The open search foundation (stichting open search)

The legal entity behind the open search project is the open search foundation (stichting open search i.o., registered under number 34261532 at the chamber of commerce in Amsterdam, The Netherlands). The board of this foundation consists of the following people:

• President: Dr. Richard Rogers, head of new media at Amsterdam University UvA, founder of govcom.org foundation, winner of the 2005 Best Information Science Book of the Year Award of the American society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST);
• Treasurer: Koen Martens, (soon-to-be) MSc in logic, owner of Sonologic, programmer, hacker, organiser, political activist, treasurer of GroenLinks The Hague section and idealist;
• Secretary: Erik Borra, MSc in Artificial Intelligence, entrepreneur and expert in the field of information technique and public administration, learning systems and text analysis.

The aim of the open search foundation is the development, distribution and maintenance of distributed, peer-to-peer search engines without central actors or storage. On the one hand this should prevent major multinationals to become preponderant in the field of information on the internet and on the other had to prevent public authorities to use the information concerning people's search behaviour to persecute them on the basis of their political convictions, sexual preferences or other characteristics.

The foundation has been founded on 11 December 2006.

Contact info

Stichting open search
Donker Curtiusstraat 7 - unit 136
1051 JL Amsterdam
The Netherlands

tel: +31-20-6842964
mail: info@open-search.net
chat: #open-search @ irc.sonologic.nl

kvk: 34261532
Bank account: ABN-Amro

• In the Netherlands: 49.75.95.117
  
• IBAN: NL55ABNA0497595117? BIC: ABNANL2A?

Forms and documents

• declaratie.odt: Expense reimbursment form

• opensearch_pamflet_v3.odt: opensearch pamflet to spread on conferences etc

• opensearch_pamflet_v3.pdf: opensearch pamflet to spread on conferences etc