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| IT guru, writer, former entrepreneur (Founded Swedish Free Speech ISP Bahnhof - now hosting Wikileaks). | | IT guru, writer, former entrepreneur (Founded Swedish Free Speech ISP Bahnhof - now hosting Wikileaks). | ||
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| − | | Trudy Barber | + | | [http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/scafm/staff/title,56309,en.html Trudy Barber] |
| − | | | + | | Senior Lecturer - Media - Creative Arts, Film and Media |
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| [http://blog.brokep.com Peter Sunde] | | [http://blog.brokep.com Peter Sunde] | ||
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| Niva Elkin Koren | | Niva Elkin Koren | ||
| − | | | + | | Global Visiting Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and the Dean of the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. She is the Founding Director of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology (HCLT). Her research focuses on the legal institutions that facilitate private and public control over the production and dissemination of information. She has written and spoken extensively about the privatization of information policy, copyright law and democratic theory, the effects of cyberspace on the economic analysis of law, liability of information intermediaries, the regulation of search engines, and the legal strategies for enhancing the public domain. |
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| [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Marcin_Biography Marcin Jakubowski] | | [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Marcin_Biography Marcin Jakubowski] | ||
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| − | | | + | | Japanese activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and, beginning September 1, 2011 or sooner, executive director of the MIT Media Lab. |
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| [http://craphound.com/bio.php Cory Doctorow] | | [http://craphound.com/bio.php Cory Doctorow] | ||
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| − | | | + | | American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian[1] political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Since May 1998, he has been a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. |
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| − | | | + | | William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School. He joined the faculty in July 2000. He has also taught at American University, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society and The Shakespeare Chronicles, a novel about the search for the true author of Shakespeare's works. |
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Kenote speakers
Invited speakers
| Name | Comment | Status |
|---|---|---|
| TBA | TBA | TBA |
Proposed keynote speakers
| Name | Comment |
|---|---|
| Unhosted (project) | unhosted.org Unhosted is an open web standard for decentralizing user data. On the unhosted web, data is stored per-user, wherever the user decides. |
| Christina Haralanova | Currently a team member at LabCMO, Previously Managing Director at Internet Rights Bulgaria Foundation; Coordinator and trainer in FOSS at WITT. Also Women, Geeks, Culture |
| Jeremie Miller | Currently building the Locker Project, TeleHash, and Singly with a focus on personal data + distributed protocols. Helped found Jabber/XMPP, open platforms FTW! |
| Gabriella Coleman | Gabriella Coleman: Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication |
| Jacob Appelbaum | Ethics enthusiast |
| The Serval Project | Communicate anywhere, any time, without infrastructure or carriers.Communication should be freely available to everyone, because communication is a human right. |
| douglas rushkoff | media theorist, author; new book: PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED: 10 Commands for a Digital Age http://www.orbooks.com/our-books/program/ |
| Sue Gardner | Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director |
| Simon Phipps | Eclectic geek, campaigning for software freedom and political transparency. Photos & music to protect sanity in the process. |
| Isobel Hadley-Kamptz | Writer, freelance columnist, netizen icon |
| Ian Clarke | Entrepreneur and Computer Scientist, grew up in Ireland, currently living in Austin, Texas. |
| Farmor Gun | Senior blogger and grandmother (blog in Swedish) |
| Zooko | Technology wizard |
| Heidi Grande Røys | Norwegian minister responsible for the Open Standards policy and the Friprog centre. Has just released a book under a CC licence. |
| Oscar Swartz | IT guru, writer, former entrepreneur (Founded Swedish Free Speech ISP Bahnhof - now hosting Wikileaks). |
| Trudy Barber | Senior Lecturer - Media - Creative Arts, Film and Media |
| Peter Sunde | Flattr founder etc |
| Niva Elkin Koren | Global Visiting Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and the Dean of the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. She is the Founding Director of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology (HCLT). Her research focuses on the legal institutions that facilitate private and public control over the production and dissemination of information. She has written and spoken extensively about the privatization of information policy, copyright law and democratic theory, the effects of cyberspace on the economic analysis of law, liability of information intermediaries, the regulation of search engines, and the legal strategies for enhancing the public domain. |
| Marcin Jakubowski | Founder of Open Source Ecology. Hacks the Global Village Construction Set. Builds open source tractors and other farm equipment. |
| Vandana Shiva | She is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization, and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. |
| Richard Stallman | President of FSF. GNU Project. |
| Joi Ito | Japanese activist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist and, beginning September 1, 2011 or sooner, executive director of the MIT Media Lab. |
| Cory Doctorow | Blogger, Author, Free Culture proponent etc |
| Manuel Castells | Sociologist associated particularly with research into the information society and communications. |
| Yochai Benkler | THE keynote speaker to have at FSCONS. |
| Pelle Snickars | Head of Research at the Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images. (now a part of National Library of Sweden), Articles (swedish) in SvD "under strecket" are linked from SLBA. Here is an interesting interview (swedish). |
| Charles Nesson | One of the coolest law professors in history, currently leading a project to "reify university as a meta player in cyberspace": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nesson |
| Frederick Noronha | Free Software chronicler from Goa, India |
| Danny O'Brien | International Outreach Coordinator of EFF. Started Open Rights Group with Cory Doctorow |
| Alan Cox | Kernel hacker ..... |
| Andrew Morton | Kernel hacker |
| Pippa Buchanan | P2P University and more |
| Benjamin Mako Hill | ".. a scholar, technologist, programmer and free software and free culture activist" |
| Ilkka Tuomi | |
| John Perry Barlow | American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian[1] political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Since May 1998, he has been a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. |
| John Gilmore | Entrepreneur and Civil Libertarian |
| Franz Nahrada | Global Villages |
| Alex Rollin | works on open source car and is doing a project with Smári on peer-to-peer gratitude based currencies |
| Marcin Jakubowski | http://www.openfarmtech.org |
| Clay Shirky | Author of Here Comes Everybody: On Organizing Without Organizations - http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/ |
| Lawrence Liang | Author of Guide to Open Licences and involved in almost everything FSCONS stands for. Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Liang |
| Charles Leadbeater | Author of "We-think: The Power of Mass Creativity" (See his amazing talks on TED and/or youtube) |
| Chris Anderson | of wired magazine is a good idea for a keynote speaker. He wrote a book on Free. |
| Bruce Schneier | Excellent high-profile speaker with a security focus |
| James Boyle | William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School. He joined the faculty in July 2000. He has also taught at American University, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society and The Shakespeare Chronicles, a novel about the search for the true author of Shakespeare's works. |
Conference and theme speakers
| Name | Comment | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Your | suggestions | here! |
