Norwegian Public Sector FLOSS Pioneers

Denmark

• Morten Kjærsgaard, Chairman of the Danish Open Source Business Association

Finland

• Henri Bergius, Finnish Open Source hacker. Partner in the Open Source consultancy Nemein. Hacker on the Midgard project.
• Henrik Ingo, Finnish programmer and writer. Author of Open Life: The Philosophy of Open Source.
• Mikko Ahonen, Researcher at the University of Tampere's Hypermedia Laboratory
• Mikko Puhakka, early investor in MySQL; mover and shaker in the Nordic Open Source scene.
• Niklas Vainio, Researcher at the University of Tampere's Hypermedia Laboratory
• Petri Räsänen, Founder and Director of COSS (the Finnish Center for Open Source Solutions)
• Tere Vadén, Professor at the University of Tampere's Hypermedia Laboratory
• Ville Oksanen, Founder of the Electronic Frontier Finland

Iceland

Norway

• Fredrik Syversen, IKT Norge's Director of Industry Development
• Heidi Arnesen Austlid, Director of the Nasjonalt Kompetansesenter for Fri Programvare (Norwegian National Center for Free Software)
• Heidi Grande Røys, Minister of Government Administration and Reform.
• Tor-Arne Bellika, CEO of Innovation Performance AS and one of the driving forces behind the Open Innovation Center Project.

Public Sector

• Arild Raaen, Head of Municipality Central Administration, Kongsberg Municipality
• Bjørn Venn, the founding father of the Norwegian Competency Center on FLOSS and ICT strategist at Buskerud Regional Government.
• Britt Inger Kolseth, CIO Kongsberg Municipality.
• Line Richardsen, KS. member of the project team behind the FLOSS competency centre in Drammen and instrumental in the work to motivate Municipality CIOs to cooperate more and use FLOSS.
• Martin Hauge, Møre & Romsdal Fylkeskommune. CIO and key participant in forming the eKommune initiative owned by the Association of Norwegian Municipalities (KS).
• Tom Wahlegren, CIO, Sarpsborg Municipality

Sweden

• Mats Östling, from the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions
• Rickard Falkvinge, leader of the Swedish Pirate Party

Other Regions

• Stephe Walli Canadian FOSS networker deluxe and consultant-at-large (living in the U.S.). Stephe is doing some Nordic Electronic Frontier dev work with Mikko Puhakka.
• Zak Greant Canadian electronic frontierist. Founder of the Foo Associates electronic frontier consultancy and staff at the Mozilla Foundation. One of the driving forces behind the Open Innovation Center Project.