Wouter Tebbens

Wouter Tebbens is project manager and advisor at PublicSpaces. He has led several values-driven startups: the Free Knowledge Institute in Amsterdam, the Free Technology Academy in Europe,  The Online Meeting Cooperative – meet.coop, CommonsCloud.coop , and the cooperative femProcomuns in Barcelona. For the last 20 years, he has contributed to an open and free Internet and the commons as a perspective for socio-economic renewal. He has researched online platforms and a "human centric digital age," as well as sustainable and open business models for mission-driven collectives, about which he teaches and advises organisations. He loves working with people to make things happen. With his engineering background, he thinks about processes and effective collaboration in a networked environment. He likes to view the world from an international perspective.