Daniel is a fellow of the Rotterdam School of Management where he teaches MBA courses on scenarios and strategies for the Internet; and organisational design and entrepreneurship for the knowledge based economy.

Daniel lectures regularly at several management schools throughout Europe and is a prized speaker internationally. He chairs and keynotes conferences; facilitates workshops from 20 to 200 people and consults to many multi-national organisations on scenario processes and Internet strategy. He is co-founder and director of a virtual community the Digital Thinking Network. The DTN is a space to think about the impact that inter-networking technology has on the world. At the DTN Daniel facilitates strategies and business cases for companies and countries on the opportunities and threats of a digital economy.

As a consultant Daniel has worked on four continents with a diverse body of clients. In several major projects, he has been working as a strategic policy advisor to the Dutch Ministry of Telecommunication, facilitating large-scale interventions through scenario thinking with multi-national organisations and the creation of the business case for the Internet infrastructure for Zimbabwe. During the past five years Daniel has facilitated the development of more than 50 scenarios sets on the future of the information society. And he also established the world first wiki site dedicated to the topic of scenario thinking and planning ScenarioThinking.org, on which people who are interested in scenario planning can publish their ideas freely and share knowledge with each other.

Recently Daniel has been commissioned by the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam to lead the development of the site accompanying the Van Gogh Gauguin Exhibition. The landmark web site: The Van Gogh Gauguin Experience is the first of a new type of web site called an experience that seeks to use primary texts from the painters, elastic pages and “hidden” to create deep emotional experiences on the web. Cited by Infonomia as one of the top 100 thinkers on cyberspace Daniel Erasmus has been active in ICT since he programmed his first graphical adventure game at the age of 14.

Daniel is the chairperson and co-founder of foundation Reflecting. This foundation organises Reflecting the Internet, an event that reflects on the influence of the Internet on our commercial, economic, social and cultural lives. The theme for Reflecting in 2002 is Control.

He is the guest editor of The Journal for Convergence, authored a column The Economy of Ideas and contributes to publications from Intelligence to the Financial Times Review. Additionally he is the editor of the book Reflecting the Internet 1.0: Society and has authored several academic publications in the Internet, multimedia, technology and risk management fields.

He has created the Weekly Mail Guardian Rotterdam School of Management Scholarship, was the secretary general of the Internet Society’s European Co-ordinating Council and founding board member of ISOC.NL. Daniel has been awarded the Rotary Foundation Post-Graduate Ambassadorial Scholarship, Harry Crossley Scholarship, the SIEFSA Graduate and Post Graduate Scholarship and was a Rotary exchange student in Australia in 1987.

Daniel holds degrees in Electronic-Industrial Engineering from the University of Stellenbosch where he received full honours (Rector’s List) and a MBA/MBI from the Rotterdam School of Management at the Erasmus University.

Daniel, currently living in Amsterdam, can be found via e-mail or on planes, trains and cafes with a G4, a ristretto and a yearning for the warm plains of Africa.

Contact Coordinates:
Amsterdam Office:
Prinsengracht 707-I
1017 JW Amsterdam
The Netherlands
E-Mail: daniel@dtn.net