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Smári McCarthy
Smári McCarthy (; born 7 February 1984) is an Icelandic-Irish politician, innovator and information activist known for his work relating to direct democracy, transparency and privacy. Early life McCarthy was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, the son of Kolbrún Óskarsdóttir and Eugene McCarthy. His mother is Icelandic while his father is Irish. At age one, his family moved to England. At age 9, they returned to Iceland, settling in Vestmannaeyjar, a town and archipelago off the south coast. He studied mathematics at the University of Iceland, but left to get involved with the digital fabrication movement. Career McCarthy got involved in the digital fabrication movement in 2007 and was involved in the creation of the first Icelandic fab lab in Vestmannaeyjar. He has worked with Fab Labs elsewhere, including Jalalabad, Afghanistan. The same year, McCarthy proposed the Shadow Parliament Project, a project intending to "crowdsource democracy". In an essay outlining the project, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Althing
The Alþingi (''general meeting'' in Icelandic, , anglicised as ' or ') is the supreme national parliament of Iceland. It is one of the oldest surviving parliaments in the world. The Althing was founded in 930 at ("thing fields" or "assembly fields"), situated approximately east of what later became the country's capital, Reykjavík. Even after Iceland's union with Norway in 1262, the Althing still held its sessions at until 1800, when it was discontinued. It was restored in 1844 by royal decree and moved to Reykjavík. The restored unicameral legislature first came together in 1845 and after 1874 operated in two chambers with an additional third chamber taking on a greater role as the decades passed until 1991 when Althing became once again unicameral. The present parliament building, the , was built in 1881, made of hewn Icelandic stone. The unicameral parliament has 63 members, and is elected every four years based on party-list proportional representation. The current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liquid Democracy
Liquid democracy is a form of delegative democracy, whereby an electorate engages in collective decision-making through direct participation and dynamic representation. This democratic system utilizes elements of both direct and representative democracy. Voters in a liquid democracy have the right to vote directly on all policy issues ''à la'' direct democracy; voters also have the option to delegate their votes to someone who will vote on their behalf à la representative democracy. Any individual may be delegated votes (those delegated votes are termed "proxies") and these proxies may in turn delegate their vote as well as any votes they have been delegated by others resulting in "metadelegation". This delegation of votes may be absolute (an individual divests their vote to someone else across all issues), policy-specific (an individual divests their vote to someone only when the vote concerns a certain issue), time-sensitive (an individual decides to divest their vote f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks () is an international Nonprofit organization, non-profit organisation that published news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous Source (journalism), sources. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activism, Internet activist, is generally described as its founder and director and is currently Indictment and arrest of Julian Assange, fighting extradition to the United States over his work with WikiLeaks. Since September 2018, Kristinn Hrafnsson has served as its editor-in-chief. Its website stated in 2015 that it had released online 10 million documents since beginning in 2006 in Iceland. In 2019, WikiLeaks posted its last collection of original documents. Beginning in November 2022, only around 3,000 documents could be accessed. The group has released a number of List of material published by WikiLeaks, prominent document caches that exposed serious violations of human rights and civil liberties to the US and international public, including the ''July 12, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FSCONS
Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS) is a Nordic conference trying to bridge the gap between software and cultural freedom held each autumn in Gothenburg, Sweden. It shares many similarities with FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting) in the way in which the event is structured, but where the latter attracts speakers and visitors primarily interested in Free software, FSCONS aims to attract a more diverse crowd. The conference was organised 2007-2011 by FFKP, the Society for Free Culture and Software. In 2012, a new member run association was formed to take over the organisation of conference. Conference history The event was first organised by members of the Free Software Foundation Europe, in particular its Swedish team and the then current intern in their Gothenburg office. It was organised the 7–8 December 2007 and attracted about 80 visitors. Some of the speakers were Jonas Öberg, Mats Östling, Lars Aronsson and Georg C. F. Grev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oekonux
The originally German Oekonux (pronounced "urkonooks") project was founded to research the possibilities of free software to fundamentally change the current political and economic structures. Oekonux considers that the mode of production of free software represents a new mode of production that has the potential to supersede the capitalist mode of production. See alsHipatia{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201070443/http://www.hipatia.net/index_es.php?id=manifesto_es , date=2008-12-01 , a related Spanish language initiative. History of the project At the first „Wizards of OS“ conference in July 1999 a spontaneous discussion round was founded after the panel „New Economy?“. Thereupon a mailinglist was created to continue the exchange—Oekonux was founded. A website to publish texts and to access mailinglist archives, and a wiki followed soon. In April 2001 the first Oekonux conference was organized in Dortmund followed by a second conference in Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organized Crime And Corruption Reporting Project
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is a global network of investigative journalists with staff on six continents. It was founded in 2006 and specializes in organized crime and corruption. It publishes its stories through local media and in English and Russian through its website. OCCRP works with and supports 50+ independent media outlets in Europe, Africa, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. In 2017, NGO Advisor ranked it 69th in the world in their annual list of the 500 best non-governmental organizations (NGO). History OCCRP was founded by veteran journalists Drew Sullivan and Paul Radu. Sullivan was serving as the editor of the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) and Radu worked with an early Romanian center. The team paired with colleagues in the region on a story looking at energy traders. The project showed traders were buying power at below production rates while the public was paying increasingly higher fees. In 2007 the project won the first ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Caledonia
''Bella Caledonia'' is an online magazine publishing social, political and cultural commentary. It was launched in 2007 and came to particular prominence during the campaign period of the Scottish independence referendum that was held in 2014. The site is not affiliated to any political party. Until late 2017, it also produced a 24-page print magazine which appeared as a supplement in '' The National'' on the first Saturday of every month. History In October 2007, writers Mike Small and Kevin Williamson launched Bella Caledonia at the Radical Book Fair in Edinburgh. The site provided some robust political commentary and explored ideas of self-determination. It was named after a character from Alasdair Gray's novel '' Poor Things''. Gray later provided the site with a new version of his artwork. By 2011, the magazine was gaining more recognition for its content and '' The List'' ranked it highly in a feature about top Scottish websites. During the discussions and debates that too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brennan Novak
Brennan may refer to: People * Brennan (surname) * Brennan (given name) * Bishop Brennan (other) Places * Brennan, Idlib, a village located in Sinjar Nahiyah in Maarrat al-Nu'man District, Idlib, Syria * Rabeeah Brennan, a village located in Sinjar Nahiyah in Maarrat al-Nu'man District, Idlib, Syria * Electoral division of Brennan, an electoral division of Australia's Northern Territory Other uses * Brennan Award (other), various awards * Brennan Motor Manufacturing Company of Syracuse, New York, a manufacturer of automobile engines from 1897 to 1972 * Brennan torpedo, a torpedo patented in 1877 * Brennan's, a creole restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana ** Brennan Family Restaurants The Brennan Family Restaurants are a group of restaurants owned or operated by family members of the late Owen Brennan (restaurateur), Owen Brennan of New Orleans, Louisiana. In the 1970s, there was a Brennan's Restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia. L ..., a group of restaurants operate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson
Bjarni is an Icelandic male given name and may refer to: *Bjarni Ármannsson resigned as CEO of Glitnir (formerly Íslandsbanki) in May 2007 *Bjarni Ólafur Eiríksson (born 1982), footballer (defender) from Iceland *Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1908) (1908–1970), Prime Minister of Iceland from 1963 to 1970 *Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1970), Prime Minister of Iceland since 2017 *Bjarni Bjarnason (born 1965), Icelandic writer from Reykjavík *Bjarni Friðriksson (born 1956), retired Icelandic judoka *Bjarni Fritzson (born 1980), Icelandic handball player *Bjarni Guðjónsson (born 1979), Icelandic footballer *Bjarni Herjólfsson (fl. 10th century) was an Icelandic explorer who sighted America in 986 *Bjarni Jónsson (born 1920), Icelandic mathematician and logician *Bjarni Jónsson (artist) (1934–2008), Icelandic painter *Bjarni Thorarensen (1786–1841), Icelandic poet and official *Bjarni Tryggvason (born 1945), Icelandic-born Canadian engineer and a former NRC/CSA astronaut *Bj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, not price; all users are legally free to do what they want with their copies of a free software (including profiting from them) regardless of how much is paid to obtain the program.Selling Free Software (gnu.org) Computer programs are deemed "free" if they give end-users (not just the developer) ultimate control over the software and, subsequently, over their devices. The right to study and modify a computer program entails that |
2013 Icelandic Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 27 April 2013. Fifteen parties contested the elections, compared to just seven in the previous elections. The result was a victory for the two centre-right opposition parties, the Independence Party and Progressive Party,Iceland vote: Centre-right opposition wins election , 28 April 2013 which subsequently formed a coalition government. The parties were eurosceptic and their win brought to a halt partially completed negotiations with the |
Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson
Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson (born 22 October 1980) is an Icelandic former member of parliament representing Reykjavik Constituency North. He is a member of the Icelandic Pirate Party. First elected in 2013, he did not contest the 2021 election. References Living people Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson (born 22 October 1980) is an Icelandic former member of parliament In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: represent ... 1980 births {{Iceland-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
