Patrice Riemens

Patrice Riemens (born 1950) is a geographer and currently the Fellow of the Waag Society in Amsterdam. He is a promoter of Open Knowledge and Free Software, and has been involved as a "FLOSSopher" (a 'philosopher' of the Free/Libre and Open Source Software movements) at the Asia Source and Africa Source camps, held in 2005 and 2006 to promote FLOSS among non-governmental organisations. He is a member of the staff of Multitudes.

Riemens' has been described as a "private intellectual (and sometimes internet activist) by choosing".[1] De Waag Center for Old and New Media where he is based, in De Waag, a 15th-century building in Amsterdam and works on the cutting edge of technology, culture, education and industry.

References

  1. "Patrice Riemens bio".


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