Matthijs Pontier Email & Phone Number

Netherlands

Amsterdam Area

- Fractievoorzitter De Groenen in Waterschap Amstel Gooi en Vecht, i.s.m Piratenpartij- Kandidaat Tweede Kamer Piratenpartij - De Groenen

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Idea Synergy is a new social media platform company, built on 10 years of innovation in co-creation and trust building between citizens and governments by its nonprofit sister organisation Citizens Foundation, based in Iceland. The company focuses on co-creation using crowdsourcing, collaborative budgeting and other creative methods that harvest the collective intelligence and potential from employees, customers and partners. Idea Synergy provides a social media platform developed using advanced mobile and Artificial Intelligence technologies.Idea Synergy is a social enterprise with a mission to increase participation and rebuild trust in society. The company has a symbiotic relationship with the Citizens Foundation where Idea Synergy focuses on serving companies and political parties and the Citizens Foundation serves governments and other non-profit organisations. To support democratic innovation Idea Synergy donates 30% of its annual profits to the Citizens Foundation.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Our mission is to bring people together to debate and prioritize innovative ideas to improve their communities. Our main goal is to help citizens get their voices heard and to encourage citizens participation in governance. The Citizens Foundation was founded in the aftermath of the Iceland’s economic and trust collapse in 2008. Since then we’ve developed open source tools and methods to promote online, democratic debate and to increase citizens’ participation in their community in Iceland and worldwide. We help governments setup locally owned and operated digital democratic infrastructure.Citizens Foundation is a non-profit organisation based in Reykjavik, Iceland, since 2008. We were awarded for our efforts with Better Reykjavik in 2011, winning the European award in the e-Democracy Awards as well as several local awards in 2011 and 2012. In 2015 a forum of the mayors of the Nordic capitals awarded our Better Neighborhoods project in Reykjavík the Nordic Best Practice 2015 award. In 2016 Better Reykjavik was selected on the NT100 list of key social innovations.More info: https://citizens.is/

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

- Public speaking- Moderator- Publicist- Consultant- Campaigning

Amsterdam

Meer Democratie is een nieuwe beweging die alle Nederlanders meer zeggenschap wil geven in de politiek en de maatschappij. Wij zetten ons in voor een bloeiende democratie omdat dit rechtvaardiger, productiever en gewoon leuker is.We kiezen hierbij steeds voor één of enkele speerpunten, al naar gelang wij mogelijkheden en openingen zien. Nu en in de komende tijd hebben we drie speerpunten:- de voorbereiding van een referendum over CETA en TTIP, de twee 'vrijhandelsverdragen' die in werkelijkheid veel verder gaan dan vrijhandel en een frontale aanval op de democratie vormen- de campagne Stop de Vriendjespolitiek, een burgerinitiatief om ervoor te zorgen dat alle gekwalificeerde Nederlanders voor publieke functies in aanmerking kunnen komen, niet alleen leden van de gevestigde politieke partijen- de campagne Mijn Buurt, Ons Recht voor de invoering van buurtrechten voor initiatiefnemers van lokale maatschappelijke burgerinitiatievenMeer informatie: https://www.meerdemocratie.nl

Netherlands

CommunicationTreasurerMeer informatie: https://www.drugsbeleid.nl/

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

I represent the Piratenpartij in Waterschap Amstel, Gooi en Vecht as a result from a fruitful cooperation with de Groenen. 2015-2019 as duo / commission2019-2023 as AB / counselor

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

- Fractievoorzitter (AB-lid) Waterschap Amstel, Gooi & Vecht (March 2019 - Now)- Kandidaat Kamerlid Piratenpartij - De Groenen 2023Previously:- Lijsttrekker De Groenen Waterschap Amstel, Gooi & Vecht (2023)- Kandidaat #2 Piratenpartij Provinciale Staten Noord-Holland (2023)- Lijsttrekker De Groenen Basis Piraten Amsterdam en Amsterdam-Zuid (2022)- Lijsttrekker Piratenpartij (2021)- Lijstduwer (candidate #20) for the European Parliament (2019)- Chairman Pirate Party Amsterdam (June 2018 - 2022)- Candidate #2 National Elections (March 2017)- Duo Waterschap Amstel Gooi en Vecht (2015-2019)- Candidate #3 Noord-Holland / Waterschap Amstel Gooi en Vecht (March 2015)- Lead Candidate for the European Parliament (May 2014) https://www.linkedin.com/redir/general-malware-page?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2epiratenpartij%2enl%2FEP14%2Fkandidaten- Candidate #2 City Council Amsterdam (March 2014)- Candidate #1 Board Committee Amsterdam South (March 2014)https://www.linkedin.com/redir/general-malware-page?url=https%3A%2F%2Famsterdam%2epiratenpartij%2enl%2FPiratenpartij%2FGemeenteraadskandidatenAdditionally (during all campaigns):- Program committee- Communication- Social media team

De Piratenpartij staat voor een vrije democratie waarin alle kennis, kunst en cultuur die de mensheid heeft voortgebracht direct voor iedereen beschikbaar is. De coronacrisis laat zien hoe belangrijk het is om in vrijheid kennis te delen. Wanneer ontwikkelaars worden beloond met geld in plaats van een monopolie, kan de hele wereld daarvan profiteren, en komen nieuwe behandelmethoden en medicijnen direct terecht bij alle mensen die dat nodig hebben.De Piratenpartij wil investeren in goede publieke voorzieningen als zorg, wonen en onderwijs, zodat ieder kind gelijke kansen krijgt. Wij kiezen voor robuuste sociale zekerheid, die ervoor zorgt dat ook in crisistijd niemand in armoede hoeft te leven. Wij pakken marktmacht aan, zodat ook kleine ondernemers eerlijke kansen krijgen. Wij brengen broodnodige ICT-kennis de Tweede Kamer in, zodat ICT-fails zo snel mogelijk tot het verleden behoren. Wij investeren liever in testcapaciteit,​ bron- en contactonderzoek en voldoende zorgpersoneel,​ dan dat we burgerrechten en vrijheden inperken.Met SyRI en de toeslagenaffaire bleek hoe onschuldige mensen in een uit de hand gelopen fraudejacht met de rug tegen de muur werden gezet en in jarenlange ellende werden gestort. In een autoritaire samenleving wordt uitgegaan van controle en repressie. In een vrije democratie ga je uit van vrijheid en verantwoordelijkheid; van vertrouwen in mensen.De Piratenpartij gaat uit van vertrouwen in de mens, en van een gezond wantrouwen tegenover machtsconcentraties bij overheden en bedrijven. Wij richten de samenleving daarnaar in, met systemen die gericht zijn op vertrouwen in professionals en goede bedoelingen, in plaats van wantrouwen en controle.In een vrije informatiesamenleving maken we samen de verstandigste keuzes. Laat daarom 17 maart ook jouw stem horen, zodat deze niet te negeren valt!Matthijs Pontier, lijsttrekker Piratenpartij Nederland

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Published several articles in printed and online media. Mainly opinion. Topics of interest:-Democracy-Privacy-Futurology-Science-Robots-Basic Income-Drug Policy

Netherlands

Hired and Volunteered to give advice on several areas within my expertise. Among others:-Social Robotics-Health Communication-Social Media Use-Safety Policy-Drug Policy

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Belgium

Political StrategyCommunicationActivismHarm ReductionThe European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies. With lobby, actions and information we have strengthened our voice at the United Nations, the European Union and on the national and local level.After many years of lobbying inside the Brussels bureaucracy, Encod achieved a major victory in the European Parliament when the ‘Catania report’ was approved by a majority of MEP’s. Since 2006 Encod promotes the concept of Cannabis Social Clubs, which now legally operate in Spain and Belgium.

Amsterdam

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Employee Council VU University (Ondernemingsraad, OR) within ProVU fraction.- Active in commission Social Affairs and Communication- Manager Social Media accounts

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

SELEMCA (Services for Electro-mechanical Care Agencies) focuses on the user-centered design of services that connect creative technologies such as agents, robots, ambient, and virtual worlds (“care agencies”) to patients, care professionals, and volunteer care providers. We envision the study of product-service systems (PSSs) for matchmaking between patient and care deliverers, for helping patients with medical-financial form filling, to help patients do exercises, and for monitoring medicine intake. In using existing technologies, we will create intelligent software agents and mechatronic robots (which we coin “Caredroids”) that serve as coaches and care providers for people who seek care, search for care services, who are hospitalized or residents of care centers and nursing homes.At the SELEMCA project, we will use the computational models of perception, emotion elicitation, emotion regulation and affective decision making I developed during my PhD research for developing the Caredroids.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Virtual Agents for Human Communication - Emotion Regulation and Involvement-Distance Trade-Offs in Embodied Conversational Agents and RobotsThus far, conversational agents and social robots were mainly developed from a technical point of view; e.g., ELIZA (Weizenbaum, 1966). The underlying model was almost lay theory, showing that smiles express happiness and frowns sadness (cf. Breazeal, 2002). Yet, most agents and robots fail conversation-wise because they cannot apply the right emotional response to the right situation. In this interdisciplinary research project, we will apply theories and models from mediated interpersonal communication, human-computer interaction and media psychology to embodied conversational agents. In doing so, the agents will be capable of social interaction and human-like communication. Ideally, theory and simulation should be so good that in a Turing Test (Turing, 1964), people will not be able to tell the difference. If there are significant differences, the experiments will show where the used theories and models have to be improved.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Cognitive Science, Phd

Virtual Agents for Human Communication - Emotion Regulation and Involvement-Distance Trade-Offs in Embodied Conversational Agents.

M. Sc., Cognitive Science

Thesis: A computational model for emotion regulation

B. Sc., Cognitive Psychology

Study

B. Sc., Artificial Intelligence

Activities and Societies: SSRA Study