Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa to speak at The Internet Days
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021, is one of the keynote speakers at the The Internet Days conference.
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The Swedish Internet Foundation and Afnic extends their collaborative Zonemaster project until 2022
Zonemaster is a software package that validates the quality of a DNS delegation. It was developed via a collaborative project between the Swedish Internet Foundation and our French counterpart Afnic. The sole purpose of Zonemaster is to create a stronger and more secure domain name system. The service is developed as a free software and available to the general public.
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Carl Piva appointed new CEO of the Swedish Internet Foundation
Carl Piva appointed new CEO of the Swedish Internet Foundation, an independent, business-driven and non-profit organization, effective April 6, 2021.
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Danny Aerts resigns as CEO of The Swedish Internet Foundation next year
Danny Aerts, CEO of The Swedish Internet Foundation, has informed the foundation's board that he will resign as CEO in August 2021. The work of recruiting a new CEO begins immediately.
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The Swedish Internet Foundation acquires leading company in open data
The Swedish Internet Foundation is buying the majority in the software company MetaSolutions, which has developed cloud-based software that helps companies and organizations publish and manage linked and open data. The company was founded in 2011 by computer scientists Matthias Palmér and Hannes Ebner.
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Loopia acquires .SE Direkt from The Swedish Internet Foundation
Loopia buys the Swedish Internet Foundation's registrar business .SE Direkt. As of mid-February, .SE Direkt's customers will have Loopia as registrar for their domains.
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More and more people are becoming active and discussing politics online - but fear of online hate speech is silencing many of us
71 percent of Swedes turn to the Internet for political information, one in five people have expressed a political opinion online and 15 percent have participated in a hashtag campaign like #metoo in the past year. These are the findings in The Swedish Internet Foundation In Sweden's new report, "Swedes and Internet - Valsspecial 2018". At the same time, the report also shows that a quarter of Swedes have refrained from expressing a political opinion on the Internet due to the fear of hate speech and threats.
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The Swedish Internet Foundation is investing 2 Million SEK in Peppy Pals
Peppy Pals is a global game and development company that makes apps, books and films where children learn about feelings, empathy and friendship through storytelling and humor. As part of the work to support newly-launched Swedish internet companies, The Swedish Internet Foundation is now investing in the company.
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The Swedish Internet Foundation is investing 1 Million SEK in the Foo Café meeting place
The Foo Café was founded in 2012 in Malmö and is a meeting place for developers. Since its beginning, the business has grown to Stockholm and currently the Foo Café has an average of eight events per week. The Swedish Internet Foundation’s investment is part of the work to support newly launched Swedish internet companies.
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The internet habits of Swedes in the report Swedes and the internet 2017
Half of Swedish internet users pay for music and film, young people are more skeptical about information online than adults, 100 percent of those up to age 25 are watching YouTube and in two-year olds, four out of five already use the internet. This is just some of the news in the report “Swedes and the internet 2017” from The Swedish Internet Foundation. The survey has been ongoing since the year 2000 and is Sweden’s largest study of digital trends and how we use the internet.
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