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At the EDRi General Assembly of 25 October 2008 in Wien, Austria, EDRi welcomed 3 new members.

Electronic Frontier Norway (EFN) is a Norwegian civil liberties and digital rights organization working to protect and promote freedom of expression, privacy, the use of open standards and media file formats, public access to online resources and information, democratic IT infrastructures. The IT-Political Association of Denmark (IT-Pol) is a very active organization focusing on various issues, such as privacy, infrastructure security, open standards, software patents, DRM and copyright, e-voting or RFID. Vrijschrift is a Dutch foundation that stimulates free and open software and knowledge with projects ranging from supporting the Openstreetmap and Gutenberg projects to providing an umbrella for translators of open source software, OOXML and IPRED2. EDRI now has 29 members that are based or have offices in 18 different European countries, all within the territory of the Council of Europe.

After the General Assembly, all the participant EDRi members were present at the Big Brother Awards Austria 2008 where Meryem Marzouki received the Positive Prize "Defensor Libertatis" for her work in the digital civil rights movement, including her active participation within EDRi and her involvement in the campaign against the French law on Edvige.

Big Brother Austria 2008 Prizes (only in German)
http://www.bigbrotherawards.at/2008/Preistraeger

Electronic Frontier Norway (EFN)
http://www.efn.no

The IT-Political Association of Denmark (IT-Pol)
http://www.itpol.dk

Vrijschrift (Netherlands)
http://www.vrijschrift.org/

EDRI members and observers
http://www.edri.org/about/members