About half a year ago, we at us. embarked on an exciting journey, with the ultimate goal of B Corp certification. On July 23, we submitted our entry, after systematically going through all phases of the 'B Impact Assessment' in recent months, guided by the amazing impact accelerators from No Dodos. A great moment to look back.

us. is a digital partner for numerous NGOs and other charitable organizations in the Netherlands and beyond. Not because it’s where the big money is, but because we believe it’s important (and necessary) to do something positive for the world. That might sound ambitious, but at us., we know that positive change usually starts small. And that means our modest contribution matters too.

As a digital partner for an increasing number of socially engaged organizations, we at us. are always looking for innovations. Our main drive is to amplify the impact of our clients. Ensuring that they can expand their digital capabilities with smart solutions and achieve more success; success that makes the world a better place.

For years, the World Wide Web has been mainly useful if you were somewhat digitally savvy. But if you weren't – for any reason – with some good will (and some patience), you could still manage your affairs offline. Nowadays, that is almost impossible; whether it's scheduling a dental appointment, subscribing to a service, filing a complaint about your telecom provider, or accessing messages and information from the tax authorities and municipalities... More and more (essential) services and information provision are taking place online.

What does our technical architect Joost have in common with banana picker Carlos in Ecuador? Very little, actually. They lead completely different lives. Yet there's one thing they agree on: the world is unfairly divided. And Joost happens to be able to do something about it.

Landscape organizations are leveraging the possibilities of online, with us.'s NGO suite

There are clients that you do a great job for once and there are clients who quickly become real partners. Partners with whom we feel like a fish in water. What makes that difference? What makes a Customer a king (or queen) ?

us. has been working as a technology partner of SIDN For 9 years. SIDN is the managing organization (registry) of the .nl domain. Nicole Wedler has been working there just a little longer. As a brand new online communication specialist, she introduced us. to her new employer in 2013. "Over the years we have built up a personal relationship. We can fully rely on each other. For me, that is the precondition for a good collaboration."

Wordpress… From a technical point of view, it is certainly not the most pleasant platform to work with. It is therefore not very popular among programmers. It's relatively slow, the underlying technology feels outdated, and the market is full of "hacky" theme and plugin solutions. Yet it is one of our CMS solutions. Why and how do we deal with Wordpress at us.? How do we make it bearable?

Why we have chosen GCP

This is how we help clients to speed up the Sustainable Development Goals

The technologies used for our website and why we chose them.

On june the 3rd us. was the host (location, beer and pizza) for the Amsterdam UX workshop.

Read how to configure the visual merge tool from intellij as the default merge tool for Mercurial.

How we used Kadaster Open Data to serve content based on the municipality of the visitor.

Read why we moved away from Bugzilla and implemented YouTrack as our goto issue tracker.

Received the first renders for the Campus building from Dedato, and they look amazing!

Some ideas and visuals to help me illustrate and improve the wild Campus idea.

Together with Waag Society from Amsterdam we are trying to move a Fab Lab to Suriname

Our latest project is taking our vision to the next level: the Spang Campus.

Establishing a creative sector in Suriname

Sparking sustainable transformation of the creative industry in the Caribbean region.