Dear Friends of the Pirate Community, PPI is heading again to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), this time in Norway. The IGF is a UN event that brings together a large number of governments and non-profit organizations. PPI has attended the IGF for about 10 years now. As part of our effort to attend the event, we are conducting a fundraiser to collect up to […]
Board Meeting Review and Upcoming Meetings
Ahoy Pirates, Our next PPI board meeting will take place on 24.06.2025 at 20:00 UTC / 22:00 CEST. Prior to that meeting on Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 14:00 UTC in the same Jitsi board room, we will hold a special IGF SCUBA working group meeting. All official PPI proceedings, Board meetings included, are open to the public. Feel free to stop by. We’ll be happy […]
Resilience in Germany: A Fragile State of Preparedness
Germany’s ability to ensure societal resilience has significantly declined in recent decades according to political scientist and PPI alternate board member Schoresch Davoodi. In a working paper, he warns that political complacency and socio-economic mismanagement expose the country to multifaceted vulnerabilities. Germany celebrated the stability of the 1990s and early 2000s without preparing for the disruptive forces of digital transformation, globalization, and geopolitical shifts. The […]
June PPI Meetings
Ahoy Pirates, Our next PPI board meeting will take place on 03.06.2025 at 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST. Prior to that meeting we will hold a SCENE and SCUBA working groups meeting in the same Jitsi room a week later, 10.06.2025 at 19:00 UTC / 21:00 CEST. All official PPI proceedings, Board meetings included, are open to the public. Feel free to stop by. We’ll […]
PPI Workshop on Networking Ethics Accepted at IGF on June 23rd in Norway
PPI is heading again to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), this time in Norway. The IGF is a UN event that brings together a large number of governments and non-profit organizations. PPI has attended the IGF for about 10 years now. Our workshop entitled “Ethical Networking: Sustainability and Accountability” will be on June 23rd at 16:15 in Workshop Room 2, Hall C. The entire event […]
May 2025 Meeting Announcements
Ahoy Pirates, Our next PPI board meeting will take place on 13.05.2025 at 20:00 UTC / 22:00 CEST. Prior to that meeting we will hold a SCENE and SCUBA working groups meeting in the same Jitsi room, so 13.05.2025 at 19:00 UTC / 21:00 CEST. All official PPI proceedings, Board meetings included, are open to the public. Feel free to stop by. We’ll be happy […]
Why is UNOV important for PPI?
Over almost a decade of UN activities, we have consistently attended events at the UN Headquarters in New York and the office in Geneva. Around 2019 we sent a few delegates to Vienna, but COVID ended most of our activities. This year we are making a new emphasis to network and lobby at UNOV, because a lot of very important global policies that are important […]
Happy 15th Birthday to Pirate Parties International! 🎉
Today, April 16th, 2025, we are proudly celebrating 15 remarkable years since the founding of Pirate Parties International. On this very day in 2010 Pirates from around the world gathered in Brussels for a 3 day conference which established an international office for Pirate parties around the world. As we celebrate our birthday, we’re reminded of the collective strength of our global movement. Over the […]
April 2025 Meeting Announcements
Ahoy Pirates, Our next PPI board meeting will take place on 22.04.2025 at 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST. All official PPI proceedings, Board meetings included, are open to the public. Feel free to stop by. We’ll be happy to have you. Where: https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board Agenda: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/agendadrafts-t42k09h We will also have a SCENE and other working groups meeting on 08.04.2025 at 19:00 UTC / 21:00 CEST. Where: […]
PPI Statement on the Destruction of Democracy Under President Trump
Pirate Parties International stands in solidarity with the people of the United States and our colleagues from the US Pirate Party. We respect the resilience of the American citizens and non-American citizens who live in fear during these challenging times. Since Trump has returned to power, we observe with growing concern the negative impacts his administration has had on the sacred values of our movement: […]
