Great news! Netroots Nation is proud to announce Lawrence Lessig as one of our keynote speakers for this year's conference.

Professor Lessig, who has been called one of the "leading minds in tech" and open-source democracy by the American Prospect, is the founder of Creative Commons, and spent years working to make sure that as the rules of the Internet got written, they were written in a way that put power in the hands of regular people. He advanced his ideas through numerous books, articles and blog posts. Respected worldwide, he is one of the true luminaries of the Internet.

Lessig's work knows no labels. In 2007, he successfully worked with numerous members of the progressive Netroots, right-of-center blogs like RedState and others to get CNN, NBC and ABC to liberate their presidential debate videos so that anyone could post clips on YouTube legally.

And last year, Lessig announced that his future work would take a new direction: using technology to empower citizens against government corruption.

We knew we had to get Professor Lessig to come to Netroots Nation. So we did.

We are thrilled that Professor Lessig will give a keynote presentation to the Netroots Nation convention about his his non-partisan reform initiative to fight corruption. We couldn't be more excited to have such a true technology pioneer join us to address one of the prevailing political issues of our time.

The conference is July 17-20 in Austin, TX. So if you haven't registered, now's the time!

See you in Austin!

 NN 2008, Speakers