Drafting codrin.org
I drafted this personal page as a simple home for gathering support while I research and start practical social projects.
Building practical social entrepreneurship projects for future generations.
I have always been drawn to social progress. Earlier in my career, that meant teaching social/sustainable entrepreneurship and working for the BiomimicryNL foundation.
When I wanted to start my family, I returned to IT, working across ‘Intelligence Solutions’ in the broadest sense; enabling vision to implementation. From Business Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence; realising data infrastructures (cloud and on-premise), data engineering, data analytics, data science and (gen)AI solutions. From guiding stakeholders to refine their use cases to coaching and working alongside developers.
When we learned we were expecting our second child, that older question came back with new urgency: what am I building, and what kind of world am I helping leave behind?
Inspired by the School for Moral Ambition, Rutger Bregman’s work, and conversations with dear people around me, I am making space again for practical projects that serve the public interest in the hope to make a contribution for the better.
Explore the social projects, support my work, or contact me if this direction resonates.
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Social Projects
Attention Machine
draftedAttention Machine is a public-interest, non-commercial, evidence-based project about how digital platforms are engineered to keep us engaged. It explains the technology behind the attention economy, documents social harms, and points toward practical individual and structural responses.
Intelligence for Influence
draftedIntelligence for Influence explores how collective intelligence, open data, semantic web technology, and AI can help changemakers find relevant causes, collaborators, resources, and strategic insights. The project aims to connect fragmented knowledge into shared maps and tools for social progress.
Not-for-profit Financial Services
researchingAn early research project exploring whether foundation-owned, not-for-profit financial services could reduce extractive incentives in banking and redirect value toward customers, resilience, mission, and replication. The current work is a critical review of assumptions around governance, licensing, capital, compliance, AI-native operations, and whether a Dutch model could become a trustworthy template for fair financial institutions elsewhere in Europe.
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Support my work
I aim to develop these projects as self-sustaining entities. Personal support helps me create the time and space to get them started, until projects that prove worthwhile can support themselves through their own structures, foundations, or dedicated funding.
Contact
For collaborations or project support, contact hello@codrin.org.