Rolf Kleef

Current

Co-founder & director at Nivocer BV
Strategy, development, facilitationat drostan.org (Self-employed)

Past

Consultant online campaigning at Greenpeace International
Consultant at AIDEnvironment
Information Architect at OneWorld

Network administration at Milieudefensie

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Education

Universiteit Twente

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Industry

Civic & Social Organization

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Rolf Kleef’s Summary

Currently mainly working on:
* WebEnq, an online survey tool for civil society (http://www.webenq.org) used for project impact assessment
* Mantis, adapting an issue tracker to a workflow tool for programme/project management
* NABUUR, making the global neighbour network more "web2.0": online volunteering for communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Mainly working with open source web software: online collaboration, content creation and content management, discussion tools, networking. Focus on conceptual design, architecture, and strategy.

Applying this mainly in civil society networks, aimed at communication, collaboration, discussion. Focus on empowerment, knowledge, learning, facilitation, communities of practice (CoP), and so on.
Reflecting and researching this from a more academic viewpoint as well. Focus on concepts, developing a methodology, social software, application.
See http://www.drostan.org for more info!

Rolf Kleef’s Specialties:

Bridging the gap between techies, and campaigners and organisational staff. Link a vision to a strategy. Connect across organisations and campaigns.

Rolf Kleef’s Experience

Co-founder & director

Nivocer BV

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2006 — Present (2 years 1 month)

We provide application development and services for monitoring and evaluation, "market research", and programme and project management for "civil society organisation in international cooperation". We're specialised in tailoring our tools to the specific conditions of such international networks: internet-based, easy to use, able to deal with challenges of power supply and connectivity, multiple levels of "ownership" and responsibilities.
Strategy, development, facilitation
drostan.org (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Civic & Social Organization industry)

1995 — Present (13 years)

Independent work in projects on online communication, internet, and web programming: training, support, design, ... Since Summer 2004 working fully independent, focusing on "online communication and collaboration", specialised in strategy, development and facilition.
Consultant online campaigning

Greenpeace International

(Non-Profit; Civic & Social Organization industry)

November 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 2 months)
Consultant

AIDEnvironment

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

1997 — 2004 (7 years)

Consultant in various fields of online collaboration:
- Internet tools to support partnerships and platforms
- Online policy-making, project management, campaign coordination
- Strategies and visions to mobilise and activate knowledge within organisations and networks
- Online communication and facilition
Information Architect

OneWorld

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

1999 — 2002 (3 years)

Start-up at NCDO of a Dutch web portal on human rights, environment and development, from initial market and needs analysis to business planning and coordination of technical implementation, and eventually joining the OneWorld International network as OneWorld Netherlands. Designed and implemented online discussion projects on the technical platform.
Network administration

Milieudefensie

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

1994 — 1999 (5 years)

Started as the only part-time system administrator, built up a 5-person IT department providing the ICT infrastructure, services, and helpdesk, with 2 Novell servers and approx. 80 PCs.

Rolf Kleef’s Education

Universiteit Twente

Ir (=MSc), Informatics (Computer Science), 1986 — 1993

Activities and Societies:

Faculty promotion committee, Inter-Actief student association

Additional Information

Rolf Kleef’s Websites:

Rolf Kleef’s Groups:

Web of Change, APC, SummerSource, Greenpeace, Nabuur, ACM

NetworkWeaver, areas of focus: Information and Communication Technology, Organizational Governance, Internet, Zhaba, What The Hack, NetSquared, eCampaigning Forum, Unalista, e-collaboration