D project
Diggs will investigate how European organisations can measure and reduce digital dependency, and what it takes for independent alternatives to actually be adopted. I am looking for partners and funding to do this as a research project.
Disclosures
Funding and disclosures
Diggs is self-funded and run in my spare time. In autumn 2026 I began conversations with researchers and practitioners in academia and the health sector about turning the work into a research project. Nothing has been formalised. The next step is to establish whether there is a basis for a joint application for pre-project funding.
I am a product lead at Akari, which sells Google Workspace. The inbox for diggs.no is in Google Workspace.
The same disclosures are at the end of every article where they apply.
Contact
Contact
I am happy to talk about research collaboration and partnerships. Tell me briefly what you have in mind, and we can find out whether there is a basis for doing something together.
- post@diggs.no
- +47 966 21 811
- Org. no.: 923 849 394