During the 5th European Innovation Summit, I was invited to present my views on standardisation processes and innovation. Standardisation is a very important activity and allows for open platforms that can be used by different parties. However, standardisation can also be a political point - laws are effectively the way we standardise behavioural norms for society. My address therefore focused on this issues, but was free form and therefore it is recollected from memory:

Address:

Curiosity killed the cat, as they say in English, and the medical confidentiality cat is one cat we may not want to kill too lightly.

Detta året hade jag nöjet att återigen vara med på Bok och bibliotek tillsammans med Piratpartiet. Jag hade också, för andra året i rad, möjligheten att göra ett trettio minuters anförande om mina goda politiska gärningar i EU-institutionernas monter. Informationspolitik framstår ofta som oundviklig och ogenomträngbar, men det är inte sant.

I was invited to hold an address at the 5th edition of the European Innovation Summit in the European Parliament on the topic of helping to advance small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union.

I had the big privilege of getting to attend the BruCon Conference in Gent on September 26 2013. It's an annual security conference which is attended by professionals, students and academics in the field. I had chosen to speak about the first eight articles of the electronic identification and trust services regulation at the conference. They cover electronic identification, and I am particularly critical of some of the Commission's policy choices in the file.

I had the great privilege of being invited to hold a video presentation for a group of Jindal Global Law School, Delhi, intellectual property law students last week Tuesday. This is the text record of that presentation and the questions asked by the students. Especially the questions are incredibly worthwhile looking at because many of them illustrate well the philosophical problems of copyright today.

Today the European Commission is gathering its European Multi-Stakeholders Platform on ICT Standardisation to discuss issue on ICT and Standardisation issues in Europe.

Acum două zile am fost la o conferință organizață la București de Eurosfat și Europuls la Palatul Parlamentului în cadrul anului cetățenia europeană, privind reforma sistemului european de protecție și securitate a datelor. A fost și colegii mei Adina-Ioana Vălean și Renate Weber (amândouă de la grupul liberal în parlament) și Ioan Enciu, de la grupul socialdemocrat. Am venit cu Cristian Bulumac, fostul meu practicant de la Bruxelles, și alt tip de la partidul pirați în România.