Aris Ham door Jimena Gauna, Waag Futurelab

Aris HamProject Manager

Aris Ham is a project manager at Waag Futurelab, focusing on Future Internet Lab and Commons Lab projects.

Previously, Aris worked at film-oriented organisations, including a film distributor and an association for new image makers. Aris is trained as a marketer and media scientist. In 2022, he completed a master's degree in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. Aris is specifically interested in the role of ethics and design as tools within a rapidly changing digital environment. How do we ensure that public values and private interests can co-exist?

Labs

Future Internet Lab

Current projects

Digit-Able

Digit-Able aims to strengthen the digital capabilities and skills of social enterprises

Future Internet Lab

Mobifree

Mobifree aims to bring about change in the development and use of mobile software in Europe by citizens, businesses, non-profit organisations and governments.

Future Internet Lab

Responsible Business Models

In this project, Waag and HvA investigate the conditions for digital public spaces and the fundamental aspects of a responsible business model.

Maker Education Lab

Quantum Inspire

The potential of quantum technology is enormous, but how do we get the conversation in society started about the impact?

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.

Future Internet Lab

PublicSpaces

Waag is a co-initiator of the PublicSpaces Foundation, a coalition of now 70 public organisations working together on a digital ecosystem based on public values.

Closed projects

Future Internet Lab

Grip on Own Data

Waag Futurelab investigates how citizens can get 'grip on their own data'. We will analyse existing tools that the government currently makes available to give citizens insight into data that the government processes about them.