What Swede think tank founded the digital online index that distributed the Yes Men Fix the World?
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The Yes Men Fix the World The Yes Men Fix the World is a 2009 English language documentary film about the culture jamming exploits of The Yes Men. The film premiered in New York City and Los Angeles on October 23, 2009 and in other U.S. cities beginning on October 30. Due to the movie being sued by United States Chamber of Commerce, a special edition of the movie is distributed through bittorrent through VODO and other prominent torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and EZTV.
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The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay (sometimes abbreviated to TPB) is an online index of digital content of entertainment media and software. Founded in 2003 by Swedish think tank Piratbyrån, The Pirate Bay allows visitors to search, download and contribute magnet links and torrent files, which facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing among users of the BitTorrent protocol.
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Jon Worth Jon Worth (born May 23, 1980 in Newport, Wales) is a political blogger, journalist, editor and a relatively early expert on EU affairs in the Internet who regularly writes about EU policy, Brexit and Germany policy. Since 2015 he is a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe.
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Democracy Index The Democracy Index is an index compiled by the UK-based company the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) that intends to measure the state of democracy in 167 countries, of which 166 are sovereign states and 165 are UN member states.
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Erik Hersman Erik Hersman (born 1975 or 1976) is a technologist, blogger and commentator who specialises in the impact and application of technology throughout Africa. Raised in Sudan and Kenya, he is a graduate of Kenya's Rift Valley Academy and Florida State University, he runs the websites "WhiteAfrican" and "AfriGadget," the latter being a multi-author website dedicated to showcasing African ingenuity. "AfriGadget" was named one of "Time's" "Top 50 Sites of 2008".
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Stop Islamisation of Norway Stop Islamisation of Norway (Norwegian: "Stopp islamiseringen av Norge" , SIAN) is a Norwegian organisation which was established in 2008, although its history goes back to a group started in 2000. Its stated aim is to work against Islam, which it defines as a totalitarian political ideology that violates the Norwegian Constitution as well as democratic and human values. The organisation is led by Arne Tumyr, and has several thousand members and supporters.
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FAES FAES (Fundación para el Análisis y los Estudios Sociales or "Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies" in English) is a Spanish think tank. It is a not-for-profit organization of conservative liberal ideology in Spain with strong links to the Popular Party (PP); it is even known informally as the "Popular Party's ideas laboratory". Its headquarters are in Madrid. Each year, FAES publishes an annual activity report, which can be downloaded from its website.
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Sweden Democrats Sweden Democrats or Swedish Democrats (Swedish: "Sverigedemokraterna" , SD) is a nationalist political party in Sweden that was founded in 1988. The party describes itself as social conservative with a nationalist foundation, however the party has been described as far-right, right-wing populist, national-conservative, and anti-immigration. The party had its roots in Swedish fascism and was a part of the white supremacy movement in the late-1980s; initially, it was characterized by right-wing extremism and activism. Among the founding party officials were several people that had formerly expressed strong support for the ideology of Nazism. SD's logo from the 1990s was a version of the torch used by the UK National Front, until it was changed to an Anemone hepatica flower in 2006 (Swedish: "blåsippa" ). Jimmie Åkesson has been party chairman since 2005.
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Scottish Global Forum The Scottish Global Forum is a Scottish think tank which aims to analyse global issues affecting Scotland and its role in the world. The focus is on areas relevant to Scottish public policy and legislation - "Scotland’s domestic politics, economics and security, and also its relations with other states, sub-state actors and international institutions" - but also to inform the general public.
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Foundation Asset Management AB Foundation Asset Management AB is a Swedish foundation asset management company, founded by the three largest Wallenberg foundations in order to manage the assets of the foundations, by means of direct ownership as well as through management and consultancy agreements. The administration of all the foundations and the donations of all the Wallenberg foundations is handled through a subsidiary. The Wallenberg foundations is an informal collective name for the twenty different foundations founded by the members of the Wallenberg family.
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WikiLeaks WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media provided by anonymous sources. Its website, initiated in 2006 in Iceland by the organisation Sunshine Press, claims a database of 10 million documents in 10 years since its launch. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its founder, editor-in-chief, and director.
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World Business Academy The World Business Academy, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is a think tank that examines the role of business in resolving systemic problems facing society. It was founded by Rinaldo S. Brutoco with the goal of facilitating the "redefinition of business as a social partner," one that determines its interests based on the well-being of society as a whole.
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Group 8 (Sweden) Group 8 (in Swedish: "Grupp 8") was a feminist organization in Sweden, founded by eight women in Stockholm in 1968. The organization took up various feminist issues such as: demands for expansions of kindergartens, 6-hour working day, equal pay for equal work and opposition to pornography. Initially the organization was based in Stockholm, but later local groups were founded throughout the country. Although Group 8 dissolved in the early 2000s, their influence on feminism in Sweden is still prevalent.
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Henrik Frystyk Nielsen Henrik Frystyk Nielsen (born 1969) is a Danish engineer and computer scientist. He is best known for his pioneering work on the World Wide Web and subsequent work on computer network protocols.
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Edgeryders Edgeryders is a social enterprise, and an open and distributed think tank of people working through an online social network and a series of conferences.
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Historiens 100 viktigaste svenskar Historiens 100 viktigaste svenskar ("The 100 Greatest Swedes") is a book by Niklas Ekdal and Petter Karlsson, published in 2009. Before the book was released, the list was published by Dagens Nyheter between 14 April and 6 May. The book is a list of the 100 Swedes that according to the authors has had "the greatest influence on Swedish people's lives, and also people's lives around the world". There are 84 men and 16 women on the list. Around 40 of them lived in the last century and 16 are still alive today.
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Jakob von Uexkull Carl Wolmar Jakob Baron von Uexküll (born 19 August 1944) is a writer, lecturer, philanthropist, activist and former politician. He served as a Member of the European Parliament 1987–1989, representing the German Green Party. In 1980, Uexkull founded the Right Livelihood Award, and in 2006, he co-founded the World Future Council. Born in Sweden, he holds both Swedish and German citizenship, and is a resident of the United Kingdom.
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Digital Divide Data DDD is a social enterprise that delivers digital content, data and research services to clients worldwide. Customers receive high-quality competitively priced digital content services. At the same time, DDD’s innovative social model enables talented youth from low-income families to access professional opportunities and earn lasting higher income. This model, established by DDD in 2001, is now called "impact sourcing” and has been implemented by dozens of firms around the world. Featured in Thomas L. Friedman's "The World is Flat" as an example of socially responsible outsourcing, DDD's clients include Reader's Digest, Harvard Business School, New York Daily News, Ancestry.com, and Stanford University.
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Yes Scotland Yes Scotland was the organisation representing the parties, organisations, and individuals campaigning for a "Yes" vote in the Scottish independence referendum, 2014. It was launched on 25 May 2012.
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Gapminder Foundation Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit venture registered in Stockholm, Sweden, that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
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Trustbox Trustbox is an online backup service for consumers and corporations that was founded in 2014 in Denmark.
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International Institute for Strategic Studies The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is a British research institute (or think tank) in the area of international affairs. Since 1997 its headquarters have been Arundel House, in London, England. The 2016 Global Go To Think Tank Index ranked IISS as the thirteenth-best think tank worldwide.