Smári McCarthy
Smári McCarthy is an Icelandic/Irish innovator and activist. He is a co-founder and board member of the Icelandic Digital Freedoms Society (FSFÍ)[1] and a participant in the Global Swadeshi movement. He was the spokesperson and one of the organizers of the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative.[2] He has spoken at Oekonux and has been keynote speaker at FSCONS.
He proposed the Shadow Parliament Project,[3][4] a project intending to "crowdsource democracy". The project launched Skuggaþing (Icelandic for "shadow parliament") in early 2010.[5]
He has written on technology, anarchism, and Icelandic culture at Yaxic.org and Anarchism.is. He is also an active member of the digital fabrication movement, having operated a fab lab in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland,[6] and worked with Fab Labs elsewhere, including Jalalabad, Afghanistan.[7]
