wire.less.dk has been founded by Tomas Antvorskov Krag and Sebastian Buettrich.
Tomas Krag
Tomas Krag is a technology generalist with a focus on Internet technologies, low-cost infrastructure, Open standards, Free/Open Source Software and grassroots/community approaches to technology.
He is an experienced Linux consultant, systems architect and trainer.
He is currently working as a technology specialist and project manager with Refugees United (http://refunite.org/), and independent platform for refugees and migrant workers to register and search for lost family members.
Over the past years he has worked as a project manager at the danish government IT-department (Statens It), as a freelance linux consultant with Casalogic, as a linux/open
source trainer, and as Director of Technology with AllAfrica Global Media. He is also the co-founder of wire.less.dk, a
Copenhagen-based non-profit working with wireless technologies to establish internet infrastructure in developing countries.
For the past 8 years Tomas, through wire.less.dk, has done large amounts of volunteer work, and professional consulting in wireless and open source projects throughout Africa and South Asia. This has included research, training and workshop planning/facilitation, as well as co-authoring a
number of books on these topics. He also came up with the original concept of the Book Sprint (http://booksprint.info) Which has been used by himself and a number of other groups to write and publish large numbers of free technology related books (see http://flossmanuals.net/).
Tomas considers himself a wireless and F/OSS geek, and enjoys teaching and evangelizing both of those subjects. An experienced speaker and facilitator, and a with a business school background, Tomas has the ability to talk about technology at many different levels; from discussing code with programmers, to laying out the business implications of technology choices to a non-technical audience.
He does what he does because it’s loads of fun.
Sebastian Buettrich
edited: January 2009
I work with (low cost) wireless technology, free / open source software and solar energy,
building networks, systems, skills and capacity within the areas above,
as manager, developer, architect, consultant and teacher.
This work is focussed on (but not limited to) developing and underprivileged countries and communities, especially in Africa.
Currently, my affiliations are a.o.
- http://wire.less.dk , the NGO and company co-founded with Tomas Krag
- http://www.meraka.org.za/ consultant with the CSIR Meraka Institute, South Africa, leading the “WISP in a box” project
- Consortium member Wireless Africa
- Teaching at the Abdus Salam ICTP
- Co-authoring the Wireless Networking in the Developing World book
- Part of the wirelessU network – “a group of dedicated professionals working towards a world-wide, people-centered, inclusive Information Society. Our goal is to make it easier for existing groups and institutions to offer wireless training courses. We invite you to browse, download, comment and contribute. Each training unit has been composed and presented by experts in teaching wireless networking.”
- Consultant to the Tanzania Telecenter Network (TTN)
- Developer of educational websites and software at Moch A/S
My academic background is in quantum physics, optics, radio spectroscopy and scientific programming.
Former positions include IT management in the net/web consultancy area and in nanotechnology software development (Atomistix).
My short professional profile is available here:
sebastian_buettrich_-_profile_very_short_200808.pdf
Please contact me in case you are interested in more details.
I love and play music, currently with the group 18th dye.
I am fascinated and engaged with text, language and poetry in many forms.
I am serving on the board of the Center for Wisdom and Compassion, the danish center of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition.
