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The Digital Services Act could require big changes to digital platforms. Here are 4 things lawmakers need to know to protect people-powered spaces like Wikipedia.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Inventor of the World Wide Web, professor at the MIT, director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation, named in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century. Launched Contract for the Web, a campaign initiative to persuade governments, companies and citizens to commit to nine principles to stop "misuse"

Wikimedia UK has been working with the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK and individual medical academics to get experts checking and improving Wikipedia's medical articles. Last year, The Times observed that patients use a combination of Wikipedia and official sources to inform their choices about treatment (article behind a paywall). The newspaper praised experts who improve Wikipedia, saying their work helps to empower patient choices and give them confidence in their treatment.

Un peu extrême mais c'est un avis, il faut l'écouter (-;

les labels attribués après une notation, permettant aux ESN ( dont les startup), d'obtenir une distinction par rapport à ses concurrents : French Tech, Label TRUXT, Label STARTRUXT, Label ENR, Label CNIL

Un écovillage (ou éco- village, éco-lieu, éco-hameau), est une agglomération, généralement rurale, ayant une perspective d' autosuffisance variable d'un projet à l'autre et reposant sur un modèle économique alternatif. L' écologie y a également une place prépondérante. La priorité est en effet de redonner une place plus équilibrée à l'homme en harmonie avec son environnement, dans un respect des écosystèmes présents.