List of European Policy Consultants

Context: an attempt to create a meshwork of open/free, participatory/p2p, Commons-informed policy experts that can intervene in European policy debates.

What I aim to do here is to match sympathetic politicians and policy makers, with policy advisers.

Main List

Alexander Schellong, expert on Citizen Relationship Management approaches

Country List

Pan-European

See the policy work done by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure and European Digital Rights (edri.org).

1. Philippe Aigrain
2. Rishab Ghosh, MERIT
3. Alan Toner: focuses on Intellectual Property and direct payment schemes to artists and creators
4. Monica Horten University of Westminster, Communications and Media Research Institute, and maintainer of the IpTegrity blog, focuses on internet rights issues. Website: www.iptegrity.com. Contact at monica_horten (@) iptegrity.com "

• A group of EU parliamentarians, ean Louis Cottigny, Pierre Pribetich, Michel Rocard,

Bronisław Geremek and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, have proposed a WRITTEN DECLARATION pursuant to Rule 116 of the Rules of Procedure on the use of open source software (25.9.2008)

URL = http://www.cianblog.com/wp-content/uploads/alix/EN-European-Parliament-Written-Declaration.pdf

Belgium

1. Association Electronique Libre

Denmark

1. The IT-Political Association of Denmark: focusing on various issues, such as privacy, infrastructure security, open standards, software patents, DRM and copyright, e-voting or RFID.
2. Digital Rights

Finland

Organizations

1. Electronic Frontiers Finland

People

Politicians

"we have a very good Green MP in Finland called Jyrki Kasvi. I believe internationally his main feat would be to be the famous politician whose homepage is available in Finnish, English and Klingon, http://kasvi.org/index.php?kli ...but in real politics he is for all the right things ranging from Software Patent issues to being an active Facebook user." (Henrik Ingo)

Also one of the best MEP's in this regards is from Finland, Pia-Noora Kauppi (http://www.kauppi.net/fin/Yhteystiedot.10.html) and she seems to have become rather influential within these issues the conservative euro-party, after being very prominently for "the right things" in the Software Patent case, as well as some other IPR and Open Source related cases." (Henrik Ingo)

France

1. Philippe Aigrain
2. Francois Déchelle Creative Commons France
3. APRIL, the French activist organization to promote Libre Software, has different campaigns, such as Stop DRM and EUCD, but especially Candidats FR which targets French politicians

Germany

1. Chaos Computer Club]: hackers movement with must-go annual conference

==Ireland--

1. Digital Rights

Italy

Organizations

1. ALCEI: Electronic Frontiers Italy

People

1. Lucio Picci, expert on Reputation-based Governance
2. Antonio Lioy, expert on Trusted Computing

Netherlands

Organizations

1. Vrijschrift: stimulates free and open software and knowledge with projects ranging from supporting the Openstreetmap and Gutenberg projects to providing an umbrella for translators of open source software, OOXML and IPRED2
2. Bits of Freedom: digital rights, works with EDRI

People

1. Rishab Ghosh, MERIT
2. Arjen Kamphuis has been instrumental in the fight for Open Standards, and the policy adoption by the Dutch parliament

Norway

1. Electronic Frontier Norway: civil liberties and digital rights organization working to protect and promote freedom of expression, privacy, the use of open standards and media file formats, public access to online resources and information, democratic IT infrastructures.

Portugal

1. Associação Nacional para o Software Livre (ANSOL)

Romania

1. Association for Technology and Internet

Spain

1. Comunicació per a la Cooperació (Pangea)

Sweden

1. Karl Sigrid of the Moderate Party and 6 other parliamentarians have written articles to support decriminalizing filesharing.
2. Erik Josefsson - candidate for European Parliament (vansterpartiet). SE: +46 707 696 567

UK

Experts

1. John Wilson works on Open Spectrum issues
2. Glyn Moody, advocate of Open Source and Open Standards
3. Mark Taylor, "one of the key people in the UK for everything to do with open source". Contact mark dot taylor at opensourceconsortium dot org
4. Monica Horten University of Westminster, Communications and Media Research Institute, and maintainer of the IpTegrity blog, focuses on internet rights issues. Website: www.iptegrity.com. Contact at monica_horten (@) iptegrity.com "

Politicians

1. John Pugh, the Liberal Democrat MP for Southport [1]

Suggested for inclusion by Philippe Aigrain

• Volker Grassmuck
• Felix Stalder
• Konrad Becker
• Andrea Glorioso
• Jesus-Gonzales Barahona, URJC univ. Madrid

Non-European Policy Experts

David Bollier <bollier AT essential.org>

* commons theory
* intellectual property

Paul B. Hartzog <PaulBHartzog AT panarchy.com>

* panarchy (network/p2p governance/society/economy)
* commons theory
* complexity (complex adaptive systems)

Mark Cooper MarkCooper@aol.com

*Communications infrastructures for collaborative production [2]

List from Forum on Internet Governance:

Forum sur la gouvernance d’Internet (FGI), est composée actuellement de Magdy Nagi de la Bibliothèque d’Alexandrie, Jamie Love de Consumer Project on Technology, Eddan Katz du Yale Information Society Project, Robin Gross de IP Justice, Daniel Dardieller du consortium de normalisation WC3 et de Susy Struble de Sun Microsystems.