Willem Velthoven

Willem Velthoven portrait 2006 -
photo by Rebecca Gomperts. She is not really that tall - she was standing on a chair.
I am a designer. At mediamatic I'm co-responsible for the overall concept and design of the BiDnetwork website. I like connecting people and developing new tools for doing just that.

Hope of Nation competing to get in the picture. -
On the market in Chennai, Mumbai. I've published some more pictures of these amazing children on Flickr.com: Mumbai Faces.

Suri-Change facade -
Van Swindenstraat, Amsterdam. The total value of "money sent home" to developing countries is 2x the value of all development aid.

Dutch Innovation -
Suri-Change in the van Swindenstraat in Amsterdam, Netherlands now offers money transfers within the Netherlands as well as their standard transfers to South America. I guess people without bank accounts are becoming a market again in the Netherlands...
