Markus Beckedahl, 27, is an activist, lobbyist and networker for a free knowledge society.
Markus is founder and chairman of Network New Media (Netzwerk Neue Medien e.V.), a german grassroots membership based civil liberties organization to promote civil rights in the information society, co-founder of the German Civil Society Causcus to the WSIS, and press-spokesman of the german NGO´s at the WSIS in Geneva. For the last six years he has been coordinating and developing the content-work of the german green youth covering the topics civil rights and net politics.
He is working in Berlin as a co-founder and executive manager of newthinking communications, an agency for society communication, working for NGOs and free software organizations/companies.
independent policy strategist, journalist, co-founder, Public Knowledge, Fellow at the Tomales Bay Institute & author of "Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth," Amherst, MA