[1]^ Primavera De Filippi is a researcher at the CERSA / CNRS / Université Paris II and currently a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where she is investigating the legal issues of decentralized online architectures. Primavera is the legal expert for Creative Commons France and a coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation.
[2]^ Félix Tréguer is PhD candidate in political studies at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (CRH / EHESS) in Paris, researching on the consequences of the Internet for free speech and citizen empowerment in democratic regimes. He is also a legal analyst and founding member of La Quadrature du Net, an advocacy group promoting fundamental rights on the Internet.
[3]^ On very-fast broadband roll-out, our interviewees also pointed to the need to reorient both public and private investments in fiber-optic last-mile networks where they are most needed, that is in rural communities where decent broadband is crucially lacking, rather than in already well-connected urban areas where there is usually less demand for higher speeds. They also called on regulators to better coordinate so that any public work being carried to roll-out fiber-optic cables that can then be used to expand and improve Internet access.