Lieke Ploeger

Lieke Ploeger works as project coordinator at Tactical Tech, mainly on Exposing the Invisible: a project about the techniques, tools and methods of digital and non-digital investigations. Using activities, films, guides and a bank of resources, Exposing the Invisible aims to encourage transparency and accountability and to make investigation accessible to everyone. Her core interest lies in building and developing both online and offline communities of interest, with a focus on sharing knowledge and expertise in an open way.

She is the co-founder of the independent project space SPEKTRUM art science community in Berlin, where she worked as community builder from 2014 to 2018. She published the manual ‘How we can all make it to the future: A guide to offline community building in art & science’ on the community building process of SPEKTRUM art science community.

She previously worked for the Disruption Network Lab as Community Director of the Activation programme, partnering with Berlin-based activists to share skills & create new tools to fight digital injustice, for the Open Knowledge Foundation, a global non-profit organisation focused on realising open data’s value to society by helping civil society groups access and use data to take action on social problems, and for the National Library of the Netherlands. She has a double master of arts from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands and has been involved in various European research projects in the areas of open cultural data, open access and open science.