Bo Arne Leuf was co-author of the book The Wiki Way (2001),written in collaboration with wiki inventor Ward Cunningham. His book Peer To Peer (2002) discusses different peer-to-peer (P2P) solutions both from a technical and legal point of view.
Piratbyrån was a Swedish think tank established to support the free sharing of information,culture,and intellectual property. Piratbyrån provided a counterpoint to lobby groups such as the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau.
The Pirate Party is a political party in Sweden founded in 2006. Its sudden popularity has given rise to parties with the same name and similar goals in Europe and worldwide,forming the International Pirate Party movement.
Rick Falkvinge is a Swedish information technology entrepreneur and founder of the Swedish Pirate Party. He is currently an activist for the Pirate Party.
Magnus Andersson may refer to:
The Pirate Bay trial was a joint criminal and civil prosecution in Sweden of four individuals charged for promoting the copyright infringement of others with the torrent tracking website The Pirate Bay. The criminal charges were supported by a consortium of intellectual rights holders led by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI),who filed individual civil compensation claims against the owners of The Pirate Bay.
Lars Christian Engström is a Swedish computer programmer,activist and politician. He is deputy chairman of the Swedish Pirate Party. Engström was elected a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2009 election.
Amelia Anna Matilda Katarina Andersdotter is a Swedish politician and former Member of the European Parliament (2011–2014),elected on the Pirate Party list in the 2009 election.
The Pirate Party Germany,commonly known as Pirates,is a political party in Germany founded in September 2006 at c-base. It states general agreement with the Swedish Piratpartiet as a party of the information society;it is part of the international movement of pirate parties and a member of the Pirate Parties International.
The Pirate Party Switzerland is a political party in Switzerland,based on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party. The party was founded on 12 July 2009 in Zürich,by about 150 people. By the end of February 2012,the PPS had around about 1,800 members.
The Pirate Party of Canada was a minor party in federal Canadian politics. Founded in 2009,the party officially registered with Elections Canada in 2010. The PPCA is modelled on the Swedish Pirate Party and advocates intellectual property reform,privacy protection,network neutrality and greater government openness. No member of the party has been elected to Parliament. The party officially deregistered on November 30,2017.
Pirate Parties International (PPI) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization with headquarters in Brussels,Belgium. Formed in 2010,it serves as a worldwide organization for Pirate Parties,currently representing 39 members from 36 countries across Europe,the Americas,Asia,Africa and Australasia. The Pirate Parties are political incarnations of the freedom of expression movement,trying to achieve their goals by the means of the established political system rather than just through activism. In 2017 PPI had been granted special consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Pirate Party is a label adopted by political parties around the world. Pirate parties support civil rights,direct democracy or alternatively participation in government,reform of copyright and patent laws to make them more flexible and open to encourage innovation and creativity,use of free and open-source software,free sharing of knowledge,information privacy,transparency,freedom of information,free speech,anti-corruption,net neutrality and oppose mass surveillance,censorship and Big Tech.
Anna Troberg is a translator,author,and former party leader of the Swedish Pirate Party.
Kjell Stefan Löfven is a Swedish politician who has served as the President of European Socialists since October 2022. He previously served as Prime Minister of Sweden from October 2014 to November 2021 and leader of the Social Democratic Party from 2012 to 2021.
The Innovation and Technology Party,formerly The Pirate Party is a Norwegian political party which was founded in 2012. Its basic principles are "full transparency in state management,privacy on the internet,as well as better use of IT and technology to make a better democracy". On 17 December 2012 they announced that they had collected the 5,000 signatures required by law to register a political party and take part in the 2013 Norwegian parliamentary election. The party is a part of the Pirate Parties International.
The European Pirates (PIRATES) or European Pirate Party (PPEU) is an association of parties aspiring to be recognised as a European political party by the European Union. It was founded on 21 March 2014 at the European Parliament in Brussels in the context of a conference on "European Internet Governance and Beyond",and consists of pirate parties of European countries. The parties cooperated to run a joint campaign for the 2014 European Parliament elections.
Eva Magdalena Andersson is a Swedish politician and economist who has served as Leader of the Opposition since October 2022 and Leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party since 2021. She has served as a Member of the Riksdag for Stockholm County since 2014. She previously served as Prime Minister of Sweden from November 2021 to October 2022,Minister for Finance from 2014 to 2021 and Chair of the International Monetary and Financial Committee from 2020 to 2022.
Universal basic income has been debated in the Nordic countries since the 1970s. It has mostly been seen as a radical and utopian proposal and not taken seriously by the big political parties. However,1 January 2017 to 1 January 2019 Finland conducted a basic income pilot which got international attention. There are also some political parties and some politicians and journalists in all Nordic countries who are pushing for the idea of a guaranteed income. The Green parties for example,are generally interested in universal basic income,as well as the Pirate parties.
