Edial Dekker

Current

Editor at Bright Magazine
Co-Founder, Co-Organizer at HackDeOverheid
Co-organizer at Music & Bits

Data Visualization Expert | freelancer at edial.nl
Founder at MapTheGap
Co-Organizer at BLOG08 | Conference
Editor at Spotlight effect

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Past

Freelance Web Advisor at Gemeente Utrecht
Co-organizer at Dutch Bloggies
Web Strategist at Studio JuX

Freelance Web-Editor at Gemeente Utrecht
Journalist at IDG
Barista at Barista Coffee Company

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Education

Universiteit van Amsterdam

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Connections

387 connections

Industry

Online Media

Edial Dekker’s Summary

I have a variety of passions including tech, surfing, blogging, helping others, creative thinking organizing stuffs, and things that involve creative thinking and disruptive technologies.

In 2009, I moved to Berlin to start an agency there. I am still blogging for several blogs including Bright.nl, SpotlightEffect.nl and TheNextWeb.com.

Edial Dekker’s Specialties:

Data visualization, blogging, information architecture & network visualizations.

Edial Dekker’s Experience

Editor

Bright Magazine

(Online Media industry)

June 2009 — Present (8 months)
Co-Founder, Co-Organizer

HackDeOverheid

(Online Media industry)

March 2009 — Present (11 months)

HackDeOverheid is an initiative to make governments more transparent. At HackDeOverheid, developers, designers and other mind likes come together to reshape government. During the bar-camp-style event participants collaborate, discuss and rapidly prototype applications with data that is offered by governments or scraped at the event itself.

HackDeOverheid is besides an event, also a platform that is growing very fast. Stay up-to-date at hackdeoverheid.nl.
Co-organizer

Music & Bits

(Music industry)

January 2009 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Co-organizer Music & Bits, an pre-event of The Next Web about the future of online music.
Data Visualization Expert | freelancer

edial.nl

(Design industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

The amount of data that has increased exponentially in the last few years, it requires new ways to approach the data collected. There are new ways to store information and better ways to visualize them. Data Visualization has a rich history and has played an important role in many developments in modern times. My lectures involve the Data Visualizations milestones of the past, the present and a glimpse of the future.
Founder

MapTheGap

(Media Production industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

MapTheGap is a mobile application that let's you record, retrieve and share your ideas through your mobile phone while also adding context to your ideas.
Co-Organizer

BLOG08 | Conference

(Online Media industry)

February 2008 — Present (2 years )

Blogging is no longer the domain of the geeky kid. With easy-to-use blog software, everybody can start their own publishing platform. Millions of people do so. Together these bloggers are changing the world, one post at a time. They are the rockstars of the web.

Join the band and attend the conference at the 24th of October in Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam.
Editor

Spotlight effect

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)

December 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Freelance Web Advisor

Gemeente Utrecht

(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

September 2008 — August 2009 (1 year )
Co-organizer

Dutch Bloggies

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

November 2008 — January 2009 (3 months)

Ernst-Jan Pfauth and me are are asked to organize the next Dutch Bloggies. Together with part of last year's governing board we are re-branding this event. Stay tuned for the end of March...
Web Strategist

Studio JuX

(Textiles industry)

January 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 9 months)

Helping out with things like, web exposure, online presence and eCommerce.
Freelance Web-Editor

Gemeente Utrecht

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)

May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

Working in project to make all the information on Utrecht.nl better and more accurate. We are also working on guidelines for the other (349) web-editors about publishing new content.
Journalist

IDG

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

May 2008 — June 2008 (2 months)

Webwereld
Barista

Barista Coffee Company

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Food & Beverages industry)

November 2007 — May 2008 (7 months)

Edial Dekker’s Education

Universiteit van Amsterdam

2004 — 2009

Additional Information

Edial Dekker’s Interests:

Data visualization, open data, innovation processes, new technology, start-ups, surfing, food, film, music and API's. And I'm sure there is a lot more.

Edial Dekker’s Groups:

Medialab Amsterdam, Your Neighbours, weekly guest in 'Mediaminds', selected as part of top 100 creative media talents by Virtueel Platform, part of a Nokia Rooftop 'Expert' session, involved with Deutsche Telekom brainstorm sessions as 'expert'