Michiel Leenaars
Michiel Leenaars is Director of Strategy at NLnet Foundation. and director of Internet Society Netherlands, one of the more sizable Internet Society chapters in the world. He is also a W3C liason officer for the Benelux Office of the World Wide Web Consortium.
Michiel Leenaars is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as OpenDoc Society (vice-chair), SIDN Fund (Board of Advisors), Accessibility.nl (Board of Supervisors), Digitale Infrastructuur Nederland, and Petities.nl foundation (treasurer). He is a member of the Netherlands committee for the UNESCO Information for All Programma and the chairperson of The Commons Conservancy. He is currently heading a study for the European Commission on the Next Generation Internet initiative. He is a member of the Netherlands national Education Council. The "Onderwijsraad" (established in 1919) is the formal Netherlands governmental advisory body to advise the Minister, Parliament and local authorities on education policy.
Links
- NLnet Foundation
- Internet Society Netherlands
- The Commons Conservancy
- SIDN Fund
- OpenDoc Society
- Petities.nl
- Onderwijsraad
- UNESCO Netherlands
- NGI Initiative
Events
Title | Day | Room | Track | Start | End |
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Next Generation Internet Initiative An opportunity to fix the internet |
Saturday | Janson | Keynotes | 11:00 | 11:50 |