About Rolf

Welcome to my website. In this section, I’ll give you some information about my work and why I do it.

About myself

I’m focusing on “e-collaboration”: mixing information and communication technologies with “traditional” group facilitation, to help teams and organisations achieve goals and learn.

  • How to collaborate online with your colleagues and partner organisations
  • How to manage and market your website
  • How to improve discussion processes and policy-making using the internet
  • How to cultivate an online community

Inspiration and motivation comes from the worlds of grassroots and consensus-based communities and networks, and open source, open organisations, and sharing and respect, and the art world, always challenging perceptions and assumptions.

My focus is mostly on the process of learning and empowerment. Success for me means the people I work with all feel better equipped to pursue their own dreams and plans.

My work so far

I have worked for civil society since 1994, starting with office networks, email and internet training in Central and Eastern Europe in the mid ’90s, and developing web sites and web applications for online discussion and policy-making, and continuing with learning and collaboration. I worked with many organisations both in The Netherlands and world-wide, for Friends of the Earth, OneWorld, and AIDEnvironment.

In 2004, I started working as fully independent facilitator, researcher, and developer, for organisations like Greenpeace, IICD, IDRC, APC, and Nabuur. Focusing on internet as an effective communication tool to work together.

Since 2007, Jaap-André de Hoop and I put our joint activities in a new company, Nivocer B.V., to provide development, hosting and support for tailor-made websites for monitoring and evaluation and online surveys, mainly focusing on the international development sector.

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Publications

De Moor, A., and R. Kleef. 2001. “Authoring tools for effective societal discourse.” In Proc. of the 15th International Informatics for Environmental Protection Symposium: Sustainability in the Information Society, , p. 751–756.
Kleef, Rolf. 2010. “All hands on deck: building civil society 2.0.” http://www.drostan.org/en/2010/05/heygov (Accessed May 3, 2010).
Woldhek, Siegfried, and Rolf Kleef. 2009. “Nieuwe kansen om de juiste weg in te slaan.” In Heilige Huisjes 2010, IS-Academie. http://www.heiligehuisjes.org/ (Accessed May 14, 2010).
Pistorius, Robin, and Rolf Kleef. 2002. CHM+: the CBD Clearing House Mechanism as a capacity building tool. The Hague, The Netherlands: Expertise Centre of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality.
Rolf Kleef, and Raul Caceres. 2008. “NABUUR: Effective Online Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer.” In The Participatory Web - New Potentials of ICT in Rural Areas, ed. Christian Kreutz. Eschborn, Germany: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), p. 8-11. http://www.gtz.de/en/themen/laendliche-entwicklung/15081.htm (Accessed January 11, 2009).
Woldhek, Siegfried et al. 2009. “Internationale samenwerking 2.0.” JOOP.nl, Jouw online opinie-pagina. http://www.joop.nl/opinies/detail/artikel/internationale_samenwerking_20/ (Accessed November 36, 2009).
de Moor, Aldo, and Rolf Kleef. 2004. “A Social Context Model for Discussion Process Analysis.” In Information systems for sustainable development, Idea Group Pub., p. 128-145.
Kleef, Rolf, and Aldo de Moor. 2004. “Communication Process Analysis in Virtual Communities on Sustainable Development.” In Environmental online communication, Springer, p. 209-220.