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jean lievens
April 10, 2016 6:51 AM
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Science knows what people need in their lives to be happy, so why don't our economies support these needs? Can we create a world where everybody has enough?
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jean lievens
January 9, 2016 12:00 PM
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RT @iMinds: Want to learn more about Open Knowledge? Join the next @openbelgium, on February 29th: https://t.co/pbiGfhwvy8
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jean lievens
November 23, 2015 3:07 PM
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New office, woohoo! After a long and exhausting search, we finally found a new office space. Hurray! We’d like to celebrate this joyful news with an awesome office warming. Come and check out our new office for yourself!
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jean lievens
May 2, 2015 5:45 AM
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Crowdsourcing the next open Summer of code speakers - Open Knowledge Belgium http://t.co/teX504O5Ce via @villum
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jean lievens
March 10, 2015 6:49 PM
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Belgium-based green energy provider Elegant is now accepting bitcoin payments following requests from various clients.
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jean lievens
February 26, 2015 5:20 AM
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jean lievens
February 25, 2015 3:37 PM
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In January 2015, Paul Otlet’s heritage has fallen into the public domain.
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jean lievens
February 24, 2015 4:13 PM
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It is April 14th, 2011. In the city of Ghent a group of digital creatives gathers in a bar, to attend the third event in a series of 10 of GentM.
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jean lievens
February 2, 2015 4:59 PM
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Something very powerful feels to me like it is starting to move. I see it in the victory of Syriza in Greece on a platform of localisation, resilience building and sustainability as an antidote to austerity. I see it in the explosion of craft breweries, farmers markets, community energy companies and so on, in Scotland's moratorium on gas fracking. I also saw it in the two days I just spent in Belgium supporting the great work of the regional Transition hub “Wallonia-Brussels” there. The trip was also to support the Belgian release of the French language version of The Power of Just Doing Stuff (“Ils Changent le Monde”).
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jean lievens
November 1, 2014 9:42 AM
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Take changes to the public and private sectors together and you’ll see that new government measures will reduce total employment considerably. Family budgets will shrink and so will demand and business earnings. Nevertheless, corporations will benefit because of the large cut in labour costs and the constant rise in productivity that permits further staff reductions.
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jean lievens
August 5, 2014 12:49 AM
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Status: this book achieved its third printing in a very short time in the Flanders ; we're looking for an english and other language publishers. French translation is already secured.
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jean lievens
January 20, 2014 4:17 PM
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jean lievens
December 24, 2013 5:42 AM
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Today the success stories of AirBnB, BlaBlaCar, Lyft, and others are already well known. The rise of these initiatives is just one side of the sharing economy. In many neighborhoods, peer-initiatives are flourishing. Something new is happening - the rise of active citizenship, people identifying themselves with their neighborhood, working on social cohesion - a renaissance of neighborhoods and bringing people together who believe in each other. At least this is happening in the Belgian city Ghent where local initiatives received a big window: a very successful sharefest took place this September.
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jean lievens
February 6, 2016 4:13 PM
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Open.BTCCTB is a web-based information platform that aims to enhance transparency in accordance with Belgium's commitments in the matter.
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jean lievens
January 5, 2016 5:17 PM
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The Assembly of the Commons is a part of a double proposal by the P2P Foundation, to recreate civic power around the commons.
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jean lievens
May 26, 2015 3:40 PM
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Via David Bollier: (go to the original article for many interesting links) “Interest in the commons in Belgium is much stronger than I had imagined. At an environmental symposium in Brussels on Friday, the organizers of “The Commons: (Co)managing Commonly Owned Resources,” had to turn away people at the door. It was standing room only …
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jean lievens
March 19, 2015 5:32 PM
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For the first time in history, people all over the world can connect with each other and produce common value: a universal encyclopedia (Wikipedia), an operation system (Linux) or the design of a mother board (Arduino). They are building complex systems outside traditional organizations such as companies, government institutions or NGO’s. In addition, they don’t do it for the money, but because they like to do it, because they want to make themselves useful, because they want to solve a problem… Therefore, we are dealing with a new (proto-) mode of production, peer production. It is a hyper productive mode of production because it is based on passionate production and therefore, it has the tendency to outperform traditional businesses. In this chapter, Michel Bauwens places P2P within a historical framework and explains this new form of collaboration, sharing en producing.
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jean lievens
February 27, 2015 6:18 PM
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Jean Lievens
Apps for Antwerp: From Open Data to Open Services
Since 2012 the City of Antwerp is releasing open data and the datasets keep coming our way, but that is not all what Antwerp is releasing.
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jean lievens
February 25, 2015 3:39 PM
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Since 2012 the City of Antwerp is releasing open data and the datasets keep coming our way, but that is not all what Antwerp is releasing.
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jean lievens
February 24, 2015 4:14 PM
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Open Belgium has been carefully planning the release of a Local Open Data Census, which is a benchmark, similar to the National Open Data Census, as a way to measure local Open Data efforts.
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jean lievens
February 24, 2015 4:02 PM
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jean lievens
January 29, 2015 3:15 PM
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The economy of FLOSS (Free and open source software) has been the subject of numerous studies and publications, particularly on the issue of business models. However, there are fewer studies on the local networks of FLOSS providers. This research focuses on the ecosystem of Belgian FLOSS providers and, more specifically, their geographical distribution, the activities, technologies and software they support, their business models, their economic performance and the relationships between companies.
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jean lievens
September 26, 2014 11:14 AM
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The Networked Society - by Saskia van Uffelen - Vice-President of the European Commission (RT @VUSaskia: "ICT is the missing link"... Curious what I have to say about the digital future?
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jean lievens
February 12, 2014 1:55 AM
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Growth Hacking Ghent #0: Kickoff
Thursday, Jan 23, 2014, 6:30 PM
Parkoffice
Franklin Rooseveltlaan 348-349
73 Growth Hackers Went
Another day another city...
Trying to cater to all tech entrepreneurs and companies we are growth hacking our way through Belgium. The 3rd city to join the Growth Hacking Belgium network is Ghent, courtesy of our host Parkoffice.
For the "veterans": we will present the very same introduction as the first time in Brussels.
For new members: this meet...
Check out this Meetup →
Trying to cater to all tech entrepreneurs and companies we are growth hacking our way through Belgium. The 3rd city to join the Growth Hacking Belgium network is Ghent, courtesy of our hostParkoffice.
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jean lievens
January 18, 2014 9:46 AM
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The Belgian Bitcoin Association is here to support Bitcoin users in Belgium. It provides support in the form of promotion, education, legal, accounting and technical help.
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