"I've been following the development of the ORGware architecture for some time, since Joi Ito introduced me to Britt at the time of the planning session which resulted in the O'Reilly Digital Democracy Teach-in. There's no question that politics - and democracy - need a platform like ORGware to make all the necessary activist tools available to the most casual, non-technical visitor to a campaign site. I am now advising a candidate for the President of France, which has reinforced my awareness of ORGware's promise.

"I'm happy to discuss the international potential for ORGware in more detail."

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Bio

Entrepreneur

• Executive VP & Managing Director of Europe, Six Apart, the Company behind TypePad and Movable Type
• Ublog.com, 2003-present, founder & CEO. A European blogging tool and host, acquired by Six Apart in June 2004.
• Tekora, 2000-2002, founder & CEO. An ASP driven websites
  publisher for small businesses, sold to Access-Commerce (a
  public French software company) and then spined-off and relaunched
  (now I am just a business angel) as a mobile enabled and friendly
  website publishing tool. Raised Û6,1M from ABN AMRO, BNP
  Paribas, Société Générale Asset
  Management and fd5.
• RapidSite France, 1996-1999, founder. Quickly became the #1
  small business shared web hosting company in France and sold to France Telecom that
  integrated it into its Wanadoo offer.
• B2L, 1996-1999,
  founder & CEO. One of the first web agencies launched in
  France. Clients included Chanel, Peugeot, 20th Century Fox
  and many other major brands. Sold to the leading advertising group BBDO.

Activist & Speaker

• World Economic Forum, Member & Advisory Board member of the GLT Community, speaker (2004
  European Economic Summit "Building a Business-Friendly Europe" (Video of the speech), 2004 Davos, "blogs
  and journalism", 2002 Davos, "the Future of Europe")
• Supernova 2004, speaker.
• Jury Member & Speaker at the French Venture Capital & Entrepreneurs event Capital-IT.
• "Maître de Conférences" at the French Business School HEC, HEC-Entrepreneurs.
• Jury President in 1999 of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival Cyber Lions.
• Jury Member of the 2000 Clio Awards.

Occasional author

• "Minding your own business. French entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur offers seven golden rules - for doing nothing", The Guardian, 2004.
• "La publicité sur Internet", Dunod, a book of the French Chapter of the Internet Advertising Bureau.

Some Press clips

• "At the Davos Conference, Small Fry With Big Dreams", by Erik Portanger, Wall Street Journal, 2004.
• "With bloggers inside, Davos secrets are out", by Thomas Crampton, International Herald Tribune, 2004.
• "Le Meur is a young man in a hurry who walks fast, talks fast, and starts businesses fast" in "The next French Revolution", by Cait Murphy, CNN, 2000.

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