An information activist, free software developer and author. He has worked globally on issues of democratic participation, information security, access to information, civil liberties, and social and economic justice. He is co-founder and executive director of the International Modern Media Institute (IMMI), founder of the Shadow Parliament Project, co-founder of the Icelandic Digital Freedoms Society, the Constitutional Analysis Support Project (CAST) and the Icelandic Pirate Party. He has worked on developing and spreading digital fabrication technology through Fab Labs and Hacker Spaces. As of August 2013, he lives in London where he works on decentralisation of the Internet and counter surveillance measures for the public.
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Drew Sullivan / USAA senior trainer of Global Journalist Security. As a former U.S. Army Ranger, Drew is a military combat veteran but also a journalist who has covered armed conflicts and military affairs for more than a decade. While working for Knight-Ridder newspapers, he was a correspondent in Afghanistan in 2001-2002 and in Iraq in 2003. In the mid-2000s Drew covered the Pentagon for Knight-Ridder from Washington, D.C. From 2008-2011, he reported for the newspaper 'Stars and Stripes' in Iraq and Afghanistan. Drew has also reported from Panama, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, the West Bank and Bosnia.
Smári McCarthyAn information activist, free software developer and author. He has worked globally on issues of democratic participation, information security, access to information, civil liberties, and social and economic justice. He is co-founder and executive director of the International Modern Media Institute (IMMI), founder of the Shadow Parliament Project, co-founder of the Icelandic Digital Freedoms Society, the Constitutional Analysis Support Project (CAST) and the Icelandic Pirate Party. He has worked on developing and spreading digital fabrication technology through Fab Labs and Hacker Spaces. As of August 2013, he lives in London where he works on decentralisation of the Internet and counter surveillance measures for the public. |
