Share and Care

Professionally

I like to share knowledge and information. Technology and its innovations obviously play their important roles here, both professionally and personally. I really care to share.

Helping people is an important driver for me.

Professionally, I have always explicitly shared knowledge and information. When I started my carreer as an IT consultant at CMG, later merging with Logica and now know as CGI, documenting information was a prime key to succesful project delivery. Sharing knowledge with peers and translating it to interested others, feels like a second nature.

Personally

As it comes to charity and giving back to the community, the area I focus on is education. On a very basic level, I feel the need to prepare children for future endeavours. Disruptively changing environments, exponentially growing knowledge, privacy and security issues are fast approaching challenges for the very next generation.

Although small-scaled, yet aligned with my professional expertise, I decided to organize a school workshop, explaining privacy and security issues to 10-11-12 year old boys and girls. Sure, as simple as it is, they heared about the importance of properly choosing passwords. Yet, the classroom majority does not pratice what was once preached in other lectures.

To have an actual impact on their thinking, in the workshop that I call ‘Whackshop’, I show children some hacking and cracking. Other than merely theory, seeing firsthand how very fast their own passwords can be cracked, makes them actively aware of the importance of security.

Additionally, I provided the school of my children with hardware, donated by Aon (thank you!). On that hardware I installed VMware ESX server with various operating systems. By allowing children to login to all these systems they are able to discover more and broaden their horizons. Some of the oldest kids do some programming on Edubuntu systems. Great stuff!