Cash assistance: restoring choice and dignity
From 2019 until 2022 at The Netherlands Red Cross my team and I have been developing the 121 Platform: a digital platform […]
How to use Scrum for delivering multiple projects
Can the Scrum Framework be effectively used to develop and deliver on a multitude of projects, with a larger team of 15+ […]
121 Platform increases scale and quality of Cash-Based Humanitarian Aid in Kenya
From 2019 until 2022 at The Netherlands Red Cross my team and I have been developing the 121 Platform: a digital platform […]
Are you suffering from Bilateritis?
Relax, I am not talking about a new strain of the Corona virus. And if you are suffering from Bilateritis, you will […]
Mission, Vision and Strategy for Pragmatists
What is your Strategic Vision? What are the Strategic Goals? What is in the Strategic Plan? “Strategic” seems to be word to […]
Beyond Leap-Of-Faith Entrepreneurship
This post could also be titled: How to avoid unnecessary risk. I encounter it with entrepreneurs more often than not: the willingness […]
Tech Lead + Scrum Master = Renaissance Person = Success!
“You have to specialize in one thing!”, for years I have been hearing this from (mostly) ‘more experienced’ people. And I always […]
Is There Life After Google?
Yes, there is! Is it a more convenient life? Well, no. Was it easy to get there? Hell no. More secure? Probably […]
What is Digital Social Innovation?
TLDR; Digital Social Innovation is innovation that is social in its purpose and digital in its solution. In other words: it makes […]
The 5 Things to Get Right in Social Innovation
To make your social innovation succeed, you need to get these right: Value Viability Impact Scalability Feasibility The catch: I believe you […]
Get serious using the (free) Social Business Model Calculator
Are you a Social Entrepreneur or working on innovation at an NGO or Social Enterprise/Start-up? Then you know how important it is […]
From fairy tale to success story
A little while back one of my clients asked me to help them create a “solid project plan” for their innovative project. […]
The Challenge of Digital Innovation
What is the formula for successful digital innovation? How do we make sure that it delivers value, is (financially) sustainable, can scale […]
Better Work Together
Do you want to work on stuff that matters? Since 2010 a group of people in Wellington, New Zealand have been organizing […]
Open Innovation & Open Design
This article originally appeared on thespindle.org about my presentation and workshop on Technology Trends, Open Source and Open Design for Humanitarian NGOs […]
Reinventing Startups
Once we have come to realize that the Silicon Valley model of startup-based innovation is not for the betterment of people and […]
Fab Lab-enabled Humanitarian Aid in India
Since June 2018 the state of Kerala in India has endured massive floodings, as you may have read in the news. This […]
The Fairy Tale of the Unicorn and the Zebras
Once upon a time hippies where roaming the world. They were a happy bunch, living in freedom and spiritual abundance. A small […]
Should you donate to Open Source Software?
In short: yes, you should! If you are a regular user and can afford it. For the longer version: read on. In […]
The Invisible Hole in Doughnut Economics
Doughnut Economics is one of the best books I have read in the past few years. I believe it should be standard […]
Do European Governments Publish Open Source Software?
From time to time I come across news articles about Governmental bodies in Europe adopting the use of Open Source Software. This […]
How to feel happy using your Apple MacBook (again)
In short: wipe Mac OS and install Elementary OS. In some more words: read on. If you are thinking: “I am feeling […]
No Time To Waste!
How are we going to feed 9+ billion people by 2050? Last week this question was at the heart of the Thought […]
Stop Trying To End Poverty
In the past months I have started to explore and getting myself involved in Humanitarian Aid organizations (NGOs), from an innovation perspective. […]
Unbox your Dropbox? Forget about TransIP Stack (for now)
Do you want to get rid of privacy-invading centralized Silicon Valley Cloud services like Dropbox, Google Calendar and Google Documents? Me too! […]
Conquer the World with Open Source
Last week I had the privilege and pleasure to do a talk at the Open Source Software and Hardware Congres (OSSH Event) […]
Shaping a vision of the future
I met Jesús Pérez, a friend of my wife, while on vacation on Tenerife. He invited to guide us on a trip […]
The Promise of Quantum Computing
CWI, the Research Center for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam, did a whole day of lectures on Quantum Computing and I […]
The Innovator’s Toolbox
Over the past years I have been using various models, methods and frameworks while developing innovative products and services with clients, for […]
Can NGOs benefit more from Innovation and Technology?
Recently we applied for UNICEF’s Wearables for Good Challenge and I read some interesting pieces on NGOs and innovation. Since these gave […]
Getting hands-on with FireFox OS and Geeksphone
By: Diderik van Wingerden and Mirjam Bekker While we are developing our own Open Products we also always keep an eye out […]
The top-10 “open” tech and digital moments in 2014
What happened in a year of “free and open technology”? This post highlights the main “open” tech and digital moments in 2014 […]
Apps for Energy Hackathon
Being one of the partner organizations of the “Open Data Estafette” conference on Renewable Energy, my client Enexis together with Grid Operator […]
We need Radical Innovation
It is not hard to see that many things have fundamentally gone wrong in our world. Just think of how rapidly we […]
Rock Stars? No way!
Having witnessed the first Rockstart Smart Energy Accelerator Demo Day in Amsterdam, I can conclude only one thing. Are these guys (yes, […]
Free Software, Free Society
Free software is a requirement for a modern free society. At least, according to the theme at the LibrePlanet Conference this year […]
Your Laptop wants to be Free
Do you want your laptop to free? Well, ‘free’ as in ‘freedom’ that is. If you looking for ‘gratis’, then this is […]
Privacy, who cares?
Are you becoming more and more aware and concerned about your on-line privacy and related security of your digital data? I have… […]
How the 99% will have it all
This post contains some of my random thoughts about a subject that has been going through my mind for quite some time […]
Social Game for Smart Energy “Ice Cream Ohmmeter”
In just 48 hours we put together a working prototype of the “Ice Cream Ohmmeter”: an app that makes Energy Savings seriously […]
Ectual Smart Energy Monitor for Enexis
As Technical Project Manager for Enexis I coordinating the software development of the Ectual, an electronic device that makes Smart Meter data […]
Where is that green MacBook?
Late last year I bought a new Apple MacBook Pro. An amazing device that I love to work with every day. The […]
Spotify Jukebox using NFC and RFID
We won 2 prizes again at The Next Web Hack Battle. This time with “Bring Your Own Music”: personalized Spotify Music Cards […]
On-line platform DordtSport.nl
For my client BLiS Web & Mobile I did Project and Technical Management of DordtSport.nl, the new on-line platform for sports in the […]
10 tips to connect to people at business events
In this post a crash course in business networking: 10 tips and tricks I have learned over many years and that still […]
Benchmarking IT Benefits – Exploring Outcome and Process Based Approaches
Egon Berghout, Peter Schuurman and I wrote a paper called “Benchmarking IT Benefits – Exploring Outcome and Process Based Approaches” for AMCIS, […]
Proof-of-concept Open Street Map Front-end
For the start-up Social Intern I created a proof-of-concept for the front-end mapping interface, using JavaScript, jQuery and Open Street Map (OSM).
Proof-of-concept Parse.com Back-end for Pebble Smartwatch
For Pebble Smartwatch (former inPulse Smartwatch) I created a proof-of-concept of their new user account front-end and back-end, using the messaging and data […]
Enterprise IT Reference Architecture
Together with 11 Housing Associations Marnix van Welie and I created an industry-wide Enterprise IT Reference Architecture (in Dutch) called “CORA” (Corporation […]
Sustainable Business and Green IT for Housing Associations
At M&I/Partners and together with NetwIT and Futura, Pim van den Broek and me surveyed 34 Housing Associations and performed two case […]
How to get a Unique Business Card that People Remember
The idea: a really original business card that people would remember.
Presentation about Co-Creation, Crowdsourcing and Social Media
For the young professionals at ‘Jonge Veranderaars‘ (part of Railforum, Nederlandse Spoorwegen), I held an introductory talk about co-creation, crowd sourcing and […]
Waar is Collaborative Consumption in Nederland?
This post is in Dutch. You can use Google Translate to read it in English. *** Update van de initiatieven in Nederland […]
Social game for Smart Energy “Electric Vampires”
At the The Next Web conference’s Hack Battle we won 2 prizes with a prototype of the social game Electric Vampires. The […]
Website for KinderKunstFABRIEK
For the voluntary organization KinderKunstFABRIEK I created a website, for free. The design was made by a hired freelance designer, the HTML […]
Ambition to Action
Pim van den Broek and me published another article on Green IT and Sustainability in Dutch called “Van ambitie naar actie“ (“Ambition […]
Questions about Green IT
After performing a survey and doing qualitative research on Green IT and Sustainability in the Housing Associations Industry Pim van den Broek […]
Social Media Maturity Model (S3M)
Together with Antoon van Luxemburg and other colleagues at M&I/Partners we created the Social Media Maturity Model (S3M). This was published on […]
Information Economics in Practice
For several years I did a guest lecture on “Information Economics in Practice” for students in Economics & Informatics at the Erasmus University […]
The Seven Pitfalls of Municipal Shared Service Centers
Together with Peter van Dijk and Jos Smits I wrote an article on the costs and benefits of IT partnerships for Municipalities. […]
Quick Reference Card – 10 Years of IT Benchmarks
Together with Ies van Rij I created a ‘Quick Reference Card‘ (in Dutch), summarizing the benchmark results of 10 years of IT […]
Business Case: 10 percent savings with EMR
After having made a Business Case for the implementation of a hospital-wide EMR, my colleagues and I at M&I/Partners did an after-go-live […]