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Jean-Baptiste Soufron
Jean-Baptiste Soufron in 2010
Born (1978-04-06) 6 April 1978 (age 46)Bordeaux, France
Occupation lawyer

Jean-Baptiste Soufron (born 6 April 1978) is a lawyer and writer in Bordeaux, France. He has been an advisor to the French government and the former general secretary of the French National Digital Council (2012–2015).

Soufron graduated from La Sorbonne. He translated The Future of Ideas, a book by Lawrence Lessig into French. He was a consultant for free software and open source companies in 2006.[1]

In 2002, he was a co-founder of and the lawyer for Ligue Odebi, a collective dedicated to defend French internet users in front of the LCEN and DAVDSI bills. In 2004, he was a co-founder of and the lawyer for Audionautes, a nonprofit dedicated to defend internet users threatened by the music industry.

In 2003, he was one of the two lawyer of Jiraf (le Jeu et son Industrie Rassemble leurs Acteurs Français), a nonprofit French association created to find a solution to save the French video games industry at the people level.

In 2004, he was a co-founder of Wikimedia France, the French chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation[2][_circular reference_].

In 2006, during the presidential campaign, he worked with Michel Rocard as one of the authors of the Republic 2.0 report[3] for Ségolène Royal.

He was involved in Wikipedia from the beginning of the project, helping with legal matters before becoming lead legal coordinator[4] and then the chief legal officer of the Wikimedia Foundation[5] (2006–2008).

In 2010, Soufron was the director of the think tank of Cap Digital.[6] He has been writing on open innovation and digital culture in Esprit,[7] and on Internet politics in Dissent.[8] He founded several startups such as Amusement Magazine[9] and the review website nonfiction.fr.[10] As a journalist,[11] he co-hosted the live shows Minuit/Dix and Le Rendez-Vous on France Culture radio.

In 2012, he worked with Fleur Pellerin, an advisor of candidate François Hollande, on the digital economy.

In 2012, after the presidential election, he became the senior advisor on digital economy of the cabinet of the Ministry of Small & Medium-Sized Businesses and Digital Economy.

From 2012 to 2015, he was the general secretary of Conseil national du numérique.

In 2015, he became a partner at the law firm FWPA Avocats in Paris.

Jean-Baptiste is regularly featured in the press and has a blogs in English and French.

He has published several public reports.

In 2005, for ETSI, he published a report on open source impacts on ICT standardization.

In 2007, for Ségolène Royal, he published the report Republic 2.0[12] under the direction of Michel Rocard.

In 2008, for Terra Nova, he published a report on the French HADOPI Law.[13]In 2017, again for Terra Nova, he published a report on electoral fraud online.[14]

In 2018, once again for Terra Nova, he published a report on fake news.[15][16]

He has also participated in several books, including in 2005, when he published the French translation of The Future of Ideas[17] by Lawrence Lessig.

In 2011, he published La révolution libertarienne des monnaies virtuelles[18] in Au-delà de la crise financière,[19] under the direction of Carine Dartiguepeyrou.

In 2012, he published 80 propositions qui ne coûtent pas 80 milliards,[20] under the direction of Patrick Weil.

In April 2020, he co-published the forum entitles "StopCovid est un projet désastreux piloté par des apprentis sorciers" in Le Monde newspaper with sociologist Antonio Cassili and mathematician Paul-Olivier Dehaye, in which the authors claim that the French government is not authorized to consider treatment that will be made of this sensitive information resulting from COVID-19 contact tracing apps[21]

  1. ^ « Building a New IP Marketplace », Jean-Baptiste Soufron, IBM GIO 2.0, septembre 2006, page 2.
  2. ^ fr:Wikimédia France
  3. ^ Republic 2.0 report
  4. ^ Election in 2005
  5. ^ Wikimedia Foundation Resolutions
  6. ^ (in French) Jean-Baptiste Soufron, Directeur du programme Think Digital Archived 2011-03-17 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "Les acrobates de l'innovation | Revue Esprit".
  8. ^ "Dissent - Internet innovation".
  9. ^ (in French) Abdel Bounane et Jean-Baptiste Soufron lancent le premier magazine haut de gamme dédié aux jeux vidéos. Archived 2008-06-21 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ nonfiction.fr
  11. ^ description of Jean-Baptiste Soufron on France Culture website
  12. ^ http://www.ict-21.ch/ICT.SATW.CH/IMG/RapportRocard-2.pdf [_bare URL PDF_]
  13. ^ "La loi " création sur Internet ", un texte coupé de toute réalité | Terra Nova".[_permanent dead link_]
  14. ^ a report on electoral fraud online
  15. ^ "Fake news et triche électorale en ligne : Le nouveau territoire des campagnes numériques | Terra Nova".
  16. ^ "" StopCovid est un projet désastreux piloté par des apprentis sorciers "". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2020-04-25. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  17. ^ The Future of Ideas
  18. ^ La révolution libertarienne des monnaies virtuelles
  19. ^ Au-delà de la crise financière
  20. ^ 80 propositions qui ne coûtent pas 80 milliards
  21. ^ "" StopCovid est un projet désastreux piloté par des apprentis sorciers "". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2020-04-25. Retrieved 2020-04-25.