About

My name is Christian Kreutz and I am a political scientist and knowledge activist. I work as a consultant for knowledge management and information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D). The places I have worked for include the German Parliament and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ- German Technical Cooperation). At GTZ I worked for five years as project manager and communication specialist. Since 2000 I work on various projects around the Internet. My interests are knowledge sharing, activism and networks for social change.

List of clients:

Here are some examples of the work I have done:

Presentations/Interviews/Publications

Editor of a GTZ publication: The participatory web – new potentials for ICT in rural areas
Article in the German magazine Internationale Politik “The idea network – Das Netz der Ideen” about the collaborative web and the future of development aid.
Coordinator and author for the bilingual web2fordev blog
Panelist at the web2fordev conference in Rome 2007: Web 2.0 for Rural Development and Community Empowerment, Opportunities and Barriers
Interview for Deutsche Welle about web2.0 and development aid “Entwicklungshilfe 2.0“.
Interview by German radio station “Deutschland Radio Kultur” about Social Webs in Africa. (2007/07)
Presentation at re-publica conference April 2007 about social software in development cooperation (podcast).
Presentation at the Eschborn Dialogue 2006 (GTZ) about the Summer School – a knowledge network.

Awards

2006 – 1st place. Innovation Award GTZ, creation and implementation of a knowledge sharing application.
2003 – 1st place out of 553. Conceptualization and implementation of the website for Ekin Deligöz (Member of the German Parliament). Full list of the member of parliament website ranking (pdf) www.ekin.de
2003 – 3rd place. Conceptualization and implementation of a website, for a Member of the European Parliament. www.heide-ruehle.de

Publication: “Protest networks — a new dimension of transnational civil society” (2003-Author)
The book analyzes the growing networking of civil society over borders and how they form loose coalitions through the internet. It focuses on different movements around such as anti-globalization protests, and highlights many other influential formal and informal networks of civil society and collective action. (Amazon)

Über das Buch: Protestnetzwerke – eine neue Dimension transnationaler Zivilgesellschaft?

Seattle, Genua und Porto Alegre stehen für eine neue Form transnationalen zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements. Aktivisten kritisieren die Folgen der Globalisierung, protestieren gegen die Politik internationaler Institutionen und schließen sich zu transnationalen Protestnetzwerken zusammen. Sie tragen unterrepräsentierte Themen in die Öffentlichkeit und demonstrieren grenzüberschreitend Solidarität. Geschickt nutzen diese Netzwerke das Medium Internet, um ihre Proteste zu koordinieren. Das vorliegende Buch analysiert diese neuen Netzwerke des politischen Aktivismus anhand zahlreicher Beispiele. (Inhaltsverzeichnis)