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.
advocate in the free software movement, said to debian mailing list "It's Time to Talk about Free Software Again", founded the Open Research Institute, promotes open radio communications standards and open-source hardware, created The Open Source Definition and published the first formal announcement and manifesto of open source
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.
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.
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****
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.
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,
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.