For the Kick-off conference program see: http://isoc.nl/self/kickoff
SELF CONFERENCE
International SELF Project Kick-off on
July 10th
in The Hague
List of Panel members
Bert Melief
Dr. Bert Melief (1951) is partner with M&I Partners in
Amersfoort. He is a member of Internet Society since 1994. He holds a doctorate in biology but has worked in ICT since 1985. He has been Head user
support of the computer centre of the University of Maastricht,
secretary of the Scientific Technical Council of SURF and works since
2001 as ICT consultant with M&I Partners in
Amersfoort, since July 2004 as partner.
He has been member of the board of NGI (1996-2000), founder and director of ECDL Nederland (1997-2006), and is board member
of Exin (1999-current). Since 2006 Bert is member of the ISOC.nl Board and performs the role of treasurer. Besides that he is ISOC's delegated
officer for the SELF project.
Jan Willem Broekema
Drs Jan Willem Broekema is managing the governmental open source awareness programme OSOSS
(at ICTU) and is also the national co-ordinator open standards for the
government (at GBO.Overheid). Previously he was commissioner for the
national Data Protection Authority CBP and before that he fulfilled
roles as management consultant, marketing manager and sales
representative in several companies. The social effect of ICT is his
primary focus of interest.
Rob Rapmund
Rob Rapmund (1947)is a senior partner of Twynstra
Gudde Consultants and Managers, a leading Dutch consultancy firm. He specializes in
strategy and administration in education, IT and change management.
As a consultant Rob focuses on not-for-profit organisations, mostly
education and government. He acted as a project manager of several
national technology and IT innovation programs in Dutch education.
One of these programs lead to the Kennisnet
Foundation, the internet organization for primary, secondary and professional education in the
Netherlands, of which he was one of the co-directors. Kennisnet is an
active partner in the Dutch free software community. Rob is a member of
the Advisory Board of ISOC-nl.
Paul Klint (www.cwi.nl/~paulk)
is head of the software engineering department at Centrum voor Wiskunde
en Informatica (CWI, the Dutch national research center for computer
science and mathematics) and professor in computer science at the
University of Amsterdam where he directs the master program on Software
Engineering (www.software-engineering-amsterdam.nl).
He is also visiting professor at University of London (Royal Holloway),
president of the European Association for Programming Languages and
Systems (EAPLS), chair of the Dutch national advisory boards on
Computer Science and co-founder of the Software Improvement Group
(SIG), a CWI spinoff company. Recently, he was one of the PC chairs of
the Holland Open Software Conference 2006 (www.hosc.nl).
His research interests include generic programming language technology,
domain-specific languages, analysis and renovation of software, open
source development, IPR on software and technology transfer. Download
Paul's favourite software from www.meta-environment.org
Rishab Ghosh
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh is Founding International and Managing Editor of
First Monday, the most widely read peer-reviewed on-line journal of the
Internet. He is Programme Leader at MERIT/Intech at the University of
Maastricht and United Nations University, Maastricht, Netherlands. He
coordinated the European Union -funded FLOSS project, the most
comprehensive study of free/libre/open source users and developers,
coordinates the follow-on FLOSSPOLS project on policy support, and the
new FLOSSWorld
project conducting
studies in 8 developing countries. He is actively involved in
initiatives related to government policy on open source, and conducts
research funded by the EU, the Dutch government and the US National
Science Foundation.
Joep van Nieuwstadt
CEO of EXIN Holding B.V., since September 1997. Managing the
international infrastructure, responsible for new offices and regional
management representatives. EXIN: Deputy Managing Director: 1994-1997,
managing the development of
the exams, managing a team of test experts and product managers. Before
he was self employed as consultant outplacement business. He worked for
NOVI being Education Manager for IT Courses, and forEIT as general
manager for Education Provider for IT, as part of the University of
Tilburg.
Joep has published articles about education in IT, return on investment
of (IT-)education. Besides he is member of International Certification Management
Board ITIL, of the advisory board for professionalism of IT-education
of ECABO, a Dutch knowledge Center for IT and of the exam board of the
Delft Top Tech, Master Technology and Business of the University of
Delft
Jonas Öberg
Jonas Öberg has a background from
software engineering, organisations and economics. He has taught
courses in as diverse areas as philosophy and assembler programming.
Jonas has also developed and taught two courses on Free Software at
Göteborg University; Free Software: theory & practice,
and
Free Software: political science, courses that he intends to follow up
with and develop further into a masters degree programme on Free
Software. His research interests are currently the publics right to
official documents and how it relates to Free Software and computers in
general, where more and more official documents are stored and accessed
through a computer, which sometimes make automatic decisions and
rulings on behalf of the governments.
Kees Stuurman (1956) is professor
of information technology
regulation at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and
Society
(TILT) since 2001. Next to his academic work he is partner of Van
Doorne attorneys and civil law notaries in Amsterdam, and
practice
group leader of Van Doorne's IP/IT group.
He holds masters degrees in physics and in law from the Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam. From 1985 until 2000 he was (senior) research
associate at the Computer/Law Institute of the Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam. In 1995 he obtained his doctorate in law based on a study of
the legal significance of technical standards in the field of
information technology and telecommunications.
His research activities cover a broad range of topics, varying
from
e-commerce law (contracting issues, electronic signature, consumer
protection), computer contracts, legal aspects of certification and
standardisation, to liability issues relating to information technology
and telecommunications. He participated in a large number of national
and international (European) research projects and acted as a reviewer
for the European Commission and for the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO).
Currently, the main focus of his academic work lies in the
field of
regulatory aspects of information technology and other high
technologies (e.g. biotechnology and nanotechnology) with a specific
focus on self regulation (codes of conducts, standards, certification
etc.).
His law practice focuses on legal aspects of IT and telecoms
transactions, including contracting issues, public procurement,
outsourcing and electronic commerce. He is amongst other things a
member of the board of the Netherlands Association for Information
Technology and Law, member of the legal expert committee of ECP.NL
(ElectronicCommerce Platform Nederland), and member of the editorial
board of The Computer Law and Security Report.
Jo Lahaye is the first CEO of The MMBase Foundation. He has a
background in journalism, worked as an ICT project-manager and
implemented many different CMS, especially in higher education. He also
advises many Dutch organizations on the use of open source software and
is the author of many articles on open source and open standards issues
as well as software patents. Jo is the current president of Holland Open,
a platform for the Dutch community of open source. Within that role Jo
takes part in the organisation of the Holland Open Software Conference
wich is held annually in Amsterdam.
Ton Roosendaal is Blender's
creator,
and the co-founder of NeoGeo, the largest 3D animation house in the
Netherlands in the nineties. Ton founded Not a Number (NaN) in 1998 to
market and develop Blender. In March 2002, he started the non-profit
Blender Foundation with the goal of resurrecting Blender as an open
source software project. A deal was reached with the company's
investors to initiate a fund-raising campaign to buy back the rights to
Blender, at a cost of €100,000. Thanks to an enthusiastic
group of
volunteers including several ex-NaN employees, along with donations
from thousands of loyal Blender supporters, the €100,000
target
was reached in seven short weeks. Blender was then freely released to
the world under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Since
2002, Ton is working full time employed by the Blender Foundation to
coordinate Blender projects, ranging from software development to
manual publishing.
Dessi Pefeva
Ms. Dessi Pefeva is coordinator within the Internet Society Bulgaria. She is working on
initiatives for Poverty reduction through ICT and support to
e-Government initiatives based on free/open source software (FOSS) for
the South-eastern Europe. Ms. Pefeva is currently engaged in ICT trainings at the orphanages in
the region of the Municipality of Vratza, Bulgaria. Trainings are
focused on working with office applications, based on free/open source
software.
Dessi is actively participating in the work of the EU FP6 projects TOSSAD and FLOSSWORLD.
She is also involved in the start of a new EU FP6 project – SELF, a Platform for
Science, Education and Learning in Freedom.
Ms. Pefeva was part of the organization team of the 2005 edition of the
Bulgarian Big Brother Awards (www.bigbrotherawards.org)
for government and private sector organizations which do not respect
privacy in their countries.
Since October 2004, Dessi Pefeva is the Project Lead of Creative
Commons Bulgaria initiative (an OSI-funded initiative, performed by
ISOC-Bulgaria). She is the co-founder of the Bulgarian portal for
Creative Commons content – OpenCulture.net.,
and the founder of the Official Creative Commons Bulgaria Blog (http://cc.isoc.bg).
She is a contributor to the EPIC Annual Privacy and Human Rights Report 2005. She is also a representative from
Internet Society Bulgaria to the Bulgarian Consultative Council for illegal and abusive content in Internet.
She is a member and contributor to the European Digital Rights Initiative
(EDRI). Prior to joining the Internet Society of Bulgaria, she was working on
the development of the Bulgarian E-Government Strategy and Action Plan
at the Coordination Center for Information, Communication and
Government Technologies (a joint UNDP – Council of Ministers
program).
Dr. Peter B. Sloep is an
associate professor at the Open Unversity of the Netherlands
Educational Technology Expertise Centre and Fontys University of
Applied Sciences, School of Education. He studied theoretical biology
at the Free University of Amsterdam (MSc 1978) and received his PhD
from the University of Groningen (1983). Since then he has worked at
the Open University, first as a course developer, later to turn his
attention to educational technology. His research interests include the
technical affordances – including specifications for
interoperablity - and social affordances - including social software -
that are conducive to self-directed learning in networked learning
environments. Peter Sloep chairs the Dutch Standards Institute's (NEN)
Technical Committee on Learning Technologies.
Drs. F.J. (Frank) Kresin is programme manager at Waag Society for Old
and New Media (www.waag.org).
He is involved in the WS programmes Locative
Media, Public Domain, Shared Narratives, Connected, Technology as
Expression, Research and Dissimination and KeyWorx. Until May 2006 he
worked as a programma manager for the Dutch Digital University
Consortium (www.du.nl).
Frank was involved in several projects in the field of e-learning
standards and specifications, knowlegde management and application
architectures. He has a Masters in Artificial Intelligence and worked
as a film director and head designer of content management systems at
the University of Amsterdam.
He is involved in several non-governmental activities including the
development of a nation-wide cross-institutional study guide (www.keuzevakkengids.nl)
and the Memory of Almere (www.geheugenvanalmere.nl).
His interests are in technology for learning, knowledge management,
information logistics, empowerment of (end)users and the principles of
innovation and change.
Michael W. van Wetering is CTO (Chief Technology Officer) at
“Kennisnet ICT in School”.
The Kennisnet ICT in School
foundation is the Internet organization for primary, secondary and
professional education in the Netherlands. Kennisnet creates virtual
space for learning and educational processes.
Michael has a degree in Software Engineering at the Free University of
Amsterdam.
He started at Kennisnet in 2002 as CTO, before that he was a senior
ICT-consultant at Verdonck, Klooster & Associates, an
independent
consultancy agency active in strategic ICT projects, mostly in the
public sector. Before that Michael worked at the IT department of the
Rotterdam School of Management as a developer, architect and later
IT-manager.
In the past 15 years Michael acquired broad and in-depth knowledge in
the areas of IP network infrastructures, development of networked
(web)applications, security and ICT management. Michael has a clear and
pragmatic vision on developments in information technology including
the importance of open standards and the use of open technology.
Based on professional argumentation and a pragmatic approach Michael
has been active in promoting the Open Model of Software Development for
the past 10 years both in Education and other sectors. At Kennisnet.nl
the Open Model of (Software) Development is the model of choice. It is
applied whenever it is superior or as good as closed
products/development, practice what you preach!
Leo Besemer is product manager for ECDL Nederland at EXIN,
the Examination Institute for Information Science in Utrecht, the
Netherlands.
The European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) is the world's leading
end-user computer skills certification programme. Outside of Europe,
the ECDL is known as the International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL).
ECDL is internationally recognised as the global benchmark for end-user
computer skills and is the leading certification to be adopted by
governments, international organisations and corporations alike.
As project manager for the introduction of ECDL in the Netherlands, Leo
Besemer became involved with the ECDL organisation in 1998. From then
on he has been working as account manager and product manager for
‘Stichting ECDL Nederland’ until its merger with
EXIN in
2005.
As product manager Leo Besemer is responsible for the availability and
the quality of the Dutch language exams and diagnostic tests in the
ECDL portfolio, according to the (high) standards of ECDL Foundation.
In 2004 and 2005 Leo Besemer has been a member of the ATES working
group of ECDL Foundation, discussing internal standards for a
utomated test engine systems and their
content, in order to guarantee validity and reliability of the ECDL
tests on a world wide scale.
Before 1999 Leo Besemer worked almost 20 years for ACCU, the Academic
Computer Centre of Utrecht University. His roles included systems
programmer, application engineer, account manager and consultant.
Marja Verstelle
Drs. Marja Verstelle is Head of Educational Technology Expertise Group, Department of Higher
Education within ICLON, Graduate School Of Teacher Education, Leiden
University.
As senior educational
consultant she
specializes in staff development and change management regarding the
use of technology in innovation of education. On her weblog
she writes about themes such as social software and open courseware.
Some of her current projects are Networked
Learning together with the University
of Delft and IBM.Lorenet, EUREA,
and theEmerge-consortium
projects. She is Chief editor of the national portal on e-learning in higher education www.e-learning.surf.nl
Tom Dousma
Tom Dousma [1948] has held several teaching positions at the University
of Nijmegen in psychology, teacher education and in the use and
application of audio-visual media in education.He published
on
educational testing.
Tom Dousma was Managing Director of the University Center for
educational media at the University of Nijmegen from 1985 –
1998.
Had a sabbatical year during which he made a study on the use of ICT in
education and performed several interim and consultancy assignments. As
of August 1999 he is the Platform Manager of ICT and Education of the
SURF Foundation in the Netherlands.
Managing the Platform ICT and Education activities, especially the SURF
education innovation Fund. This Fund supports innovative, theme
oriented projects (see the leaflet ‘What do the innovation
projects have to offer you). In addition to this the platform has
initiatives on Grassroots projects, and made a start with the
e-learning research program. The platform is responsible for several
community activities eg. webstroom, on streaming media, SIX on
standardisation, NL-Portfolio a community on digital
portfolio’s.
There are specialist websites, meetings and publications all with a
summary in English available.
Frank Benneker
Frank Benneker works at the University of Amsterdam, center of
information technology, education & research services
development
group'. For the University of Amsterdam he is one of the architects of
the e-learning infrastructure. He is a member the Dutch standards
organization on e-learning standards. For Surf Foundation he is a
member of the Surf SiX special interest group. This SIG coordinates
activities on the promotion and use of e-learning specifications and
standards in Dutch Higher Education.
His of field expertise is the introduction and use of e-learning
standards and is directly involved in several projects in the
Netherlands in which e-learning specifications are being developed and
implemented.
He published (in Dutch) several papers and project results on (e.g.)the use and implementation of metadata, on activities related to introduction of IMS specifications in the
Netherlands, on LCMS and interoperability issues and the implementation of VLE's (Blackboard & Sakai) and Digital Portfolio systems.
Drs Rob Peters (42) is eGovernment Consultant at Zenc and researcher on
Open law at the Leibniz Institute for law, University of
Amsterdam,He was the coordinator of the first Dutch
conference
on eCommerce in 1993 at Erasmus University. He currently chairs the
program committee of the Holland Open
Software Conference.
He has been in charge of the buildingprocess of major
portals
like www.PortofRotterdam.com and www.overheid.nl . He was project
manager of 4 European Research projects in 12 years, winning the
European Telework Award in 1997. Rob speaks at conferences in The
Netherlands, Brussels, China and Thailand on topics of Innovation, Open
Source, Open Content and Geographic navigation and legal
standardisation. He has written over 15 articles in scientific media ,
including IBM systems journal. His consultancy work is mostly for the
Dutch Ministry of internal affairs and for Provinces.
Gabriel Hopmans
Gabriel Hopmans is CEO of Morpheus Software, a Knowledge Technology
company which he cofounded in 1999. He has worked in European IST
projects like I-MASS, Agentcities and is now responsible in CEN/ISSS'
ADNOM for the development of the European network. He is a known expert
on Topic Maps and recently he has led a number of projects within the
Dutch Tax Office, the Netherlands police force and Geoactive eLearning.
Gabriel participated in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 WG3, and is now editor of the
new work item CTM, a compact syntax for Topic Maps. His main interest
is to build a larger body on the use of Published Subjects and the use
of a federated registry. Hopmans received his Master of Science degree
at University Maastricht. His masters' work focused on how (artificial)
software agents can find an agreement in a voting dialogue structure.
This work became available at FIPA, a foundation that defined standards
for agents.
Jeen Broekstra
Dr. Jeen Broekstra is a
lecturer and researcher in Information Systems at the Technische
Universiteit Eindhoven, specializing in Semantic Web software and
languages. Additionally he is a senior software developer at Aduna
[http://www.aduna-software.com].
He achieved his PhD in Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2005
with his thesis on Storage, Querying and Inferencing for Semantic Web
Languages. At Aduna, he is one of the lead designers of Sesame
[http://www.openrdf.org/],
an open source framework for scalable
persistent storage and querying of RDF and OWL. He has been involved in
the development of various (W3C) specifications for Semantic Web
languages, including the languages RDF, OIL and its successor OWL, and
more recently the SPARQL RDF query language and protocol.
Michiel Leenaars is director of Internet Society Netherlands since 2002. ISOC Netherlands is with its 800 members one of the largest and most active chapters of the International Internet Society. In addition he works as a senior policy advisor for the Netherlands National Computing Facilities foundation (part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). He studied Physics at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at Tilburg University. In recent years he has been very active for the e-Infrastructures Reflection Group, a European policy body involvd in advanced ICT infrastructures. He is member of the board of Gridforum Nederland, the Forum Burger@overheid.nl. He is actively involved in the promotion of standardisation efforts, including bing a member of the ICT Standards Board.
More information about the
SELF project, its
partners and the speakers can be found at the project website:
http://selfproject.eu
and at http://isoc.nl/SELF.
This day is organised with the help of the following parties.
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This
project is funded by the European Commission, Information Society
Technologies, with 978.000 €. Contract Nº 34595,
project name
SELF, Science,
Education and Learning in Freedom.
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