Maurice de Hond is a Dutch businessman, entrepreneur and founder member of the organisation “Education for a new era (04NT)”, which is responsible for the first “Steve JobsSchools”.

He is known in the Netherlands as a prominent election opinion poller and internet guru, regularly invited to speak at events and provide advice to organisations and the Government on future development. His 1995 book ‘Dankzij de snelheid van het licht’ (Thanks to the speed of light) successfully forecast many internet developments. 

In 1998, he founded Newconomy – where he also served as CEO – an investment company that has worked with over 20 Dutch internet companies. It successfully public in early 2000. Since 2002, de Hond has been active with his current affairs platform Peil.nl (www.peil.nl), which is regularly quoted in the Dutch Media. Peil.nl is a virtual company without a physical office.

In 2009, he became inspired by his daughter’s (Daphne) use of educational apps on the iPhone/iPad which, in 2012, led to the launch of the foundation O4NT (Onderwijs 4 een Nieuwe Tijd/ Education for a new era), and the development of a completely new school concept called the Steve JobsSchool. In 2013, the first elementary schools began to work with this approach, and currently there are more than 20 schools in the Netherlands operating using the Steve JobsSchool model with remarkable results (www.stevejobsschool.nl).  In the coming 12 months, several more schools worldwide will adopt the concept.

 

Links

http://stevejobsschool.nl/contact/