Amanda Jansen

Glocal connector, government changemaker, collaborative economy strategist enabling sharing experiences

After 12 years of government expertise in the social domain as a public professonal and consultant, now focussing on social innovation through new participation initiatives and new economical development, creating sharing cities. Cities that share responsibility as well as assets and resources.

Sharing cities are not complex. Anyone can start sharing, creating a share fest or use sharing as a different way of dealing with complex societal, entrepreneurial or policy issues. I help city councils, social services, charities and citizen experts to create more focus on positive change in times of economical decline. Together with citizen experts.

Coordinator Urban Commons Transition Netherlands

In the international research project FLOK Society policypapers are being made for a peer to peer focussed society with knowledge commons as a vehicle for better care, environment, education etc. Knowledge commons are groups of people specialized in making, distributing, creating or consuming something in open source ways. By unlocking knowledge radically better solutions can be found for cities.

Connector OuiShare Netherlands

Connector Netherlands & The Hague since 2013, creating a more collaborative society: OuiShare and Meetup

Part of the Sharing Cities Track at www.ouisharefest.com 2014

Organiser OuiShare Drinks together with www.conceptors.nl

Co-organiser OuiShare Fest satellite event The Hague 2014 with onthevolcano.blogspot.com

The New Government

Co-founder bloggroup & expertisecenter on renewing government: www.denieuweoverheid.nl