During the Safari Week worked together with other pioneers and the Kennisland team to develop and prototype interventions that reinforce the knowledge society. In small teams we worked on real innovation cases provided by real clients in the public sector, education and creative industry. The most innovative results have a chance of being incubated or promoted beyond the Safari Week.

We proudly present our biggest source of knowledge and experience for the Safari: The participants!

Tage Skotvold
Tage is 28 years old and is from Levanger in Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Currently undertaking a Msc. in Business Creation and Entrepreneurship from Tromsø University Business School, Tage has previous education from NTNU (Informatics), Bachelor in Creative Music Technology from Bath University and an MA in Music Technology from London Metropolitan University. From 2006 Tage worked at a marketing agency in London and has also worked as a recruitment consultant. He has entrepreneurial experience from starting up three businesses within the fields of web design, web domain brokering and BCE Impulse, a social entrepreneurship organization. Tage's main role in BCE Impulse is chairman of the board, website, on-site technical and overall project planning.

Mari Nilsen
Mari is 29 years old and is from Tromsø, Norway. She has a masters degree in fishery from the University of Tromsø. After she finished her master she worked for a couple of years with aquaculture at the Directorate of Fisheries. In August 2009 she excitedly went back to university to start her second master’s degree, the Business Creation and Entrepreneurship programme together with 9 international students. At the age of 11 she went on a summer camp with children from around the world and that was when her interest for other cultures evolved. She joined BCE Impulse with a dream of making a difference and learning about project work, social entrepreneurship and Kenya. Mari's main role in BCE Impulse is vice chairman of the board, media contact and fundraising activities.

Danielle Emans
Daniëlle works at Knowledgeland as a consultant Smart Government and is active with the organization of the State of Social Media Summit; a conference about social innovation. During her studies Social Psychology Danielle got fascinated by the way people influence each other during interaction. Also as a consultant social interaction is a leading topic. In her work for the Kafkabrigade she beliefs in bringing people together who have a shared problem but watch the world from a different perspective, like front line officers, politicians, policy makers but most important: civilians. Danielle beliefs that the most effective solutions can be made by gathering them and confront them with concrete social problems.

Peter Kasbergen
Peter Kasbergen (1984) studied public administration, political science and philosophy at Leiden University and Utrecht University. He graduated with a thesis on microfinance in the Netherlands.
Having founded the company Public Cinema (public-cinema.com) with the help of microfinance himself, Peter is dedicated to creating public value by conducting social research and producing videos for organizations in the public sector.
Peter is also an avid writer and public speaker. He recently contributed to the book The State of Access: Successes and Failures of Democracy in Creating Equal Opportunities (eds. G. Rizvi & J. de Jong, 2009). On his blog kafekasbergen.blogspot.com (in Dutch), he publishes essays, short stories and columns. 

Carolina Rubio
Personal: Spanish nationality, aged 39 and married (to a Dutch) with 2 children. A citizen of the world, I first left home for a long period of time at the age of 16. As a student I lived in the USA, France, The Netherlands and Spain.A world traveler I like multinational environments, I get inspired at the SEA and enjoy live concerts and reading. After my graduation in 94 I have been working for IT multinationals in the fields of enterprise e-business and e-learning in several locations: Morocco, Holland and Spain. Since 2009, I work for the Basque Innovation Agency where I am a Program Director and responsible for the Innovators Community, an online platform for participation and collaboration that facilitates the connection between equals: Individuals, public and private entities and government. Our aim with this online community is to strength the networking to promote and implement online and offline actions that provide sustainable social and/or economical benefit to our region. A long term project and a huge challenge… participation, collaboration and it's online!!! I believe we currently live a perfect momentum to implement strong changes that can make the world a smarter place. I am looking forward to share new ideas, projects, initiatives, successes and failures… to contribute to a smarter Holland and a smarter World.

Hortense Koster
reporter, research & strategy
Armed with a bevy of analytical methodologies and trend analysis aimed at studying and evaluating the consumer, market and brand, I assist clients in defining new marketing opportunities.
Key area’s: youth, trends and advertising
Trndmrkr.blogspot.com
 

Hannah Aukes
My name is Hannah Aukes and I can't wait to go on a Safari and meet the other travellers! I'm an adventurous and sportive person and I like coming up with creative solutions for things we might bump into (you never know what you'll find at such a trip!). In daily life I work part-time for the ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the other half of the week I run my own business. Core of my business: writing. That's still a broad description for me, but it varies from copywriting to journalistic articles and for my application for Kennisland I wrote a poem. And I should not forget to mention that I like (modestly) to work at projects to keep this world inspired. Well, I think we stepped in the right jeep!

Mylene Jonker
I'm Mylene Jonker and much of me is in what I do. I'm founder of Who cares? and love working on the visual enhancement of things that make life more interesting.  Who cares? is a multidisciplinary designstudio specializing in designing and making spatial installations for events. Who cares? often works for organisations dealing with complex matters. 
Much attention in the designproces is paid to awareness about (visual) identity and being creatively resourceful in representing and activating what an organisation stands for.

Tessa Houben
I'm Tessa Houben, turning 28 this sunday (July 11), and I'm looking forward to the Kennisland Safari. I think it will be an inspiring experience to meet up with committed young people from different backgrounds to discuss our ideals and turn those ideals into action. I am currently working for a consulting agency and advice Dutch municipalities on social topics such as Integration, Financial Services and Individual Facilities. Last summer I made a big trip to the Middle East in a jeep with a tent on the roof. I drove from Amsterdam to Iran and met wonderful people and cultures on the way. I hope we get the chance to talk more about all our experiences and learnings at Kennisland. Looking forward to meet you!

Alex Blei
Kunst zit van binnen. Als je je hart opent, onbevangen kijkt, proeft en jezelf verwondert, kun je de wereld om je heen vormgeven. Kunst vormt je menszijn, zij brengt mensen bij elkaar en is zonder oordeel. Pas als je elkaar echt ontmoet, ontstaat er kunst.
Art comes from within. When you open your heart, view the world without prejudice, when you use all your senses and astound yourself, you can shape the world around you. Art forms the nature of your being, it brings people together and is without judgement. Only when you truly meet each other, art is born.

Iker Sagasti Markina
Iker Sagasti Markina is Telecommunications Engineer and Industrial Engineer with specialization in Industrial Electronics from the University of Deusto, completed his training in various technical seminars and business management. Young entrepreneur, is founder and CEO of Irontec (www.irontec.com), one of the most important company in free software. Since 2005, board member and founder of Esle, the Association of Free Software Companies in Euskadi, an organization that promotes the the use of free software in all areas of society. Free software evangelist has given dozens of conferences and training courses around the technology and business model throughout Euskadi, Spain and Europe. Collaborates regularly in groups and movements related to the social use of it. Iker Sagasti is also one of the Comunnity Managers of the Basque Community of Innovators.

Victor Wollaert
Victor I am a 31 year old entrepreneur and pioneer living and working in the most beautiful city of The Netherlands: Rotterdam. My drive is to build beautiful organisations for a more beautiful world. I believe that the true potential of organisations lies within its people. Trust, responsability and (personal) entrepreneurship are to my opinion key values of ‘the next organisation’. My study background is in International Business studies at the University of Maastricht and in photography at the art academy in The Hague. I am an NLP practitioner. I have worked as a consultant and entrepreneur at JongeHonden and have started a new consultancy agency WijZijnSI since January first.

Anastasia Kalinina
Anastasia Kalinina is a creator and coordinator of independent international projects, writer, poet, dreamer and traveler. She is a communication strategist and fundraising consultant with a major experience in the ngo sector, human rights, gender studies, creative labs, PR and social innovation. ��She led on the development and implementation of numerous human rights projects, including digital projects on domestic violence and issues of HIV-positive people. She worked out campaigning strategies to deliver impact in relation to gender issues and protection of the rights of at-risk groups in Russia as well as participated in numerous international exchange and training programmes on human rights and other social issues. In 2009 she took part in project Palomar5 that brought together 28 daring minds in Berlin together 24/7 during 6 weeks. They created environments for positive innovations, and realized new ideas ranging from global free internet, to giant artistic displays, from deep philosophical exploration, to hands on play and experimentation. Anastasia holds BA in Literature, Humanitarian Sciences and Arts and a MA in Communication Studies. Next year she will pursue MA in Human Rights in the London School of Economics and Political Science. Anastasia is one of the 600 certified NASBITE professionals in the world. She is a published writer and a poet who thinks that people are meant to reproduce their experiences in art.

Patrick Veenhoff
A man of the world, of many languages and possessed of rare drive and ambition, Patrick is a quick study, sponge for knowledge, natural-born leader and team motivator. The decision to keep following his passion drew him to study Neuro-Linguistic Programming and to found insightz. Today, as a Brain Optimiser and a talent scout for rising young stars, he is dedicated to creating the circumstances whereby they can learn to unlock their own potential, triumph over psychological barriers, become better communicators and happier people. In short: Brain Optimisation, Entrepreneurship, Social Media, Travel, Ducati, Nikon, Apple

Karlijn Karsten
My name is Karlijn Karsten and I'm studying International Public Health at VU University. I am interested in societal influences on health issues in migrants. For instance, the effect of unemployment on quality of life or the effect of neighborhoods on diet.
At the municipality of Amsterdam I was able to bring my interest into practice and at the Kennisland Social Innovation Safari, I wish to do so as well!

CJ Özer
“I am born in Izmir, Turkey, I am 31, I came over to the Netherlands some years ago to study and have stayed here so far –and will stay as long as I like it here. My Turkish name is ÇaÄ�lar and non-Turkish self-given name is Jimmy, therefore CJ. I love to smile, I pursue dreams in reality, I dont believe in borders, world is my home, Love is my essence. I believe in Oneness, i believe in Humanity. I dont like football J I am a bit eccentric, I listen to everyone with a very open-mind, yet I feel, think and do my own thing, which allows me to be, as well as ‘free’ and creative. I love music, believe it to be the only language every living creature speaks. I used to be a financial consultant for quiet a while, now I import Saffron –the romantic spice- to the Netherlands to make a living. My purpose in life is to help humanity develop, to promote Love, from which goodness/kindness originates. I express self through reflection-oriented photography, divine-oriented poetry, and heart touching ideas. In short, question is a key, answer is a door, I am not afraid to ask, not afraid to answer, not afraid to explore, thus Kennisland Safari! J’

Heleen Groenendijk
Starting out from a background studies in New Media and Digital Culture and Art academy , Heleen  has  worked as a creative producer in the media industry for eight years, in which she has developed and produced animated series,  games, websites  and interactive concepts. Heleen's company is called Portmantoo. Mission statement: To create high quality games, apps and animation for children and the culturally minded. "A well told story engages people and encourages participation, reflection and commitment. It brings a message across and can help to recruit the people and capital you need. The power of stories lies in the mind; they organize our memories and help us to understand complex concepts. As stories inspire me I like to work on anything where narration meets interactivity. "

Noam Kostucki
I believe in having a positive social impact, and that there are too many wasted talents. At the beginning of my second year of Civil Engineering at Bristol University, I am invited to give 6 weeks of training at Yale University. All get all excited and ask my dean if we can reschedule my exams, but he thinks it's a waste of time. I decide to do what any sensible and reasonable person would do: I go to Yale, and within 6 months receive a letter from the uni asking where I have been. Here I realise something needs to change in education.
How do I make the world a better place? I co-founded a social eco-system, which aims to bring together people who want to make the world a better place. I started my coaching journey when I started teaching judo at fifteen. I am until end of July, the training consultant for the Directory of Social Change and I have developed the first course focused on the Web 2.0 and Social Media for the Institute of Fundraising in the UK. I am thrilled to have been invited to train over four thousand people in thirteen countries, and by institutions such as Yale University, HP and the British Heart Foundation. My most exciting talk this year was at TEDx in Warsaw:  http://bit.ly/noamTEDtalk

Brock LeMieux
"There is a Zen belief affirming that upon leaping, a net will appear. This seems a fitting statement for the story. My extremely brief life has been a journey of leaps that have now led me to Amsterdam as a Knowmad at a new business school for the world. After living on the sunny Costa del Sol in Spain, I found myself back in the United States studying Philosophy, French, and Playwriting at Perpich Center for Arts Education. Leaping for over two years, I've found myself on pilgrimage to Santiago, Varanasi, Palestine, and Paris. My passion is travel, mostly for the sake of moving. After a cold winter squatting with circus performers in Montreal, Knowmads has been a great leap that has shown me an entirely new way of moving. Happy travels everyone!"

Bart Roosenboom
I am Bart and I have been an intern at Kennisland for the last 5.5 months. During my studies I have thrown myself into the fields of politics, society and education. In the next two years I will finish this by doing a research master in Educational Sciences. During my internship I have heard and read a lot about social innovation, but I have never really experienced or conducted it myself. Therefore I would love to end my internship by doing some hands’ on social innovation, instead of creating the conditions or making incentives for social innovation to take place top down. Furthermore, I have already met a lot of very interesting people at Kennisland, but I would love to hear the experiences of other people in social innovation, work and the non-profit/public sector.

Saar Francken
I believe in change by action. Of course it starts with a good idea and you have to have some second thoughts, but you’ll never know if it works if you don’t try to make it work. This preference for action might have something to do with my impatience.. If you see someone tilting her chair and summarizing the actions she wrote down, you can be sure it’s me. I’m Saar Francken and I’m currently unleashing my impatience in several ways, my action radius involves Nieuwe Maan, De Optimist, Dag van de Dialoog and Seven Days of Inspiration. I’m happy to get active with all of you during this Social Innovation Safari!

Simon Rawlence
Studied Economics and History at Cambridge University. Post graduate studies: Fellow Institute of Chartered Accountants. Accredited Mediator CEDR( Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution). Established four accountancy and financial services practices in UK over the period 1977 to 2007. One of the first small businesses to implement the Investors in People standard. Went on to help other small business clients develop themselves and their personnel. Director and then Chairman of South Wiltshire Business Link, a government agency set up to support Small and Medium sized Enterprises. He has lived in Czech Republic since 1999. He has worked in the non profit sector as an organisational adviser on EU projects in CR and Hungary. For 5 years was a partner in MOST consulting, a management training company and currently coaches individual executives. He is also director of CIC Consulting a consultancy matching Czech and British SMEs in long term partnerships. From  2007 until December 2009 he was executive director of the British Chamber of Commerce in Czech Republic, during which time the chamber won the award for the best CSR achievements in Europe. Simon is married for the second time to Katerina Silhanova, who runs a Non Profit organisation in Czech Republic. He has four adult children and is President of the Czech Moravian Cricket Association.

Thieu Besselink
I wrote my PhD with Richard Sennett, who taught me that it does not matter if your project does not fit in the system, that if you follow what really matters to you there is always a way around. Coming from different disciplines and being born with the desire to not only study the world, but also having a hand in changing it for the better, I tried to find ways of connecting the process of creation to the process of learning. This became 'The River Institute', of which 'The Learning Lab' is an offspring. Because what I found was that the most significant things to learn are those you learn when you are creating. Entrepreneurship - taking risk and responsibility to upgrade reality with a materializing dream - became my vehicle for research, and so my study became a means for change.

Yomi Hitijahubessy
Yomi Hitijahubessy [NL] graduated from the Education Modern Theatre Dance at the Theatreschool Amsterdam in 2006. She has been working for companies and danced in several projects in the Netherlands, Switzerland, the USA, and the UK.  For her, dance is a way to connect with people and it supplies the daily recommended amount of true happiness. Interested in social change and innovation, she’s trying to find new ways to explore her creative side to bring new perspectives into the world. Her favourite flower is the sunflower.

Christina Jordan
Christina Jordan is an American social innovator with 25+ years of experience in international development, including more than a decade designing and implementing online collaboration strategies for community impact from East Africa. In 2001 she became the first Ashoka fellow in the east African region for her work at http://lifeinafrica.com that included socio-economic empowerment initiatives for war-affected families from Northern Uganda. She currently lives in Brussels, Belgium, where she has recently founded Evolutionize It, a social enterprise dedicated to facilitating collaboration in the social change sector worldwide. Evolutionize It studies the challenges faced by social entrepreneurs around the world in working together and helps co-create systems that can make meaningful, viable collaboration among more players in the social change space happen. Christina holds a degree in linguistics from UCLA and a Masters in Foreign Service with a focus on business in developing countries from Georgetown University.

Betül EllialtıoÄ�lu Seçkin (1980)
I studied architecture at Ä°stanbul Technical University (2004), and had masters of science degree in "Architectural Design" also at Ä°stanbul Technical University (2007). My faith in unpredictability of human being, drove my thesis statement to “Personalization and Appropriation of Space”. I worked in some architectural offices in Ä°stanbul about five years and now I am living in Amsterdam. Relation of art, science and human, makes architecture dispensable for me. I have my own social website named "Miimar" to connect this three main subject under architecture.

Martijn van Loon
Martijn van Loon [NL] enjoys having a good cup of enthusiasm to start his day. Graduated from the Technical University in Delft, he is still discovering the world everyday. During his education he travelled to Tanzania, Argentina, Taiwan, Russia, Sweden and USA to broaden his view on societal issues and innovation. As an industrial design engineer, he is interested in working towards a society where people are assisted, informed, educated and changed for the better by inspiring products and services. Co-creation with different disciplines is the perfect sparkle for innovation.

Nienke van Ruiten
Nienke van Ruiten, 30 years old. Marketing Manager Philips, currently preparing creative sustainability toolkit. I love nature, photography, philosophy, playing sports and chilling with my friends. I like to create ideas that will put a smile on your face.

The cases
You will be working on the following cases:

• Jeugdzorg Amsterdam (Office for Juvinal Care) is a looking for ways to innovate in their complex organisation. What is going wrong? Interview the people involved and design simple intervention for a complex problem.
• IJburg is one of the youngest neighbourhood in Amsterdam and already facing serious challenges: small enterpreneurs are having a hard time surviving, different social groups don't mix. A group of active residents of IJburg want to make their neighbourhood more livable and need your help!
• Filmmuseum Amsterdam will be moving to a new location (Amsterdam Noord) and wants to involve the neighbourhood. What ways can be found to make this cultural institution part of the neighbourhood and how can the people living there profit from this and add their value?
• Mixacademy: An alternative art academy in the center of Amsterdam. What can they do to stimulate creative entrepreneurschip and offer chances to talented people without focusing on prior education?

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The hosts

Chris Sigaloff
Chris is Vice-Chair of Knowledgeland and specialises in social innovation, organisational transformation, collaboration processes and internal (bottom-up) innovation.
Chris leads projects across education and the public sector. She is currently involved in facilitating collaboration between leading edge practitioners (the Innovators Network); stimulating teacher-led innovation in education systems (Education Pioneers); and empowering communities by organising kitchen table forums and breakthrough courses. Chris‘ expertise is in the design and facilitation of courses through which people jointly create new knowledge - knowledge about the ability to create more public value, to collaborate more effectively, and to focus daily action as a professional.
After studying Social Geography at the University of Amsterdam, Chris started her career in Geneva at an international migration and asylum organisation. In 1998 she moved to the Nyenrode Business University in Breukelen, The Netherlands where she worked for the Executive Management Development Centre, devising in-company programs for countless organisations. She became expert in the design and delivery of educational courses to stimulate change and innovation, creating stimulating environments in which participants search for different and better solutions. Chris is married and has two daughters.

Kwela Sabine Hermanns
Kwela Sabine Hermanns of PortalToYourDreams is co-organiser and host of the Kennisland Social Innovation Safari Amsterdam. She has a commitment to innovation that is space-based, promotes the sharing of knowledge and perspectives across generations, and invites the ‘crucial outsider’ into dialogue around sustainable innovation. Kwela is an Education Designer (she co-initiated and acts as Ambassador for the independent Knowmads School for Social Entrepreneurs) and also specializes in New Media developments (she co-organises the Augmented Reality Business Conference ARBCON in Berlin) and interactive Process and Event Design.

Motto: Always walk your shoe size. Never too small. Always grow new roots. Boldly combine different colors. Carry something to augment your gaze: See more, see further, see outside your context. I can't make the F T RE without 'U' and 'U'.
You can see a recent video of Kwela speaking at Fail Conference in Berlin here: http://vimeo.com/12807304
Info: www.portaltoyourdreams.com, www.secondsight.nl, www.knowmads.nl, www.arbcon.eu, www.twitter.com/KwelaHermanns

Corline van Es
Corline has worked for Knowledgeland since 2006. As social innovation and social media consultant, she focuses on small initiatives with great impact potential. She coordinated Digital Pioneers and directs the Digital Pioneers Academy, as well as the Doetank Mentale Veerkracht (Dotank Mental Resilience) course for the Trimbos Institute.
All of these projects revolve around creating educational environments, knowledge transfer and going through transition together. She also forms part of Bridge-IT, an educational network that focuses on ICT and migration, the Social Innovation Exchange, and was selected for Pioneers in 2009, a network of 40 social activists from New York City and Amsterdam.
Corline studied History at the University of Amsterdam, her thesis focusing on Dutch female musicians of the early twentieth century. She started working at Walboomers record label during her studies, promoting new artists - which she continued to do after graduation. Apart from her love for music, social involvement is a recurring element in her life. In the course of her college days she was active for HappyChaos; now she volunteers for Cybersoek and contributes to WijZijnMedia (WeAreMedia) and Netsquared Netherlands.

Chris Sigaloff
Corline van Es
Kwela Hermanns

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