Nominate for EFF's Pioneer Awards!

It's time once again to nominate your digital heroes for the Electronic Frontier Foundation's annual Pioneer Awards; previous winners include Edward Snowden, Carl Malamud, Limor Fried, Laura Poitras, Heddy Lamarr, Aaron Swartz, Gigi Sohn, Bruce Schneier, Zoe Lofgren, Glenn Greenwald, Jon Postel and many others (I am immensely proud to have won one myself!).

EFF 2013 Pioneer Awards: video of Lessig's speech honoring Aaron Swartz

"Each year, EFF's Pioneer Awards ceremony gives the digital civil liberties community a chance to honor the work of those who have bettered our world through remarkable innovation, activism, journalism, or leadership," writes the EFF's Richard Esguerra. This year's awards honored James Love, Aaron Swartz, and Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, and included a powerful keynote by professor Lawrence Lessig and from Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, the partner of the late, young Mr. — Read the rest

EFF fundraiser/Pioneer Awards Ceremony Oct 22 , San Francisco

Rebecca from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday October 22nd at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco in a fundraiser honoring the 2009 Pioneer Award winners. Awarded every year since 1992, the Pioneer Awards recognize leaders who are extending freedom and innovation on the electronic frontier. — Read the rest

EFF Pioneer Awards tomorrow night in San Diego at ETech

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Richard Esguerra sez,


If you live in Southern California or happen to be going to ETech in San Diego, come and hang out at the EFF Pioneer Awards fundraiser on Tuesday night!

This year, the winners are the Mozilla Foundation and its Chairman Mitchell Baker, University of Ottawa Professor Michael Geist, and AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein.

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Nominate for the EFF Pioneer Awards!

It's time again for the EFF Pioneer Award nominations — for the awards given "to recognize leaders on the electronic frontier who are extending freedom and innovation in the realm of information technology." I was honoured to receive one of these last year, and EFF is once again seeking your nominations for this year's recipients. — Read the rest

Tonight in San Diego: EFF Fundraiser/Pioneer Awards at ETech

If you're in San Diego tonight, come to the EFF Pioneer Awards fundraiser at the O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference. $35 gets you the good karma of contributing to the net's best freedom fighters, booze and dinner, and a chance to hear Fred von Lohmann (the guy who successfully argued the Grokster case in the 9th Circuit) debate HDNet/Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban about YouTube and Viacom. — Read the rest

EFF fundraiser/Pioneer Awards ceremony at ETECH in San Diego

Next Tuesday, Mar 27, the EFF's throwing a fundraiser at the O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference in San Diego. The event is the presentation of the Pioneer Awards, an award that "recognizes individuals who have made significant and influential contributions to the development of computer-mediated communications or to the empowerment of individuals in using computers and the Internet." — Read the rest

Nominate for the Pioneer Awards

The EFF Pioneer Awards are upon us again — time to nominate your cyber-heroes for EFF's annual award for "leaders on the electronic frontier who are extending freedom and innovation in the realm of information technology."

Simply tell us:

1. The name of the nominee,

2.

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EFF Pioneer Award nominations are open

Nominations are open for the Electronic Frontier Foundation's annual Pioneer Awards, which are given out "to recognize leaders on the electronic frontier who are extending freedom and innovation in the realm of information technology." The nominations are open to the general public until August 6. — Read the rest

Hari Prasad, India's evoting researcher, working to save Indian democracy from dirty voting machines

Hari Prasad is one of the winners of this year's Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Awards; in Prasad's case, the prize was awarded based on his excellent work dissecting the (deeply flawed) electronic voting machines used in India's elections. Prasad was imprisoned by Indian authorities for pointing out the many vulnerabilities he and his colleagues discovered. — Read the rest