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 we 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
Organisations
- Free Knowledge Institute, contact Wouter Tebbens <wouter@freeknowledge.eu>
- EURALO: European "At-Large" section of ICANN (ALAC - ICANN)
- Free Software Foundation Europe; Georg Greve
People
See the policy work done by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure and European Digital Rights (edri.org).
- Philippe Aigrain
- Rishab Ghosh, MERIT
- Alan Toner: focuses on Intellectual Property and direct payment schemes to artists and creators
- 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 "
- Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation, rufus.pollock@okfn.org
- Jonathan Gray at the Open Knowledge Foundation: jonathan.gray@okfn.org
Also:
- 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
Austria
- Vibe!AT: Verein für Internet-Benutzer Österreichs
Belgium
- Association Electronique Libre
- ISOC Wallonie; contact <executif@wallonie-isoc.org>
- ISOC Belgium ; Rudi Vansnick, President Internet Society Belgium vzw, rudi dot vansnick at isoc dot be
People:
- Jonas Maebe, FFII
- Rudi Vansnick, National expert : - Saferinternet (EU)
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Denmark
- 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.
- Digital Rights
Finland
Organizations
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
Organisations
- Imaginons un Réseau Internet Solidaire (IRIS)
- Creative Commons France (Francois Déchelle)
- 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
- La Quadrature du Net ; contact J ZIMMERMANN at <jz@laquadrature.net>
People
Germany
- Chaos Computer Club]: hackers movement with must-go annual conference
- FoeBuD
- Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft (FITUG e.V.)
- Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (FIfF e.V.)
- Netzwerk Neue Medien (NNM e.V.)
Ireland
People:
- Teresa Hackett, EIFL - Ireland
Italy
Organizations
- ALCEI: Electronic Frontiers Italy
- Scambio Etico - Italy; Mr. Paolo Brini is ScambioEtico's spokesperson for European affairs. Contact via paolo.brini@iridiumpg.com
People
- Mr. Guido Scorza, President of Istituto per le Politiche dell'Innovazione (Institute for Policies of Innovation), active in favour of digital rights and Net Neutrality. His address is: gscorza@istitutoinnovazione.eu.
- Lucio Picci, expert on Reputation-based Governance
- Antonio Lioy, expert on Trusted Computing
- Marco Ciurcina - observer with EDRI
- Andrea Glorioso
Macedonia
Netherlands
Organizations
- 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
- Bits of Freedom: digital rights, works with EDRI
- Fobid: forum for Dutch libraries, contact Andrew at Cranfield@fobid.nl
People
- Rishab Ghosh, MERIT
- Arjen Kamphuis has been instrumental in the fight for Open Standards, and the policy adoption by the Dutch parliament
- Maurice Wessling - observer with EDRI
Norway
- 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.
Poland
- Polish Open Education Coalition: includes Polish National Library, Polish Wikipedia, Polish Creative Commons Society, National Teachers Education Centre, National Society of Librarians etc. List: Lista Koalicji Otwartej Edukacji KOED <koalicja-l@koed.org.pl>
- Modern Poland Foundation, a non-profit working in the field of Open Educational Resources and promoting idea of free and unrestricted access to knowledge; contact: <jaroslaw.lipszyc@wolnepodreczniki.pl>
People
- <wladek.majewski@gmail.com>
Portugal
Romania
Slovenia
- Aljaz Marn, observer with EDRI
Spain
- Comunicació per a la Cooperació (Pangea)
- Nodo50
People:
- David Casacuberta - observer with EDRI
- Jesus-Gonzales Barahona, URJC univ. Madrid
Sweden
- Karl Sigrid of the Moderate Party and 6 other parliamentarians have written articles to support decriminalizing filesharing.
- Erik Josefsson - candidate for European Parliament (vansterpartiet). SE: +46 707 696 567
Switzerland
- Swiss Internet User Group (SIUG)
UK
Organisations
- Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR)
- Open Rights Group]
- Open Knowledge Foundation [1]
- UKUUG: UK's Open Systems User Group, for people who care about open IT standards and the systems that implement them
- KEI [2]: an organization that searches for better outcomes, including new solutions, to the management of knowledge resources (US organization?, but with office in the UK); TEL:+44(0)207 226 6663 ex 252
Experts
- Steve Coast – founder of Open Street Map - steve@asklater.com
- Alan Cox – Linux kernel hacker - http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/23a/39b
- Jonathan Gray at the Open Knowledge Foundation: jonathan.gray@okfn.org
- 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
- Glyn Moody, advocate of Open Source and Open Standards
- Peter Murray-Rust – Open Data pm286@cam.ac.uk,
- John Naughton – writer, blogger, academic - http://memex.naughtons.org/
- John Newton, co-founded open source company Alfresco - john.newton@alfresco.org,
- Simon Phipps – head of open source at Sun, but based in UK - webmink@gmail.com,
- Rufus Pollock – open economics, Open Knowledge - http://www.rufuspollock.org/
- Roy Schestowitz – Boycott Novell site - r@schestowitz.com ; Freelance journalist @ http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/ ; expert in software patents
- Tom Steinberg – Open Government - tom@mysociety.org
- Mark Taylor, "one of the key people in the UK for everything to do with open source". Contact mark dot taylor at
- Bill Thompson – blogger, broadcaster on open source, digital rights - bill@andfinally.com
- John Wilson works on Open Spectrum issues
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