Now you can follow all the PDF Europe speakers on one list at Twitter. Now you can follow all the PDF Europe speakers in a Twitter list. I've created the PDF Europe list based on the latest list of speakers to the Barcelona conference. I'll try to update the list if there are any changes. The list is not an exact copy of the speaker list since some of the speakers are not on Twitter, or has protected their updates. Let us know if we have missed anyone.

Why isn't there a Sunlight Foundation in Denmark, a MySociety in Sweden, a FarmSubsidy in Norway?

All the kids I talked to this summer while on vacation in Norway, told me that they never paid for music. Ten years after Napster's birth, politicians have started paying attention, but are they doing the right things?

The events taking place in Iran for the past three weeks have made me thinking about this topic. Would the situation in Iran been different if access to the internet was part of the UN's Declaration of Human Rights?

They work to open up government, to build new, creative tools, push for transparency and make life easier for people - I call them the eGov geeks, and they are scattered throughout Europe.

Whether you call them politechnorati, eGov geeks or political hackers, they are giving new meaning to the word participatory democracy, which can be much more than “just” voting in an election every forth year. Most of them are working in the outskirts of political institutions, but influencing them by building tools that are vastly better than what the institutions can come up with themselves.