Jan-Bart de Vreede

Jan-Bart de Vreede

Vice Chair Board of Trustees at Wikimedia Foundation

TED Attendee
Gouda, Netherlands
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About Jan-Bart

I am a…

Brainstormer, Change agent, Connector, Educator/Teacher, Explorer, Idea generator, Policy maker

Bio

Working at the Kennisnet Foundation allowed Jan-Bart to spend time promoting the use of wiki software and Wikimedia projects in education, amongst other things. The Kennisnet Foundation is a publicly funded Dutch organisation. At Kennisnet Jan-Bart is responsible for the Kennisnet communities. He has been involved with Wikimedia since 2004, through his role as a Board member and his work at Kennisnet. He has attended and spoken at all of Wikimania conferences. He is currently involved with the Wikiwijs project within the Netherlands. This is a countrywide initiative aimed at encouraging teachers to develop and share Open Educational Resources. Jan-Bart de Vreede spent most of his childhood in the Netherlands, also living in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Kenya and the United States. He studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management. He has three children: Anna (3), Matthias (8) and Ruben (11).

I'm passionate about

Open Content and Open Educational Resources. Motivating teachers to share their creations with the rest of their colleagues

Areas of expertise

Community's, education, OER, search, Wikipedia