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by Gisle Hannemyr  (Oslo, Norway)
Author, speaker, and consultant.
Teacher, researcher and lecturer at "Institute of Informatics at the University of Oslo".
Member of the "Norwegian Creative Commons working group".


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Gisle Hannemyr is an independent author, speaker, and consultant on Internet usability and design. He is currently teaching and pursuing resarch interests at Institute of Informatics at the University of Oslo, where he is a lecturer (lektor). He is also a member of the Norwegian Creative Commons working group. His current research interests are power and democracy, e-commerce, computer security, computers and law, information architecture, distributed multimedia, standards and open systems, free software, open access, information infrastructure, and resource discovery in large information spaces. He has authored and contributed to several books about technology. His latest books are Hva er Internett (Universitetsforlaget 2005), and Sammensatte tekster (Cappelen Damm 2009).

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