Jan Goossenaerts

Jan Goossenaerts is a social media entrepreneur and a business and architecture consultant specialized in aligning information and communications solutions to organizational and societal needs. In 2012 he founded Wikinetix which became a finalist in the 2012 Social Media Leadership Awards. In order to catalyse further the instructive and productive use of the internet he launched the Actor Atlas and a number of related social capital wikis: one for the Philippines, Tanzania, Nepal, India, the EU and the US. Jan has edited several books on information infrastructure in manufacturing systems and published in a number of journals including Computers in Industry, Information & Management, Production Planning and Control and International Journal of e-Collaboration. In 2013 he co-edited a book on Foreign Aid and the making of Democracy in Nepal . In 2018 he wrote the #tagcoding handbook. Both books are published via Leanpub. Jan has elaborate profiles on Google+ and LinkedIn, and a list of publications on Google Scholar and Citeulike.