" Born in 1950, Patrice Riemens is a 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. He is a member of the staff of Multitudes.

Riemens’ has been described as a "private intellectual (and sometimes internet activist) by choosing" [1]. 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. " (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Riemens
http://multitudes.samizdat.net/Some-thoughts-on-the-idea-of