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The web plays an important role in our daily lives. It started as an idealist place for a few tech savvy scientists, and now, 30 years later it is a completely different place. Since we have to spend so much time here we think it is a good idea to ask the question: What is the web that you want?

The event is free to attend for everybody, but please do register below, so we can make sure we have enough chairs and enough bites and drinks.

In this first event we invited these people to try to explain to us what web they want:

Marleen Stikker

Marleen Stikker is founder and executive director of Waag Futurelab. Waag Futurelab reinforces critical reflection on technology, develops technological and social design skills, and encourages social innovation. Marleen leads the trans-disciplinary team of designers, artists and scientists, utilising Public Research and Key Enabling Methodologies to empower people to participate in the collective design of open, fair and inclusive futures. Marleen founded 'De Digitale Stad' (The Digital City) in 1993, the first virtual community introducing free public access to the Internet in Amsterdam. Marleen Stikker strongly adheres to the Maker's Bill of Rights motto: 'If You Can't Open It, You Don't Own It'.

Marleen will talk about the idea that the web is broken, but that we can fix it.

Hidde de Vries

Hidde de Vries is a front-end + accessibility + tech ethics specialist. He works on web standards for the Dutch government, he quite often does public talks and he is part part of the W3C's AB.

Hidde hasn’t decided yet if he wants to talk about ethics, or about a sustainable web. Both perhaps?

Justus Sturkenboom

Justus Sturkenboom is a Philosophy/Computer Science Lecturer at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. He teaches, among others, in the #FDND Associate degree and the #denkerslab applied philosophy minor programme.

Justus is going to look at the individual words the, web, you, and want from different philosical angles.

More…

A few more sessions will be announced soon…

Side events

There will be short presentations of fantastic work by students, there will be an alternative text writing breakout room, and there might be lasers!