Patrice Riemens

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Patrice Riemens (b. 1950) is geographer and currently the Fellow of the Waag Society in Amsterdam. He is a promoter of Open Knowledge and Free Software, and has been involved as a "FLOSSopher" (a 'philosopher' of the Free/Libre and Open Source Software movements) at the Asia Source and Africa Source camps, held in 2005 and 2006 to promote FLOSS among non-governmental organisations.

Riemens lives has been described as a "private intellectual (and sometimes internet activist) by choosing". De Waag Center for Old and New Media, where he is based, is in an old castle in Amsterdam and works on the cutting edge of technology, culture, education and industry.

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