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<title>Swedish activist receives Nordic Free Software Award 2011</title>
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<h1>Swedish activist receives Nordic Free Software Award 2011</h1>
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<img src="/graphics/erik_josefsson_medium.jpg" alt="" />
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<p>Erik Josefsson.</p>
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<p class="photographer">Photo: Håkan Lindgren</p>
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Erik Josefsson is the winner of the Nordic Free Software Award
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2011. With the award, the Swedish Foundation for Free Culture and
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Free Software (FFKP) honours Josefsson for his achievements as a
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campaigner for freedom in the information society.
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“We are proud to honour Erik for the tremendously important work
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he has done over the past ten years”, says FFKP Executive Director
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Jonas Öberg. “Erik has an exceptional ability to understand and
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explain the link between policy and technology. We are hugely
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grateful for his work. He is an inspiration to all of us.”
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From a career as a professional double-bass player, Josefsson
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gradually moved to full-time activism for freedom in the
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information society. He founded the Swedish Foundation for a Free
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Information Infrastructure (FFII Sweden) in 2004. Listed among
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Sweden's 30 most influential people during the European debate
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about software patents in 2005, Josefsson is among Europe's
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foremost defenders of software freedom.
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As an activist in Brussels, Josefsson was instrumental in getting
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the European Parliament to reject the Software Patent Directive in
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2005. More recently, he prevented the EU from passing a law to cut
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off people's Internet access without due process, and is currently
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campaigning against ACTA.
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Josefsson currently works as an adviser on Internet policies for
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the Green/EFA Group in the European Parliament. He is busy
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building tools such as <a
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href="http://parltrack.euwiki.org/">ParlTrack</a> that make the
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Parliament's processes transparent to citizens. “This information
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holds real power”, says Henrik Sandklef, Vice President of the
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Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). “Understanding how the
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Parliament works is very important for the Free Software movement.
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Erik does a great job of explaining software freedom to
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politicians, and helping freedom campaigners to understand
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Europe's power structure.”
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Every year since 2007, <a href="https://ffkp.se/">FFKP</a> has
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used the Nordic Free Software Award to honour people, projects and
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organisations in the Nordic countries that have made a prominent
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contribution to the advancement of Free Software. Previous winners
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of the award are Bjarní Runar Einarsson (2010), Simon Josefsson
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and Daniel Stenberg (2009), Mats Östling (2008), and the
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Skolelinux project (2007).
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