These are examples of projects funded by the Digital Pioneers Fund. For more information about these projects or a total overview of the projects (in Dutch) check digitalepioniers.nl.

Het Magneetfestival Internetplatform (2010, Republic round 18)

Website: www.magneetfestival.nl

The Magneetbar’s motto is: no spectators, only participators. This proven concept resulted in (offline) creative events where every visitor performs on stage. Along the same line of thought the Magneetfestival internetplatform will be a digital environment were festival lovers, creatives and sponsors can meet, share ideas and experiences and cooperate to realize a crowdsourced festival program. Artists cooperate with audience and vice versa. New collectives emerge and new projects and events are created. Shared passion and participation intensify the experience of the event. The platform facilitates an active community. As such a bottom-up program of a concrete event emerges.

Digitale Koelkast (2010, Republic round 18)

Website: www.digitalekoelkast.nl

The Digitale Koelkast (Digital Refrigerator) creates a digital link between the conscious consumer and the local food store. The focus lies on pure, fair and tasteful products (‘slow food’). The Digitale Koelkast offers a platform to the local shopkeeper to present his products. It also contains information on ‘slow food’-recipes and products. The content on the website comes from the online community, like Wikipedia. The goal is to grow a network around conscious cooking and eating. “Do you know were I can find great Goat’s cheese? Look at the Digitale Koelkast!” The Digitale Koelkast is developed by the Youth Food Movement.

[Werk] (2010, Republic round 18)

Website: www.literairwerk.nl

The project [werk] consists of an Internet community for writers and editors and a literary magazine published as e-book. The project focuses on unpublished Dutch literary stories, poems en literary comics. The editorial process is revolutionary: an online community of authors, editors and those interested in literary work performs it. As such it is a networked editorial environment, the process is crowd sourced. The best work that emerges from the process is published four times a year in the form of an e-book.

MIMAQ (2010, Republic round 18)

Website: www.mimaq.org

MIMAQ stands for Mobile Individual Measurements of Air Quality. Volunteers measure local environmental characteristics (eg air pollution) and give real-time data via mobile phone. The data are analyzed by a central website, assembled and presented in different ways. It can demonstrate both individual exposure and contamination. The presentation is displayed on a map (google maps) as well as on the mobile phone via Augmented Reality (Layar). The MIMAQ project builds on a pilot held in Copenhagen last December on occasion of the climate summit. Here, the values for NOx of a single sensor were set. MIMAQ will extend these measurements and will expand the analysis and collect user experiences in a pilot in Leiden. The project aims to apply the design for other local initiatives in means of manuals and software.

Kiwah (2010, Republic round 18)

Website: www.kiwah.org

Kiwah is a community of citizens, businesses and organizations that want a sustainable economy. They achieve this through jointly getting insight where sustainable products and services can be purchased, assessing and involving new people and businesses in the community. The community members together form a buyers consortium. They approach companies to develop/ sell (more) sustainable products/ services. Companies are tempted to give a bonus (in the form of loyalty points, the kiwah), enabling the company to get new (and more loyal) customers. Kiwah-points can be used as currency, creating a refuge for people and businesses in which sustainable purchasing power circulates.

Woberator (2010, Reset round 17)

Website: www.woberator.nl

The Woberator is an online cross media manual for the appliance of the Government Information act (Wet openbaarheid van bestuur: WOB). All government information about the execution of policy is in principle open for public. However, the government has often a passive stance with regard to the publication of such information. The WOB act can be used to get that information. The Woberator shows with short films, interviews, example letters, texts en links how to apply the WOB as a citizen. This results in more consciousness of its possibilities, a bigger chance for honoring, and at the same time requests with more quality.  These opportunities are especially important since governments are legally required to react fast on these kinds of requests. This leads to poor quality of the process. The Woberator might prevent that.

Virtual Street (2010, Reset round 17)

Website: www.devirtuelestraat.nl

The Virtual Street is an art project developed for the Street of Sculptures. Where this initiative focuses on art in physical space and is rooted in the Bijlmer district in Amsterdam (NL), the Virtual Street exposes art in cyber space and is accessible for visitors from around the world. The audience can participate by adding own visions, images and realities to the Virtual Street by using the Internet and Augmented Reality. A digital walk down The Virtual Street in the Bijlmer is possible on desktop, Iphone or Android through Layar. In this way, coinciding material and digital worlds will merge into one interactive experience.

*Openmargin (Reset, round 17)

Website: dialogue.openmargin.com

The margin is the white space around a text. Being blank, it invites readers to make an annotation from their personal perspective. When a digital book has an *openmargin, the margin is an open digital platform where readers of the same book exchange their viewpoints. This means readers can: highlight the words they love. Or contribute their viewpoint, by making an annotation. Or have a dialogue around these words with a diversity of people. The website openmargin.com is the central meeting place. It gives an overview of all the annotations and after the reader has finished reading, the dialogue begins here. *Openmargin is collaborating with the developers of eReaders to make the margin widespread.

OpenCarData (Reset, round 17)

Website: www.opencardata.com

OpenCarData collects, stores and disseminates Real-World OBD (On Board Diagnostics) auto data. OBD-II is a huge medical passport of our vehicle: a universal standard for inspection and diagnosis of vehicle data. OpenCarData Technology enables the end user to use this data. Mobile phone developments – iPhone & Android – allow accessible OBD-II data collection, the Internet is used to unlock the data. An example of a developed application is the Auto Emission Profile. This application enables the comparison between the actual usage of the car with the EU energy label of the car. Unlike the previously determined label, an emission profile is a dynamic representation of the actual measured CO2 emissions of the car. In this way the car use determines the emission profile: the driver is in control. With the OpenCarData technology the motorist has a consumer friendly way for a smart, more efficient and conscious use of a vehicle.

1 % club (2009, Open round 16)

website: www.1procentclub.nl

The 1% club provides a platform for people who are independently engaged with development cooperation. The 1% club introduces a ‘development cooperation 2.0’-model to crowdsource development cooperation. Projects, individuals and companies are facilitated to find each other online. The growing number of private initiatives are able to present their activities on the website. Members decide whether they want to donate 1% of their income, knowledge or time. They pick the project of their favour from the proposals or offer their specific knowledge. With the help of blogs, photo’s, movies and Google maps they keep informed about the activities of the particular project.

Ipoetry (2009, Open round 16)

Website: ipoetry.nl

Ipoetry wants to be a platform for young poets, it combines four websites of Stichting Poeziecircus (Foundation Poetry Circus); together they reach a big part of poetry-interested audience. The site consists a portal with general information such as an agenda of live-shows and a top 10, there is the platform for the national contest for Poetry Slam, a site with all poetry stages, and an audiomagazine with recordings of live poetry. The main goal of Ipoetry is to use new media for the general mission of Poeziecircus; to support poetry and young talented poets. The goal of the new audiomagazine is to make the archive of the organization publicly available for two main reasons: to share important Dutch cultural heritage and to emancipate Poetry culture and bring it into the youth culture of the 21st century. Creative Commons licensing is used for the presented work and using material from the website is stimulated.

FreeJ Vision Mixer (2009, Open round 16)

website: freej.dyne.org

Videos are offered under an open license, with the intention that everybody can use and adapt them. Moreover, Freej Vision Mixer is a program with which videos can be manipulated in real time. FreeJ Vision Mixer provides users and producers with tools for online, on-site and mobile TV productions and broadcasts. It is an efficient javascript-based virtual machine for applications that implies the use of video and interaction by users. A development platform for veejaying applications, which does not solely offer standard interaction-patterns, but is easily adaptable and provides for possibilities to create new products, formats and VJ interfaces. A platform for integrating graphical interfaces on existing platforms. A 100 % open-source alternative for Flash on the web. All in all, FreeJ is a advanced VeeJay program developed by dyne.org.

IAM Open Coursware (2009, Open round 16)

Website: ocw.medialab.hva.nl

The goal of I Am Open Courseware is to collect education material on new media and make it publicly available. The project is initiated by the Institute of Network Cultures, MediaLAB Amsterdam and the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Interactieve Media (IAM) is based on a similar project of MIT Open Course Ware. The ambition is to disclose as much material as possible by publishing it online. The open Creative Commons license make it possible for anyone to use it, copy it, distribute it, translate it or change it. The material might consist presentations, video’s, podcasts, syllabus, weblectures, assignments, streams, publications etc. IAM wants to put a local and national example by making material publicly available.

Innof (2009, Open round 16)

Website: www.innof.nl

Innof focuses on sustainable entrepreneurship. It offers an independent news- and knowledge portal to increase the knowledge about sustainability. In this context sustainability is considered the balance between the social (people), the ecological (planet) and the economic (profit). It includes all technical, economical, ecological and social developments and innovations that add to a more efficient and careful world. Specific themes are social responsible entrepreneurship, production processes and products, energy, construction and mobility.

Open Street Photo (2009, Open round 16)

Website: openstreetphoto.org

The goal of the Open Street Photo project is to make air photography accessible under a Creative Commons license. GPS controlled ‘drones’ flying on a 100m-height produce the photos. If this activity can be made profitable, cars can make geo-annotated 3D views of streets. Services will be offered to municipalities. The content will be offered under CC-BY. The community can make use of the pictures under a BY-SA license.

Platform medische fouten (2009, Open round 16)

Website: www.eerstehulpbijmedischefouten.nl

The platform for medical errors wants to offer an interactive platform for people who became the victim of medical errors. The main goal is to offer free and accessible legal advice. Complex health law is explained clearly in an accessible roadmap. This roadmap provides the citizen with help to decide whether or not to start a legal procedure. Moreover, citizens can give input and discuss related issues online.

Ik herinner mij weer (2009 Identity round 15)

Website: http://ikherinner.nl/

“Ik herinner mij weer” (I remember) is a new interactive application that aims to stimulate the memory of people who have dementia with custom incentives and a personal life book to preserve their identity longer. The app is based on theoretical substantiated therapeutic means that showed added value in the practice of healthcare institutions: the Life Book and Reality Orientation Training (ROT). When using the app, the supply and demand relationship between healtcare professional, volunteer and client is found.

Love your perfect Opposite (2009, Identity round 15)

Website: www.lypo.org

“Love your perfect Opposite” (LYPO) is a ‘nomadic application’ for young people with the purpose not only to collect as many friends as possible, but also to debate as many ‘opposites’ as possible. The idea resulted from the Couscous & Cola series broadcast worldwide on Al Jazeera in 2007, which got many reactions from especially multiple identity kids from different countries. The gadget will be available on a huge amount of Open Social containers like Hyves etc. and allows to embed movies from Youtube and also to directly record a reaction. We experienced that you learn most about others, but even more about yourself by talking to those who least resemble you, specifically in terms of opinion. Purpose of LYPO is to connect kids with multiple identities here in Holland with kids with multiple identities in other countries.

Narb: People Filtered Art (2009, Identity round 15)

Website: narb.me

Narb is an online tool that can be defined as ‘discover, discuss and collect art online’; a website with social functionalities. Visitors can filter and discuss the up-to-date offer of expositions. Users can make their personal virtual collection as well. Part of the project is an Iphone application that makes direct interactions possible in a gallery or museum. People can make photos of an artwork and put it online immediately and see what others think of it. However, Narb is not just for visitors, it is for institutions as well. Cultural institutions can use the specially build API to publish or re-use Narb’s data. With the API physical interactive installations can be made. Tools such as this provide curators with whole new possibilities with regard to the interaction with the audience in cultural institutions.

Retyping Dante (2009, Identity round 15)

Website: http://www.retypingdante.com

Retyping Dante is a media artwork on Internet culture and cultural developments on Web 2.0. This work lets hundreds of people behind hundreds of computers with thousands fingers touch their keyboards. The letters these fingers touch enter the Dante server and with those letters the Divine Comedy of Dante is being transcribed. We tell this story on our website. With this project we want to make a statement on the current developments on the Internet and the way culture is created on it. In our opinion Web 2.0 is essentially not about creating cultural products, but about the action that achieves these products.

ikregeer.nl (2009, Eparticipation round)

Website: ikregeer.nl and api.ikregeer.nl

Ikregeer.nl opens official publications of the government in a user friendly way. All Kamerstukken; parliamentary questions and operations of the Senate and House since 1995, are findable on a simple way. Supported by the eParticipatie round these publications including metadata are now also available as a public open Application Programming Interface (API). Other web sites or Internet applications will also gain access to the data of Ikregeer.nl and can combine them with other dates such as new websites, widgets and mobile applications. Thanks to the public open API, sites and Internet applications can publish governmental information more easily and more citizens can participate in the political process.

Open kamer (2009, Eparticipation round)

Website: openkamer.tv

Open Kamer aims for disclosure of debates in the Dutch parliament by streaming video images. On their website the organization enriches the debates with extra information and makes them easier to trace. Every debate has a textual display and is visible by video images. The video images are converted to H.264 (an open-source MPEG-4 format) in order to play the video on different platforms and are still viewable in the future. Open Kamer enables viewers to leave a personal response via permalinks. In this way users can directly refer to judgments by email or via websites of third parties.

Alane Newsreader (2008, Use your Talent round 14)

Website: alanenewsreader.nl

Language technology like the Alane newsreader helps to make learning more effective for people that learn Dutch as their second language. With this online application, students learn new vocabulary by reading today’s news. The software combines resources on the Internet, like RSS-feeds of online newspapers and online translationservices of Google (Google Translate). It selects texts that are comprehensible, and at the same time provide enough opportunities for learning new vocabulary. In this way it is possible to select articles that fit with a students (second) language proficiency, interests and learning goals. Development of free use of the Alane newsreader for example in the public library of Amsterdam has been able with help of Digital Pioneers fund. Watch a short introduction video of the Alane newsreader (in Dutch).

Mimoa (2007, International round 12)

Website: mimoa.eu

On internet a lot of information about contemporary architecture can be found. But when ready to visit, to experience the projects and see them in real life, the necessary addresses are mostly can not be found. MIMOA (My Modern Architecture) shows this architecture projects with address and interactive map, a print-on-demand guide (Miguide) is also added. With funding of Digital Pioneers MIMOA is able to built up an online database of contemporary architecture in Europe, which will be filled by architects, expert centers and enthusiastic visitors.

150 Volksvertegenwoordigers (2006, Freedom of Speech round 9)

Website: 150volksvertegenwoordigers.nl

Most of the 150 representatives of the Dutch parliament are totally unknown for voters. When asked people can recall the leaders of public parties and some others…but that is about it. The representatives do have their own website or profile on the website of the Dutch government, but there won’t be searched for when their name is unknown. On the webiste 150volksvertegenwoordigers.nl all representatives are listed with personal features (for example: religion, favorite soccerteam) and political facts (for example: voting attitude). Unique about this page is the fact that it is not focused on electiontime but gives background information about the representatives during their membership of the parliament.

Simuze (2006, Science round 7)

Website: simuze.nl

Simuze is founded out of discontent about the way media and the music industry treat the music, musicians and the music listener. It is an open content music community where musicians and music lovers can meet and exchange or edit music. With the funding of Digital Pioneers an online community is build where members have the possibility to upload music with a Creative Commons license. This license makes the music available for all other members of the community. They also have access to a news section with an archive, RSS-feed, comments and a CMS. This exchange of information made musicians aware of the impact and possibilities of Creative Commons on copyright.

Geluidsnet (2004, Sustainability round 4)

Website: geluidsnet.nl

Regularly media report about the discussion between airport Schiphol and inhabitants of the area about the noise of airplanes. The foundation Geluidsnet was raised because they missed an objective measurement of the noise in this discussion. Development and installation of 25 measurement spots in the inhabited Schiphol area make this possible. The noise is recorded by certificated microphones and is supported by RuG freq-analyse software. On the website Geluidsnet.nl these measurements are visualized. Via a map up-to-date information about the noise in a selected area is shown. Other municipalities, the national government and European initiatives have shown their interested in the method.

Petities.nl (2004, Sustainability round 4)

Website: petities.nl

Since the 1th of June 2005 the foundation Petities Online makes it possible for every citizen to bring attention to a large public by starting a petition. It stimulates democracy, makes people less dependent of media and the awareness of politicians. Basic principle is to make petitions a serious option for agenda setting. To prevent for nonsense people pay a small fee to start a petition and the initiator will also operate as moderator. And to avoid SPAM every person can be invited just once by a friend.

Maroc.nl (2009, Identity round 2)

Website: Maroc.nl

Maroc.nl was the first digital platform for young immigrants. The main goal of this non-profit organization is to build up and maintain a platform for immigrants in Dutch society. With thousands of visitors per day they contribute to the stimulation of information supply, communication and integration of this group. Maroc.nl added two voice functionalities to their website: a voice chat application and a voice board. In this way spoken and written text can be merged. This makes the website more exciting and the community more accessible and closer.

Ouders online (2004, Living Together round 1)

Website: oudersonline.nl

The popular site for parents Ouders Online gives independent information about raising children and parenthood. With 180.000 page views per month en hundreds of new requests per week they were in need of reliable support. They have build a web application that automatically answers questions of visitors resourced out of a database. All questions and given answers that were given in the past are coded. This information added with the expertise of field specialists is the basis of the database that is now available for usage.

Splitscreen (2004, Living Together round 1)

Website: netuni.nl

Spitscreen developed a tool to deepen an online discussion and show the common ground from which a solution to a conflict could be found. The project focuses primarily on young people living in the Netherlands which are clearly involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By mapping the disagreements and arguments in an unusual and fascinating way. In five different web sessions the discussion molded into useful building blocks for a new dialogue. All discussions where moderated and varied in form and presentation.

Nieuwsflits (2004, Living Together round 1)

Website: www.persmuseum.nl

The Press Museum is the national repository for the journalistic heritage, one of their key objectives is media education. The Press Museum wants children aged 9-12 years to understand the meaning of news. With Nieuwsflits! the museum created an online learning tool which gives the children the possibility to learn to read and understand the way information gets in the press. Hereby  children learn in a fun and creative way what news is and how news is made. With the contribution of Digital Pioneers the digital do-it-yourself paper is developed. The work of children is automatically copyrighted with a Creative Commons license.

Shespot (2004, Living Together round 1)

Website: shespot.nl

The website of Shespot enables women to express their erotic female experiences. This is the spot on the internet, where women can share their erotic stories, discuss the connection between erotica and relationships and the possibility to make a match. Also they selected 100 movies that are especially exiting for the targetgroup, including ‘woman-friendly porn’.

Kiezers voor Kiezers (2004, Living Together round 1)

The Internet is an increasingly important tool for voters to get bearings on political parties. In preparation for the Lower House elections of 2002, the website www.kiezersvoorkiezers.nl was launched with the contribution of Digital Pioneers. During the campaign of the elections voters had the opportunity to give feedback on media statements. Using a software platform (Sgreat) they were able to gain knowledge and share, manage and organize their opinions. In a period of 4 weeks the website had 450 members, together they gave up to 1300 ratings. The website is now offline.

Politiek Digitaal (2004, Living Together round 1)

Website: politiek-digitaal.nl

Politiek Digitaal aimed to discover and disclose the democratic potential of new media on behalf of the information supply of the European society. For years the website was a place for discussions and publications about topics such as the tension between justice and security, or law and ICT, the developments of e-government, the significance of open source and free software. With the contribution of Digital Pioneers Politiek Digitaal has developed tools that make the site more interactive and up to date. The success of the website was enormous during the elections of 2002 and 2003. With 20,000 unique visitors a month they became after Kieswijzer.nl (a voting tool) the most visited political website. The website is now mainly an archive of interviews and articles that have been written by Politiek Digitaal in the past.

Ook Jij (2004, Living Together round 1)

Website: stichtingookjij.nl

In practice, mentally disabled young people often are in ward of their parents, making them lose their voting rights. This is a thorn in the side of the initiators of Ookjij.nl. The foundation aims to give these youngsters – who often can not read – the opportunity to get information, make contact with others and also to have fun. With the contribution of Digital Pioneers the foundation Ookjij.nl put up a website with an interactive tool that can learn mentally disabled about politics and civics and how to play a role in this; a way to emancipate and integrate into society.

Muziek en Zorg (2004, Living Together round 1)

Website: muziekenzorg.nl

The foundation ‘Gezondheidszorg voor Musici’ (Healthcare for Musicians) noticed that musicians have a need for information about injuries and prevention methods that are specific for their professional branch. They put up a network where health professionals and musicians can interact about these health topics through a website. The website enables musicians to search in a data bank on different categories: musical instrument, limb, type of injury, treating method or region. Hereby they get informed with general information about the injury, the way to prevent it, literature and research results. Medical practitioners and therapists with specific knowledge and experience about injuries in this branch can be asked to give an additional advise.