Gisle Hannemyr

Gisle Hannemyr (born July 3 1953) is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Informatics, University of Oslo.

In 1991, he was co-founder of the first commercial internet service provider in Norway, Oslonett, which later, being acquired by Schibsted, became Schibsted Nett ("SN"), and Scandinavia Online ("Sol"). He has later co-founded other Internet-related businesses.

Through books, articles and regular columns in the press, he has been active in describing and explaining not only the internet, but also hacker culture to the public. In the public eye, he is regarded as Norway's foremost net guru and evangelist, and is the primary spokesperson for free software, free media formats and open net usage in Norwegian media.

In 2002 he was awarded the Norwegian Computer Society's Rosing Academy's "Rosing's Honour Award", and in 2003, a vote among the Norwegian members of First Tuesday (an association of entrepreneurs and investors) declared him "Internet personality of the decade".

External links

* [http://folk.uio.no/gisle/ Home page]
* [http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_2/gisle/ "Technology and Pleasure: Considering Hacking Constructive"]
* [http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=59722 "Gisle Hannemyr, internet person of the decade"] (in Norwegian)
* [http://www.digi.no/php/art.php?id=68941 "Rosing-honours to Gisle Hannemyr"] (in Norwegian)