Markus Beckedahl

Markus Beckedahl is the founder and chief-editor of netzpolitik.org, german's most-influential political blog. He is the co-founder of the re:publica, europe's leading conference on internet & society and a co-founder and partner of newthinking, an agency working on open source strategies.

Between 2010-2013 Markus Beckedahl was a member of the inquiery commitee on internet and digital society by the Deutsche Bundestag. Since 2010 he is a board-member of the state media authority Landesmedienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg. He is author and publisher of several books regarding topics of internet and society.

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