Märt Põder

Märt Põder (born 11 September 1979) is an Estonian philosopher, freedom of information activist, presenter, publicist and translator.

Paul McLaughlin, Moral education from the point of view of ethical theory, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tartu.

[14] In the 2014 European Parliament elections, he participated in the campaign of the independent candidate Silver Meikar as an employee of his future office responsible for information society issues.

[15] He has been a member of two boards of the Estonian Pirate Party in a row, and the exponent of the association's core values of kopim, openness and dispersion.

[17] Põder has been involved in e-voting,[18] e-democracy[19][20][21] and open data[22] campaigns and has spoken out to protect anonymity and privacy on the internet.

[23][24] He was one of the initiators of the Estonian anti-ACTA movement at the end of 2011, translating and preparing a brochure which, during a guerilla action, pushed the campaign into motion after being shoved on the table of members of the Riigikogu.

[31][32] In the spring of 2016, together with artists interested in remix culture, he initiated a project with the aim of introducing copyright-free music events in order to develop an event format suitable for playing music with Creative Commons and other licenses favoring creative freedom, together with an appropriate remuneration model for authors.

[24] He has been the porter and publisher of Estobuntu,[34][35] led various projects in the Ubuntu and Debian ecosystems,[36][37] and coordinated the translation of software for these operating systems.

[38] He maintained an upgraded version of the ID card software for Ubuntu in 2010,[39] in 2012 he led the freeware community's negotiations with the Ministry of Economy and Communications to package the ID software according to the requirements of Linux ecosystems,[40] and has highlighted problems with the technical implementation of digital signatures at the ministry level.

Märt Põder at the Data as Remedy hackathon in 2017
Märt Põder at Narva Arvamusfestival in 2016.