Jean-Baptiste Soufron (born 6 April 1978) is a lawyer and writer in

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, France. He has been an advisor to the French government and the former general secretary of the French National Digital Council (2012–2015).

Career

Soufron graduated from

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. He translated ''

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'', a book by

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into French. He was a consultant for

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and

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companies in 2006. In 2002, he was a co-founder of and the lawyer for Ligue Odebi, a collective dedicated to defend French internet users in front of the LCEN and DAVDSI bills. In 2004, he was a co-founder of and the lawyer for Audionautes, a nonprofit dedicated to defend internet users threatened by the music industry. In 2003, he was one of the two lawyer of Jiraf (le Jeu et son Industrie Rassemble leurs Acteurs Français), a nonprofit French association created to find a solution to save the French video games industry at the people level. In 2004, he was a co-founder of Wikimedia France, the French chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation. In 2006, during the presidential campaign, he worked with

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as one of the authors of the Republic 2.0 report for

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. He was involved in Wikipedia from the beginning of the project, helping with legal matters before becoming lead legal coordinator and then the chief legal officer of the

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(2006–2008). In 2010, Soufron was the director of the

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of Cap Digital. He has been writing on open innovation and digital culture in ''Esprit'', and on Internet politics in ''Dissent''. He founded several startups such as '' Amusement Magazine'' and the review website nonfiction.fr. As a journalist, he co-hosted the live shows ''Minuit/Dix'' and ''Le Rendez-Vous'' on France Culture radio. In 2012, he worked with

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, an advisor of candidate

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, on the digital economy. In 2012, after the presidential election, he became the senior advisor on digital economy of the cabinet of the Ministry of Small & Medium-Sized Businesses and Digital Economy. From 2012 to 2015, he was the

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. In 2015, he became a partner at the law firm FWPA Avocats in Paris.

Publications

Jean-Baptiste is regularly featured in the press and has a blogs in English and French. He has published several public reports. In 2005, for

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, he publishe
a report on open source impacts on ICT standardization
In 2007, for

, he published the report Republic 2.0 under the direction of

. In 2008, for Terra Nova, he published a report on the French HADOPI Law. In 2017, again for Terra Nova, he published a report on electoral fraud online. In 2018, once again for Terra Nova, he published a report on fake news. He has also participated in several books, including in 2005, when he published the French translation of ''The Future of Ideas'' by

. In 2011, he published ''La révolution libertarienne des monnaies virtuelles'' in ''Au-delà de la crise financière'', under the direction of Carine Dartiguepeyrou. In 2012, he published ''80 propositions qui ne coûtent pas 80 milliards'', under the direction of Patrick Weil. In April 2020, he co-published the forum entitles "StopCovid est un projet désastreux piloté par des apprentis sorciers" in ''Le Monde'' newspaper with sociologist Antonio Cassili and mathematician Paul-Olivier Dehaye, in which the authors claim that the French government is not authorized to consider treatment that will be made of this sensitive information resulting from COVID-19 contact tracing apps

References

External links

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