Gijs Boerwinkel

Gijs BoerwinkelHead of Communications

Gijs Boerwinkel is Waag's head of communications. In his position, he is constantly looking for new ways to connect relevant target groups to the research labs and projects of Waag. He is the co-lead of Waag's Interface team.

Gijs studied political science and political communications at University of Amsterdam. Previously, he worked for Text to Change, a social enterprise that uses mobile technology to inform people in developing countries about subjects related to health and agriculture. Also, for a short period of time, he worked for the Tour de France organisation in Utrecht, where he was responsible for press relations and communications.

Current projects

Future Internet Lab

Tactical Media Room

The Tactical Media Room aims to support independent tactical media, journalists, newsrooms and civic initiatives from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus.

Future Internet Lab

CATRIN

Controllable, Accountable, Transparent: the Responsible Internet. Waag is working on a foundation for a new internet to increase trust in the digital world.

Closed projects

Future Internet Lab

Public Stack: the alternative internet

The internet is broken, but alternatives are available. We call the collection of these open, fair and safe alternatives the Public Stack.

Mij niet gezien

Until summer, Waag will be experimenting with warranting privacy for participants in our public events.

Future Internet Lab

Hackathon de groene stad

In het project hackathon groene steden komen initiatieven bijeen die zich focussen op het vergroenen van steden. Waag organiseert vier groen-expedities en een hackathon.

Chamber of Commons

The Chamber of Commons bolsters the interests of commons and commoners.

Smart Citizens Lab

GammaSense 2.0

With GammaSense 2.0 we develop a citizen network for the measurement of radioactive radiation.

Future Internet Lab

Digital Identity Lab

The Digital Identity Lab looked for new ideas, concepts and concrete tools that can include a reliable and secure digital identity.

WeMakeThe.City

WeMakeThe.City is the festival that makes cities better.

Future Internet Lab

Do Worry, be happy

In the blog series 'Do worry, be happy!' we talk to experts in the field of technology, innovation and ethics about new developments.

Co-creation Lab

Co-creation navigator

Co-creation is a powerful way to deal with 'wicked problems' and innovate your professional practice.

Made4You

In the European project, Made4You, we're building an international learning community of makers, care recipients, and healthcare professionals over a three year period.

Future Internet Lab

Mobility Urban Values

Mobility Urban Values (MUV) is a three-year European project that examines how to engage citizens with 'gamification' in stimulating towards sustainable mobility choices in their neighbourhood.

Co-creation Lab

Cities-4-People

Cities-4-People is a three year project that aims to implement a pilot program running at five urban and peri-urban areas where citizens, city authorities and innovation experts will work together as ‘communities’ to define the transport and mobility challenges and priorities that interest them, co-design ideas and concepts, put these concepts to the real test and then scale up those more potent.

Future Internet Lab

DECODE

DECODE develops practical alternatives through the creation, evaluation and demonstration of a distributed and open architecture for managing online identity, personal and other data, and collective governance in a citizen-friendly and privacy-aware fashion.

Future Heritage Lab

The Digital City revives

We aren’t doing enough to preserve our digital lives for the future, so we lose crucial information.

DSI4EU

Digital Social Innovation in Europe (DSI4EU) supports digital social innovation networks in Europe.

Smart Citizens Lab

Making Sense

Making Sense showed how open-source software, open-source hardware, digital maker practices and open design can be used by local communities to make sense of their environments.