Bas van Abel

Bas van Abel (2014)

Bas van Abel (born August 18, 1977 in Nijmegen ) is a Dutch designer , electrical engineer and entrepreneur in the field of social business .

Origin and education

Van Abel was born in Nijmegen in 1977. From 1997 to 2002 he studied interaction design at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht , and in 2000 he completed a parallel degree as an electrical engineer and programmer at the Technical University of Delft .

Career

The Waag Society's FabLab in Amsterdam

Since 2010, Bas van Abel has been working for the non-profit organization Waag in Amsterdam, which deals with the interfaces between art, technology and electronic media, on projects under the aspects of sustainability and fair trade in the field of entertainment and communication electronics . This ultimately led to the founding of Fairphone as an exemplary implementation of an alternative by manufacturing a smartphone in a modular design that strives for the fairest possible extraction of raw materials, fair trade and fair manufacturing conditions as well as longevity and reparability . In corresponding tests, the current model Fairphone 2 regularly landed in first place.

The company has sold 160,000 smartphones so far (as of Oct. 2018), and Bas van Abel has received multiple awards for Fairphone.

In October 2018 van Abel gave up the position as CEO , his successor became the previous managing director Eva Gouwens. Van Abel moved to Fairphone's board of directors with the self-chosen goal of focusing more on the company's further strategic direction.

Awards

• 2013 Fontanel Public Award at the Dutch Design Awards
• 2013 nomination for the Rotterdam Design Prize
• 2015 Momentum of Change from the hands of Bertrand Piccard at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris 2015 of the UNFCCC
• 2016 Environment Prize of the Federal Environment Foundation from the hands of Federal President Joachim Gauck
• 2018 World Economic Prize from the IfW , the City of Kiel and the IHK Schleswig-Holstein
• 2018 Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 from the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

Publications

• with Paul Atkinson and others: Open Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive. BIS Publishers, 2011, ISBN 978-90-6369-259-9 .

Web links

Commons : Bas van Abel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• TEDx Talks on November 6, 2013
• Page at the German National Library on Bas van Abel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} https://www.ifw-kiel.de/de/institut/veranstaltungen/preisverleihungen/weltwirtschaftlicher-preis/events/weltwirtschaftlicher-preis-2018/bas-van-abel/ Portrait van Abels on the institute's website for world economy in Kiel, accessed on April 22, 2019.
2. ↑ https://waag.org/en/bas-van-abel accessed on April 25, 2019.
3. ↑ https://waag.org/en Waag website, accessed on April 25, 2019.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} http://www.areamobile.de/news/48488-fuehrungswechsel-bei-fairphone-bas-van-abel-hoert-als-ceo-auf change in leadership at Fairphone: Bas van Abel retires as CEO , Björn Brodersen, October 17, 2018, accessed April 23, 2019.
5. ↑ https://www.chip.de/news/iFixit-Experten-haben-es-getestet-Diese-Smartphones- Klassen-sich-gut- reparieren_133368260.html accessed on April 25, 2019.
6. ↑ https://de.ifixit.com/smartphone-repairability accessed on April 25, 2019.
7. ↑ https://www.giga.de/hardware/fairphone-2/gallery/top-3-diese-smartphones- Klassen- sich- am- besten- reparieren / #page= 12 accessed on April 25, 2019.
8. ↑ http://designprijs.nl/en/bas-van-abel-fairphone/ accessed on April 23, 2019.
9. ↑ http://unfccc.int/mfc2015/paris-climate-change-conference/#intro Awarding of the Momentum of Change Prize ICT Solutions: Special Event on December 9, 2015, accessed on April 23, 2019.
10. ↑ https://www.dbu.de/123artikel36907_2418.html 10/12/2016 | Groundbreaking environmental vision for fair smartphones , German Environment Prize 2016: Individual award Bas van Abel, accessed on April 22, 2019.
11. ↑ https://www.schwabfound.org/awardees/bas-van-abel Web presence of the Schwab Foundation, accessed on April 23, 2019.