International team
International Project Team
Leading in this project are two ladies:
- Research: Kea Tijdens, research coordinator of the University of Amsterdam/AIAS and professor at Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
- Web management. Paulien Osse, director of the WageIndicator Foundation.
Kea and Paulien conceptualized the basic idea around X-mas 1999 and developed it ever since together. At the time Paulien was stil managing the combined websites of the Dutch Confederations of Trade Unions (FNV). Their first aim, a wage indicator that suits all: director, cleaning lady and truck driver alike. Their second goal: a wage indicator which traces gender/ethnic related wage gaps.
As for the international projects since 2004 Maarten van Klaveren beefs up research. And Dirk Dragstra assists on the web management side.
Tendayi Matimba is our financial manager since 2006.
Web management
Paulien Osse is responsible for the web management of the WageIndicators since the last century. She does the chatting, mailing, financial stuff, marketing and she talks with researchers, programmers, designers, data managers etc. She works hand in glove with Kea Tijdens of the University of Amsterdam. Together they invented the system.Since the WageIndicators are going international Dirk Dragstra joined the web management team. Dirk tries to create free publicity, writes content and does the talking in Polish, German, Spanish.
Sandra Blok and Joop Rosier. Both web journalists. They are responsible for the extreme attractive Dutch wageindicators. Since the Dutch websites are the test sites for all the other WageIndicators, they do a great job for all WageIndicator sites in all countries.
Irene van Beveren - journalist - is responsible for the Vip Pay checker. Rumbie Matimba is trouble shooter.
Scientific research
Kea Tijdens, research cordinator of the University of Amsterdam/AIAS , professor at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, is responsible for the scientific part of the WageIndicators. She had the guts to start such a project in 1999, when e-science still had to be invented.Her partners on the research team are Maarten van Klaveren and Joyce Jacobs. Joyce works in the so called Euroccupations project. Since end of 2006 Victor Beker from the ElSalario team in Argentina joined the international group for wage calculations. In 2007 Fikret Oez joined the team. His focus: the data set. Fikret also works for the Lohnspiegel team in Germany.
Wage calculations are done by: Victor Beker (all countries), Joyce Jacobs (all countries), Fikret Oez (Germany), Coen van Rij (The Netherlands).
Technique questionnaire and salary checkers
The company Wyldebeast-Wunderliebe is the WageIndicator partner for technique from the very first day. The technicians are:Huub Bouma, Duco Dokter, Wietze Helmantel.
Data management
The highly specialized data managers are Marianne Oldenborg, Sanne van Zijl, Anne en Sophie Plomp, Maarten Thissen and Ernst Schuurrman. Their joy is in code books, tables of occupations, industrial branches and questions. They jump over language barriers simply by coding the questions. Painstaking and scrupulous work. The data managers help researchers out by wiping the data clean for flawless use in statistical programmes like SPPS.Art Director
Nienke Dirkse is the WageIndicator web designer since May 17 2001! We hope she will never leave us. Working with Nienke is lovely. Fast. Creative. Lots of fun! Nienke runs her own New Media Design Bureau, ifthen.
Content management system
The content of WageIndicator is managed bij Plone. An open source system. Hubb Bouma, Duco Dokter and Wietze Helmantel, WyldeBeast-Wunderliebe implemented Plone for WageIndicator. We like to use Plone mainly because it is open source and because it can handle all kinds of languages.