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Founder of Fairphone, then went into TADA (data ethics manifesto), Founder & Host at "What if We get it Right?" (podcast), now Member of the Board of Advisors at "Creatives for Climate", a non-profit global network of creative thinkers from all over the world,

The Contract for the Web was created by representatives from over 80 organizations, representing governments, companies and civil society, and sets out commitments to guide digital policy agendas. An attempt to address issues of political manipulation, fake news, privacy violations, and other malign forces on the internet

Executive Chairwoman and CEO of the Mozilla Foundation and of Mozilla Corporation, one of the first employees of the legal department of Netscape Communications Corporation, wrote both the Netscape Public License and the Mozilla Public License, elected Internet Hall of Fame in 2012.

Deputy Chairman of The Document Foundation (Libreoffice). involved in the Taiwanese open source community since 1993, and since 2015 he is the President of the Software Liberty Association Taiwan (SLAT)

Co-founder of Cygnus Solutions, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks, the DES Cracker, and the Internet's "alt" newsgroups. Advocate of encryption policy. Currently on the boards of EFF, Usenix Association, CodeWeavers, and ReQuest.

He also served from 2000-2007 as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an organization he helped form. Cerf served as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995, and in 1999 served a term as Chairman of the Board. ****Since 2005, he has served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google****

A human rights defender and computer networking pioneer from South Africa. he has been the Executive Director of the Association for Progressive Communications. She was one of five finalists for IT Personality of the Year in South Africa in 2012. She was inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 as a "Global Connector". In 2015, she was the winner of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Awards. She is a founder of Women's Net in South Africa and has served on the Technical Advisory Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. In 2001, he founded Creative Commons. He is a former board member of the Free Software Foundation and Software Freedom Law Center; the Washington, D.C. lobbying groups Public Knowledge and Free Press; and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Acts as president of the Free Software Foundation in France, also its founder. He is a speaker for the GNU Project and the April association. Right now, he is a full-time volunteer for the SecureDrop project. In 2001 wrote Savannah and SourceForge.

Les buts du Manifeste sont les suivants : élaborer un idéal d'Internet que les participants au Projet Mozilla veulent que la Fondation Mozilla s'efforce d'atteindre ; communiquer avec les personnes, qu'elles aient ou non des qualifications techniques ; rendre les contributeurs de Mozilla fiers de ce que nous faisons et nous motiver à continuer ; fournir un canevas à d'autres pour faire avancer cette vision d'Internet.

Manifeste avec 10 points-clés : services, responsabilisation, standards... Nous exigeons que les organisations assument, indépendamment de leur forme juridique et de leurs sources financières, la responsabilité de leurs produits, services et processus numériques. Ceux-ci doivent avant tout répondre aux besoins des individus et ne pas exploiter leurs faiblesses psychologiques, sociales ou économiques. L'utilisation d'algorithmes et le traitement des données doivent être transparents et conformes aux principes de l'État de droit.

Mission to keep the internet open. "We put our knowledge and experience to work along EU institutions and civil society to ensure that the principle of openness is reflected in the European Union's digital policy framework". They "work on advancing Digital Public Spaces, building Data Commons and designing the Future of Open".

Founder of greenit.fr (durable IT), animates the "Collectif Conception Numérique Responsable", created a bunch of french terms linked to responsible IT ("sobriété numérique","numérique responsable", "conception responsable de service numérique", ...) and published a few books on the matter.

French journalist, interested in new technologies and communication, as well as social media. May cover digitaltransion on a "story" level.

"Dans votre livre, vous comparez l'acidification des océans à la pollution numérique, quel rapport ? Je ne rentre pas dans la mer en me disant : "la mer est acide". De même, l'aggravation de la pollution numérique échappe à nos sens. On peut la décrire avec des mots, avec des chiffres mais il est difficile sensoriellement de prendre la mesure de cette pollution. Et je pense que c'est le grand défi de la pollution numérique. Or en retraçant le parcours d'un simple like à travers le monde, je me suis rendu compte que mes cinq sens avaient été convoqués. J'ai découvert qu'Internet avait une couleur, en général vert pale, correspondant aux câbles sous-marins qui glissent au fond des océans ; un son avec tous ses serveurs qui sifflent étrangement comme une ruche ; un goût, celui de l'eau des mers ; une texture, celle de la roche rugueuse de laquelle on extrait le graphite qui permet de faire des téléphones portables. "

"We build desirable, open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems.".