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"title": "Yannick schandené",
"text": " Yannick is a Brussels-based food entrepreneur and activist. He founded and runs Fermentthings, a meeting place for lovers of fermentation. Settled in the North-east of Brussels, we gave ourselves the mission to create a space where you can learn, taste, smell and do anything related to fermentation.",
"image": "https://thestoriesbeyond.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/yannick.png"
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"title": "Nadia EL-Imam",
"text": "An Engineer and designer from Sweden, with roots in Europe, Africa and Asia. She specialises in building platforms for citizen engagement and distributed collaboration. Born in Sweden to African parents, raised in Europe and Asia. Nadia leads strategic development for Edgeryders Environment and Climate unit.",
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"title": "Corinne Cath-Speth",
"text": "Corinne Cath-Speth is a PhD student at the Oxford Internet Institute and Alan Turing Institute for AI. She is a cultural anthropologist studying Internet governance culture. Her PhD presents an ethnographic case study of human rights NGOs working in Internet governance organizations. She is interested in the Internet companies most people have never heard of but use every day and the human rights organizations targetting them to develop “human rights-respecting” computer code. Her other research interests include AI governance, digital activism and the politics of emoji design.",
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"title": "Andreja Lepen",
"text": "Andreja is EarthOS, Edgeryders’ Climate Unit coordinator, project manager and Be.Funded owner. A political scientist by education with a Master in Public Relations and Political Communication. With more than 7 years of experience in the field of the EU policies and EU funding she has developed strong expertise in policy analysis, project management, stakeholder relations and communication. As a unit coordinator she is involved in different work from project management, communication to event management.",
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"title": "Marina Batinic",
"text": "Research coordinator and project manager, specialized in cultural and arts management, education, and heritage with the M.A. degrees from Croatian, French and Spanish Universities. Experienced in European projects and international cooperation. Co-founder of the Culture Hub Croatia which aims to strengthen the local cultural and creative sector and foster cross-sectorial innovation through participatory projects and community building initiatives.",
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"title": "Maria Euler",
"text": "Interdisciplinary artist and design researcher as well as a community manager for edgeryders with a background in physics, fine art and a Master in Information Experience Design from the Royal Collge of Art. She searches for points of connection and entry, between disciplines, complex scientific concepts, discussion, emotional and tangible experiences and people. She pursues research studies and art-science collaborations as for example with the Bristol Laboratory for Quantum Computing and exhibited interactive installations at venues and festivals across Europe such as Sonar+D, I-Gem and VrSci. Currently, she is also involved in the PLATO project. Her goal is to enable different approaches and connections to increase the diversity and creativity of the discourse on art, science and technology. You can see some of her works here: http://mariaeuler.com/",
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"title": "Zmorda Djedidi",
"text": "Data scientist, with previous experiences in the supply chain management field, during the past ten years, Zmorda developed a real interest in social entrepreneurship. She started contributing as a marketing manager with the Enactus team at her engineering school. As a participant of the Mobnet exchange program, she conducted a study to evaluate the profitability of the social innovation hubs and co-working spaces based in Europe and North Africa by exploring their income-generating activities. Moreover, she contributed to designing ideation, incubation programs, and events with local NGOs in Tunisia and within the Edgeryders community. Furthermore, she held the position of social innovation advisor of the social incubator program for Women Charek’ in Tunis. She is also the co-founder and operations manager of OCI Lab, the first online peer to peer incubator in MENA.",
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{
"title": "Matteo Uguzzoni",
"text": "An architect and a game designer. His practice focus on creating transformative experience blending real life game and theater based in Baltimore, US. He designed project that spans from a chase zombie night experience until the global roadshow presentation of world leading brands. Passing through pervasive games, e-learning, immersive experience, pitch workshops and products to improve our way to live and work. Co-Founder of Livello7 and Urban Games Factory. Project Manager of the Nomadic branch of Trust in Play - the European School of Urban Game Design. Host of “the Playcast” a podcast about urban games, immersive experience and everything in between. http://www.urbangames-factory.it/it/games/, http://trustinplay.eu/ , theplaycast.co",
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"title": "Matthias Ansorg",
"text": "Matthias is a computer scientist and technology generalist with a long experience in open source software and hardware development. A social innovator and digital entrepreneur who has studied alternative value measurement and non-monetary economic exchange mechanisms extensively for his award-winning commons funding platform PayCoupons (former Makerfox). Solid expertise in software development, integration and maintenance; has built the edgeryders.eu online platform.",
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{
"title": "Hugi Asgeirsson",
"text": "Co-creator of participatory events. Coder of tools for creative communities. Art lover. Occasional nature-dweller Data-devouring analyst. Graph-enthusiast. And I like to make decentralised communities tick and tock. Born in Iceland, raised in Sweden, lived in China. Based in Stockholm.",
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{
"title": "Amelia Hassoun",
"text": "An anthropologist with a research focus on the social impacts of digital technologies. Has extensive ethnographic research experience both online and offline, in both public and private sector, focusing on the power of participatory communities to facilitate transparent, efficient solutions to public problems. Has technical experience designing and developing a bespoke patient information website, as well as interviewing community members, gathering and analysing qualitative and quantitative data, and generating ethnographic reports. Currently a doctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute analysing community-based civic technology initiatives, ethnographically examining how community members creatively interact with and rework “smart” urban technologies.",
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"title": "John Coate",
"text": "John was employee number two at The WELL, where he was instrumental in creating the online community that Wired Magazine called the “world’s most influential”. There he was the first to work as what is now known as an “online community manager” and he wrote the first treatise on building online community. He co-founded the first major news website, sfgate.com, which today has more than thirty million monthly visitors and more than 476K Twitter followers. He was the online manager of a teen social network and game site that had thousands of members. He managed a regional media organisation that combined terrestrial radio and the internet in innovative ways. Through it all the core of his community knowledge comes from direct personal experience living and working with others who are consciously building lasting relationships as the building blocks of community.",
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{
"title": "Peter Bihr",
"text": "Peter explores how emerging technologies can have a positive social impact. At the core of his work is the mission to align emerging technologies and citizen empowerment.",
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{
"title": "Alberto Cottica",
"text": "I am an expert on collaborative governance and participation, with proven track record of managing processes of ICT-enabled design and delivery of public policy – and even public services – in collaboration with citizens.",
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{
"title": "Noemi Salantiu",
"text": "Digital storyteller, expert online collaborator and a co-founder of Edgeryders. In the past eight years she has shaped Edgeryders into a sustainable community organisation where all projects actively involve members and focus on fulfilling their aspirations for personal and professional development. Most edgeryders community events have her print as a soft people organiser aka cat herding. She has worked for innovation in Culture, Development, Social & Civic activism, trying to infuse community and participation in the cities agendas, and building bridges. The Culture Squad is where she wants to do more production work and less consultancy.",
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"title": "Daniel Hires",
"text": "Daniel is a TCK born in Korea and raised between Germany and the US. He spent 8 years building and growing the social innovation ecosystem in Berlin and Germany. He co-founded MakeSense in Berlin, a global community that engages citizens in social innovation, facilitated and trained facilitators of design thinking workshops, and works with impact startups as coach, trainer, and mentor. He also founded the Silent Climate Parade Berlin, a silent disco parade as an artivist demonstration for a sustainable future and has spoken about community activism at TEDx. More recently, he helped UN Environment on building community and rethinking their green startup incubation program across 8 MENA countries from Lebanon to Morocco. Read more on his website.",
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{
"title": "Giovanni Calia",
"text": "Born in '82, has lived in 11 cities of 4 nations in 16 years cultivating a long experience in Marketing and Media. After a long period abroad decides to return to his own city, Matera, to be close to the his family and his beloved niece. He loves the crimping of crickets and cicadas, the infinite skies of southern Italy and the tales of the southern elders.",
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{
"title": "Kaja Farszky",
"text": "Professional musician working in the international field of contemporary music. Born in Croatia, has been educated in Zagreb, Barcelona and Ghent, and based in Brussels since 2016. Funding member and co-artistic director of the collective Down the Rabbit Hole in Belgium since 2017. Among being a professional musician, she is interested in production work and keeps expanding her skills along side of playing music. She joined Edgeryders in winter 2019 as administrative assistant. For more info of her work visit www.kajafarszky.com",
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"title": "Volha Martynenka",
"text": "MFA, born in Minsk, Belarus. Connection to local communities and social activism have always been important to me while growing up in the post-Soviet country. People there are used to mistrust the authorities and to rely on mutual support. I have a background in journalism, social activism, and art. I was studying media art at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and participated in numerous multidisciplinary exhibitions and festivals, used to teach video art in Minsk. I am good at learning languages and able to speak Polish, Russian, Belarusian, German, and English fluently. In 2018-2019 I took part in the Lane Kirkland Scholarship program at the University of Wroclaw. Currently, I work in tech as a project manager.",
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{
"title": "Katja Bego",
"text": "Katja Bego is a Principal Researcher and data scientist in Nesta’s technology futures and explorations team. She leads the European Commission-funded NGI Forward project, tasked with helping shape the funding and research agenda of the Next Generation Internet initiative.",
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{
"title": "Owen Gothill",
"text": "Developer for front end applications based in Brussels, working on functionality and user interfaces that extend our connection with members and collaborators on the platform, as well as new opportunities to bind our community and strengthen our common goals.",
"image": "https://edgeryders.eu/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0180c468cdfb6932f5bbe1fe8051fd3e15593fd4.jpeg"
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{
"title": "Frank Boons",
"text": "Director of the Sustainable Consumption Institute & Professor of Innovation and Sustainability, University of Manchester. Since April 2019 he is also Senior Academic Fellow for Resources and Waste in Defra’s Systems Research Programme. He is interested in understanding and facilitating processes of transition towards more sustainable provision for key human needs, covering topics such as the circular economy, net-zero economy, and the way in which the changing boundary between production and consumption affects just and sustainable provision. He has published widely on these topics, and is associate editor of the Journal of Industrial Ecology.",
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{
"title": "Asli Telli",
"text": "Asli is a member of Academics for Peace Network and focuses on digital media facilitated activism, resistance, advocacy and transversal action of displaced commons. She taught and performed field research in Turkey, Switzerland, Malta, France, the US and lately in Germany, The latest projects she contributes to are “Digital Transversal Action of Euro-Migrants against Right Populisms” (www.mobilesolidarity.com) and “Mapping Academic Freedoms” (www.mappingfunds.com). Lately, she reflects with her colleagues on implications of protracted displacements, perish of critical knowledge and inequalities.",
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