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Urban Ecology Lab
Limit AI's climate impact
Waag Futurelab has signed the statement Within Bounds: Limiting AI’s Environmental Impact. Waag and 80+ organisations call on policymakers, industry leaders and all stakeholders to limit AI's climate impact.
Future Internet Lab
Marleen Stikker in VPRO Tegenlicht 'Protect your smartphone from big tech'
VPRO Tegenlicht spoke to Waag Futurelab director Marleen Stikker about the ways the smartphone threatens our freedom, and also how we can make ourselves more independent of the big tech that dominates the mobile ecosystem.
data privacy day
15 alternative apps for better privacy and wellbeing
Not-for-profit apps that are good for your privacy? With a nice design and amazing functionality? They exist! Check out our list of 15 apps that offer a viable alternative to big tech.
#MakeSocialsSocialAgain
Waag Futurelab launches collective campaign #MakeSocialsSocialAgain
The campaign calls on cultural and social organisations and users to actively engage in alternative social media platforms that safeguard public values.
30 years of Waag
Marleen Stikker on 30 years of Waag Futurelab: ‘We always dig just a little deeper’
Waag Futurelab is celebrating its 30 year anniversary! Marleen Stikker looks back on the history of Waag and the many people around it who make the organisation.
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What would be the ideal route for your data?
Waag Open: Internet routing
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The State of the Internet 2025
Mission
Waag Futurelab contributes to the research, design and development of a sustainable, just society
- By collectively researching emerging technology, and questioning underlying cultural assumptions;
- By experimenting with and designing alternatives on the basis of public values;
- By developing an open, fair and inclusive future together with civil society.
