Birgitta Jonsdottir is a poetian currently serving as a Member of Parliament in Icelandic Parliament for The Pirate Party. She was first elected in April 2009 on behalf of a political movement she helped create aiming for democratic reform via direct democracy, transparancy and accountability. She co-created the Pirate Party in Iceland in 2012.
She was the chief sponsor for IMMI – the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, tasking successfully the Icelandic government to make Iceland a safe haven for freedom of Information. She is now a chairperson for the International Modern Media Institute.
Birgitta has been an activist and a spokesperson for various groups, such as WikiLeaks, Saving Iceland and Friends of Tibet in Iceland.
Birgitta has served in the Foreign Affairs Committee, Environmental Committee, General Committee, Joint EU/Iceland Committee, Parliamentary Commitee for the special report in relation to the Icelandic financial crisis, Iceland delegation to the IPU and in the Nato Parliamentary Assembly.
Read her poem :
I am poetician
I am hacker
I am life hacking
I am hacking habitat
I am hacking systems
I am hacking me
I hack hack hack
into the roots of the crumbling systems
I am helping the system collapse
from its own weight
I am planting seeds
ideas
thoughts
creating new structures
I am planting
me
into this
moment
with you
we hack
bleeding red code into the all embracing algorithmic eye.
