Only 5 days untill the Summit starts! We will kick it off at Thursday 28 October 9.30 hrs. in Trouw Amsterdam, Wibautstraat 127. There are still some spots left, so register now and join us next week! We are really looking forward to it and already want to give you some sneak previews into what’s [...]

Digital Pioneers has joined forces with Marcel van der Drift & Arnoud van den Heuvel (Don’t do it yourself) to facilitate a special programme during the Summit. If you can’t do it yourself, they will help you trade skills with someone who can! We interviewed Arnoud and Marcel shortly about themself and the project…
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During the Summit, Digital Pioneers will present their projects and ideas every hour in the Hall of Trouw Amsterdam. On 28 October 11.15 hrs Dolf Veenvliet from the Blender community will tell us all about 3D open cinema and Sintel, the movie which has recently been released. We are very happy to have him over, [...]

During the Summit, Digital Pioneers will present their projects and ideas every hour in the Hall of Trouw Amsterdam. On 29 October 15.15 hrs co-founder of *openmargin Joep Kuijper will tell us all about how they started the project and what it is all about. We interviewed him shortly about himself and the project…

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We are almost ready to kick the State of Social Media Summit off! Here’s an update on the programme. All keynote speakers are confirmed and we are happy to introduce them to you. Also take a look at the clinic sessions and the round tables to see if there’s something you can contribute to or [...]

As of today the registration for the State of Social Media Summit is open! We organize the international conference on social innovation on the Internet on 28-29 October 2010 in Trouw Amsterdam (Wibautstraat 127, Amsterdam). From an international perspective we look at the impact of small-scale civil society media initiatives on society and the media [...]

While the Gay Parade pre-started the party last Friday night, we had a great dinner with digital pioneers, artists, researchers, activists and programmers and talked about the state of open e-culture in the Netherlands. Thank you all for your contributions! And thank you Sebastiaan for making pictures, you can see the whole set here.

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Tonight we are hosting a round table session on social media and open culture in cooperation with Creative Commons Netherlands. Together with different stakeholders working as researcher, activist, programmer, digital pioneer in the field of open e-culture media projects, we will address the following questions:

In what ways has the open – [...]

In the last few weeks we have been busy making a questionnaire for all pioneers who have been supported since the beginning of the Digital Pioneers program in 2002. Today we sent the questionnaire to some 180 people in our network! And now we are hoping for a big response to make some more sense [...]

On October 28-29 we wille close off the Digital Pioneers programme with the State of Social Media Summit in TrouwAmsterdam. In preparation of and during the Summit, we examine the impact of small-scale Internet projects and organizations, how they affect the media landscape and the challenges such organizations face in the future.
The Summit will be [...]