Smári McCarthy

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Smári McCarthy (born February 7, 1984 ) is an Irish-Icelandic author, activist and member of the Icelandic parliament Althing since 2016 . He is a board member of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI), a founding member of the Icelandic Digital Freedom Society and a founding member of the Icelandic pirate party Píratar . Since August 2019 he has been the party leader of the Píratar for the period 2019-2020. From July 2015 to November 2017, Smári McCarthy was chairman of the European Pirate Party .

Smári works for the private IT consultancy ThoughtWorks and on the side on various open source projects such as B. the email client Mailpile. In 2013, Wikileaks alleged that McCarthy had been approached by the FBI in order to be recruited as an informant. He also appeared in the documentary We Steal Secrets: The WikiLeaks Story . In 2011 and 2012 he appeared on the television magazines The Alyona Show and Zapp .

In the parliamentary elections on October 29, 2016 , Smári McCarthy successfully ran for the Píratar in the constituency of Suðurkjördæmi . He had run in the same constituency in 2013, but was not elected at the time.

Publications

  • Mediating Democracy , in Redvolution: El poder del ciudadano conectado .
  • Bergeron's Children , in Despatches from the Invisible Revolution, edited by Keith Kahn-Harris and Dougald Hine.
  • Cloud Computing: Legal Issues in Centralized Architectures , with Primavera de Filippi, in Net Neutrality and other challenges for the future of the Internet
  • The Future of Information Freedom , in The Future we Deserve , edited by Vinay Gupta
  • The End of (artificial) Scarcity , in Free Beer , edited by Stian Rødven Eide
  • With Eleanor Saitta: Islands of Resilience. Comparative Model for Energy, Connectivity and Jurisdiction , 2012.

Web links

Commons : Smári McCarthy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Smári Nýr formaður Pirata ( Icelandic ) In: mbl.is . Morgunblaðið. August 27, 2019. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  2. ^ Smári McCarthy ( Icelandic ) Althingi. August 28, 2019. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  3. ↑ smari on GitHub , last accessed April 29, 2014
  4. ↑ Mailpile , last accessed on April 24, 2014
  5. ^ Assange 'The World Tomorrow' - guests targeted by the FBI on digitaljournal.com , last accessed April 24, 2014
  6. ↑ a b Smári McCarthy in the Internet Movie Database (English), last accessed on May 1, 2014
  7. ↑ Brynjólfur Þór Guðmundsson: þessi taka á saeti thingi ( Icelandic ) In: ruv.is . October 30, 2016. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  8. ^ Despatches from the Invisible Revolution , last accessed April 29, 2014
  9. ^ Smári McCarthy, Eleanor Saitta: Islands of Resilience. Comparative Model for Energy, Connectivity and Jurisdiction. Realizing European ICT possibilities through a case study of Iceland ( English , PDF; 1.55 MB) International Modern Media Institute. 2012. Retrieved November 21, 2019.


Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .
personal data
SURNAME Smári McCarthy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish-Icelandic author and activist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th February 1984