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Vita
I started working with information technology in 1984, and since then have been looking for ways to deploy ICT in useful ways for organizations and society. As a consultant for ICT strategy and implementation, I have worked for major German and international companies, as well as on many non-profit projects.
Besides my professional engagement, in 2002 I co-founded http://www.freifunk.net, a non-profit campaign to spread knowledge and social networking about free and “open' networks” — a campaign globally regarded as one of the most successful grassroots community projects in this field.
Then, frustrated from reflashing hundreds of wireless access points over the past years, in 2007 I started the Open Hardware Initiative — an alliance of activists lobbying for open source hardware at the sidelines of both eastern and western hardware industries. In 2008, I co-organized the first Open Technology Summit in Taiwan. Recently I am trying to ramp up the Open Source Hardware and Design Aliance (OHANDA) - http://www.ohanda.org.
Besides my job as CEO of a private consultancy company, my recent activities include digging deeper into the possibilities of manufacturing open source(d) electronic devices and chip designs and lobbying for new and more open licensing models for the radio spectrum - e.g. at http://openspectrum.eu.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.