Pieter Colpaert

Gent Belgium

Open Transport lead (iRail) and Chief Finances at Open Knowledge Belgium

Technology / Software / Internet

Pieter Colpaert is a researcher at MultiMedia Lab - Ghent university - iMinds. He holds a master degree in engineering from College Ghent since 2012. Before starting his research position at MultiMedia Lab, he was running a digital signage start-up called FlatTurtle (http://flatturtle.com) which focuses on data visualisation, co-founded a not-for profit organisation to promote Open Knowledge in Belgium (http://okfn.be), and started The DataTank (http://thedatatank), an open-source tool for smart cities which enables them to open up their data in a machine-readable fashion. As a part of MultiMedia Lab for the past year, Pieter has been an active researcher in the field of E-Government, e...