Denis Simonet

Denis Simonet (2011)

Denis Simonet aka "SciFi" (b. Biel/Bienne, May 21, 1985^[1]) from Ipsach is a Swiss politician, and president of the Pirate Party Switzerland (PPS).^[2] He was reelected for a further period on December 5, 2009^[3] and February 19, 2011^[4].

Biography

Simonet, a founding member of his party, studied Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and switched to the Bern University of Applied Sciences. He is also a founding member of the Swiss Privacy Foundation.^[5] One of his hobbies is playing the piano. He released his two compositions on last.fm^[6] and composed the jingle for the independant podcast parrot.fm^[7]. He also acts as a reporter for parrot.fm.

Politics

Simonet participated in the cantonal elections of Bern 2010 on first position on the list "PIRATEN" in district Biel-Seeland and got 726 votes, which wasn't enough to gain a seat.^[8] At those elections Pirate Party Switzerland got 0.7% of all votes. At the national elections 2011 he was on list place 3 and got 4904 votes^[9]. Again Pirate Party Switzerland got 0.7% of all votes in the canton of Bern. Simonet owns a lobbyist passport for the federal parliament building which he got from Lukas Reimann, a national council of the political party "SVP".

From December 13, 2010 to December 24, 2010 Simonet wrote about digital policy for the well known newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung^[10] and for the IT Magazine "Netzwoche" he was interviewed as an expert on surveillance and privacy^[11]. In his own blog he often writes about digital policy, some posts were already overtaken by the students portal students.ch and the newspaper Tagesanzeiger^[12]. He is a member of the committee for more transparency in politics^[13] and fights against the reintroduction of fixed book prizes as a member of the committee against expensive books^[14].

Others

Simonet is the contact person of the domain name wikileaks.ch on which the wikileaks website has been transferred on December 3, 2010.^[15] The domain and redirection have been set up by Pirate Party Switzerland due to a board decision on June 8, 2010.^[16] At the founding assembly of Pirate Parties International^[17] he represented PPS as a delegate, together with Pascal Gloor.^[18]

References

1. ^ User profile, Simonet's Blog
2. ^ Präsident, Pirate Party Switzerland
3. ^ Denis Simonet präsidiert Piratenpartei, NZZ online, December 6, 2009.
4. ^ [1]
5. ^ Die Gründung der Swiss Privacy Foundation, The foundation of the Swiss Privacy Foundation on January 24, 2010 in Bremgarten
6. ^ First Compositions His compositions on last.fm.
7. ^ Hint in the Shownotes, official website of parrot.fm
8. ^ Official results of the Grossratswahlen Kanton Bern 2010
9. ^ Resultate der einzelnen Listen (gesamter Kanton), Website of the Canton of Bern
10. ^ Eine Digitalpolitik für die Schweiz
11. ^ "Nur Nudisten haben nichts zu verbergen", Netzwoche
12. ^ Das Desaster mit dem Pferd
13. ^ Piraten fordern transparentere Politik
14. ^ Co-Präsidium Buchpreisbindung-Referendum
15. ^ Switch
16. ^ Minutes
17. ^ Press release, Pirate Parties International
18. ^ Minutes, Board decision to send delegates to the conference.

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