Birgitta Jónsdóttir

JonsdottirBirgitta Jónsdóttir is an Icelandic Poetician and is currently serving as a member of the Icelandic Parliament for the Pirate Party of which she is one of the founders. Birgitta is also the founder and Chairperson of the International Modern Media Institute, better known as IMMI. She specializes in lawmaking for the 21st century.

She has worked as a volunteer and activist for various organizations including WikiLeaks, Saving Iceland, and Friends of Tibet in Iceland. She carries on being an activist in Parliament, a Poet and a Pirate. Birgitta organized Iceland’s first online broadcast in 1996, was the first female Icelandic web developer and has worked as a publisher in cyberspace for Beyond Borders since 1995.