Congratulations to the 16th Board of PPI!
Congratulations to the 16th Board of PPI!
Yesterday, January 10th 2026, we held our General Assembly. For the first time since 2018, we held an on site GA meeting. We had traditionally rotated between hybrid and on site meetings, until COVID forced all of our meetings online.
The following individuals were elected as board members: Sebastian Krone (PPDE), Carlos Polo (PPCH), and Grigorii Dizer (PPRU),
The following individuals were elected as alternate board members: Lilia Kayra Kuuymcu (PPDE), Numero6 (PPDE), Bart Overkamp (PPNL), and Thomas Gaul (PPDE).
These individuals will serve 2 year terms, nad they will join the existing board members who have one year left on their term.
You can read the minutes of the meeting here: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_GA_Minutes_2026-01-10
The opening keynote was delivered by Lilia Kayra Kuuymcu, Chair of the Pirate Party of Germany. She emphasized the importance of international Pirate cooperation at a time when digital freedoms are increasingly under threat.
We heard reports from the board, treasurer, court of arbitration, and lay auditors. Over the course of the prior year PPI was quite active with 58 published blogs and 2 published UN statements. We also for the first time in several years (again due to COVID) sent representatives to all three United Nations offices in Geneva, Vienna, New York. We also organized a workshop at the Internet Governance Forum in Oslo.
We approved a number of policies, including the reestablishment of a Working Group on AI and setting up a dedicated social media channel for discussions with our members about future policies and a policy and a motion on “Solidarity with the Iranian Freedom Movement and Against Selective Censorship in Digital Rights Advocacy”.
We also approved the following motion: “The General Assembly accepts the voting rights of all members who are present”. This motion recognizes that everyone who is a member of PPI can participate, regardless of their ability to pay membership dues. We hope this will encourage membership of Pirate parties that are not currently PPI members and to reinvigorate participation of smaller parties.
Good luck to us all in 2026!
