Marleen Stikker
- Founder
Marleen Stikker is founder of Waag.
Marleen Stikker (1962) is also founder of 'De Digitale Stad' (The Digital City) in 1993, the first virtual community introducing free public access to the Internet in Amsterdam. She leads Waag, a social enterprise that consists of a research institute for creative technologies and social innovation and Waag Products, that launched companies like Fairphone, the first fair smartphone in the world.
She is also member of the European H2020 Commission High-level Expert Group for SRIA on innovating Cities/DGResearch and the Dutch AcTI academy for technology & innovation.
Marleen Stikker strongly adheres to the Maker's Bill of Rights motto: "If You Can't Open It, You Don't Own It". Marleen believes that society needs open technologies that meet societal challenges.
Articles
codeCommons Lab12-01-2018Only in very exceptional cases may the city outsource its ICT, Jelle de Graaf and Marleen Stikker are writing in an opinion article in newspaper Het…
codeCommons Lab24-12-2017This has been a tough year for those who believe in the good in people. But there are a few positive notes, says Marleen Stikker.
makeOpen Design Lab10-11-2017As the means of digital fabrication become mainstream, the challenge of the maker movement lies in defining its values of sustainability, openness…
codeCommons Lab17-07-2017The sharing economy is having an enormous impact on our cities. In the coming years new technological developments will change them even more…
lifeCreative Care Lab12-05-2017This opinion article witten by Marleen Stikker has not yet been translated. For the moment, please turn to the Dutch version. We may provide a full…
codeInterface09-05-2017Whereas the DSI (digital social innovation) policy agenda was mainly focused on the level of the European Union, we see that cities are strongest in…
