A glimps into Nanquanu's community & workforce
Some of the people that are part of Nanquanu's community, including those from its workforce.
Chide aka "DrOteonu"
Paul-letta aka "Deamunet"
Jesse aka "Aeduin"
Carmen aka "Kemueira"
Alle aka "Alody"
Jelle aka "Vanja"
Veerle aka "Pantalaimon"
Alexandra aka "Nativa"
Koen aka "Kip"
Arthike aka "Pulli"
Jesse aka "Tuk"
Isa aka "Oechie"
Roeleke aka "Ro"
MEET FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR
DrOTEONU
Aka Dr Chide Groenouwe
“As a teenager I observed that a lot of talent of my peers was not noticed, let alone supported, by school. Moreover, I saw the beauty of and the synergy between all subjects, and was appealed by the notion “homo universalis”.
As a student (math, logic, AI, and philosophy of science) I was blessed with several 1-to-1 relations with professors, even visiting them at home. The university as institution, however, was quite inefficient. Mostly things were explained too
slowly or quickly. Students were not facilitated to share and refine learning insights or to participate in real research & development. Subjects were hardly related to each other, society and the broader sense of life.
I hardly attended lectures. Nevertheless, I graduated cum laude, following my own approach, and later acquired a PhD in collective intelligence with a dissertation praised for its creativity, precision and unique value. (Collaborative) learning, creating and sensemaking can be organised in much better ways. This inspired me to devote myself to lecturing, and research & development into collective intelligence systems at several institutes, culminating in the foundation of Nanquanu.”
MEET
DEAMUNET
Aka Paul-letta
“From the black box theaters of Utrecht to the innovation labs of IBM and Philips, I've specialized in transformational stagecraft—not for audiences, but for organizations. At Philips, I redesigned talent pipelines to spotlight hidden innovators. At IBM, I transformed unconscious bias training into measurable behavior change and at MUFG Bank I engineered equal gender hiring across departments—not through incremental tweaks but by rewriting the HR rulebook. These corporate experiments revealed their limits: you can't hack true equity into broken systems. That's why I now work with Nanquanu's collective intelligence—building next-generation frameworks where diversity isn't reported in spreadsheets but encoded in the architecture itself. Call me an organizational dramaturge for the 21st century. Using behavioral design and participatory systems, I want to create workplaces where talent isn't just recruited equitably, but given equitable power to shape what 'work' even means. The revolution won't be focus-grouped—but it will be inclusive by design.”
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AEDUIN
Aka Jesse Maas
“From a young age, I’ve been amazed about the wonders of science and technology. It is truly stunning what humans have achieved. We have built tools ranging from the wheel to the modern computer, and discovered practical things like electricity and worldview-changing realities like the scale of our universe. As I’ve grown older, I’ve also become more aware of the social, political, and economic conditions that underpin this prosperity. But also how fragile they can be and the limitations they have. I met Chide when he asked some of my fellow students if they knew some young people who were enthusiastic about programming. I quickly became fascinated by Nanquanu’s mission. I believe that modern technologies like computers and the internet can contribute back to the socio-economic systems that produced them much more then they already do. Never before was communication and collective decision-making possible at the scale and speed that it is today. Yet, many current platforms don’t fully realize this potential, or even actively subtract from our collective intelligence, wisdom, and happiness. This is, ironically, exactly because of their misaligned social and economic incentives. I joined Nanquanu to holistically build systems where both the technical and human dimensions, and their interactions are considered. Because jointly optimizing them will lead to a more effective and happy world.”
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KEMUEIRA
Aka Carmen Lemain
“In a world where rapid societal and technological advances shape our lives, we also face growing challenges—threats from oppressive ideologies that demand thoughtful, innovative solutions. I believe the path forward isn’t to mirror these threats with hostility, but to foster a deeper, more meaningful way of life for all. A way that nurtures freedom, compassion, and collective intelligence. This is what drew me to Nanquanu in 2020—an institute with a vision of a world where technology, society, and nature can coexist harmoniously. My journey began unexpectedly while pursuing my bachelor’s degree in Communication at Wageningen University, when I met Chide Groenouwe, the founder of Nanquanu. Our shared vision for a holistic, fair society inspired me to join Nanquanu as a contributor, and I’ve since had the privilege of engaging in thought-provoking discussions with like-minded individuals. It’s an honor to be part of this unique mission to create a better world where hopefully everyone gets a chance to thrive”
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ALODY
Aka Alle van Meeteren
“I participate in Nanquanu because it is an internet community, which focuses on the essence of every community, namely communication. Human society and human communication was the object of my study for many years. I have academic degrees in law and in philosophy. I am developer of novel and patented human-computer interfaces, next to my position as a civil servant. Born in 1947, I love still able to serve in a community and share my long experience as professional. Be it as a sparring partner around innovative ideas, as a legal consultant, or for information-technological work.
The photovar on my portrait symbolizes my passion. This is
an idea to improve the communication between man and computer. My hope is that it becomes a subject for one of the colis in a near or a far future.”
MEET
Vanja
Aka Jelle Hermsen
“With regards to technology I have always considered myself lucky. I was fortunate enough to start exploring programming from a very young age. Thanks to my 7 year older brother I learned to code in Pascal just when I was learning to write my first words in school. The idea that you can take matters in your own hand and wield the power of machines yourself never stopped amazing and pleasing me. While still in high school in the late 90’s I started programming professionally and really never stopped. After the bubble burst I went to university to take courses in computer science and math, but what struck me most were the courses on interaction design and psychological ergonomics. There’s an actual living, breathing human being in front of the computer! This convinced me that any technology should first and foremost serve human beings and collaborative intelligence is right up this alley, providing a beautiful synergy of people and machines.”
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Pantalaimon
Aka Veerle van Harten
“The mission of Nanquanu to create a more creative, sustainable and fair world really inspires me. With my background in sociology I strive to contribute to this mission by help building a socio- technological system for effective recruitment and team formation. One of the things that fascinates me about Nanquanu is that it has been one of the few workplaces that doesn’t work with a closed job description, but actually forms one in collaboration with you! Furthermore, Nanquanu seems to understand that people are not merely a means of production, but that each and everyone of us is unique and we can all contribute to make the world a better place if put under the right circumstances.”
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Nativa
Aka Alexandra Huisman
“I am interested in a wide range of topics. However, I am primarily interested in physical and mental health issues, specifically, the way we deal with negative experiences and the consequences and impact this can have on our lives and that of others. If we know how to deal with these experiences constructively, we can transform them into chances to develop as an individual, but also as a collective. Those who study the present ecological, societal, economical and political developments on a worldwide scale, knows that humanity faces an enormous challenge. Nanquanu offers and promotes exactly what is needed so strongly: focused and intensive collaboration and collaborative learning of many creative and talented individuals for the well-being of the greater whole.”
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KIP
Aka Koen van der Kruk
“I started hobby-programming at a young age. At school there was neither time nor expertise to guide me. This changed after joining Nanquanu’s pilot as a teenager. I was first trained in the programming language Scala. This was big step forward into a new professional world. In Scala there was so much more possible; I couldn’t imagine! I had to let go of my normal thinking patterns, and get so much more creative! The thing I love most about Nanquanu’s pilot was contributing to real, big, projects. First, working on exciting and important projects is for me far more important than money. Second, you learn much faster when there is something serious you can create. I liked helping educating other workers. I want more people to benefit from Scala!” In the meanwhile, Kip has acquired a BSc in embedded software systems, graduating among the top of his class.
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Pulli
Aka Arthike Kandasamy
“When I heard of Nanquanu as a teenager I was immediately very enthusiastic. Nanquanu is trying to build a multi-disciplinary “army of creativity” which is going to build new collective intelligence systems for all of us. Learning could be completely different using these systems. I do not understand they are not here yet, school is still so old-fashioned. Young people like me already see the change coming, and can’t wait until it is here. In the meanwhile I have completed an MSc in bio-chemical engineering, and have acquired professional software development skills.”
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Tuk
Aka Jesse Nortier
“The way Nanquanu unites learning, creation and finance is transparent, fluent and beautiful to me. I think it is an exemplary approach to the support of personal development that not only benefits the individual, but also and especially the ‘larger whole’! A lot of Nanquanu’s basic principles, in my opinion especially the aspect of ‘role fluency’, are such healthy, simple and elegant approaches to roles and hierarchy in an organisation; it amazes me they are not more widely used. Nanquanu is an initiative I gladly support, knowing that all effort (both mental and financial!) put into it is effectively emphasised by the organisation itself, due to the recursiveness of its mission!”
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Oechie
Aka Isa Dawie
“I come from a warm family in which the community is very important. I can’t bear if people feel bad because of my wrong- doing! Next to communication, I love technology. I was delighted that Nanquanu is striving for exactly that, creating a community that is intended to do good with technology. Within Nanquanu, I want to focus on scouting, and guiding others to acquire general working skills. I also struggled with these – and sometimes still am! I received time-management training within Nanquanu’s pilot. This was also very beneficial for my (regular) school-work! Contacts within Nanquanu are also valuable to me in general. For example, I became more aware of my daily choices, and started buying organic food, and became vegetarian. I come from a family of hard working immigrants, and finding our way in a new society is not always easy. Nanquanu-contacts helped me find high quality schooling I would not have been aware of otherwise!”
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RO
Aka Roeleke Schepers
“As long as I can remember, I had millions of questions about why we do the things in school as we do. It didn’t make any sense to me. With the new technologies available nowadays, it is possible to make huge paradigm
shifts to a more effective and meaningful approach. To learn and express ourselves in our own unique way, at our own speed, in that what is in our best interest. Nanquanu is a new brilliant intelligent system that creates, facilitates and supports new learning possibilities. That excites me! It’s up to us, the collective, to redirect our focus to a world we want to live in, by helping each other grow.
There is nothing more exciting to me than
discovering the possibilities in this life. To break with old paradigms and systems of limitations for the purpose of having fun and to be of service to humanity. I have a strong desire to be of service to this world according to my highest potential. I highly believe in the potential of systems like Nanquanu to make a change. I am also involved in other projects, that just as Nanquanu, help us learn and increase consciousness in new playful ways.”