BigBrotherAwards 2000

Rena Tangens is an artist, Internet pioneer and policy director of Digitalcourage. She co-founded Digitalcourage, then called FoeBuD, in 1987. She has received multiple awards for her work.

Rolf Gössner is a German lawyer, publicist, parliamentary advisor and civil rights activist. He is also a member of the German NGO “International League for Human Rights” (German name: Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte, ILFM). ILFM regards human rights as undivisible, unalienable, and universal. In their view the term “human rights” equally includes protections and participation rights on the civil-political, social, and cultural levels – irrespective of origin, gender, skin colour, religion, or politicial views. Rolf Gössner has been part of the BigBrotherAwards from the very start. After more than 20 years he retired from the jury in 2021.

padeluun is an artist, he is a co-founder and since 2024 the artistic lead of Digitalcourage. Digitalcourage works for a world worth living in the digital age, and since 2000, it organises the German Big Brother Awards in Bielefeld.

jockel is a social pedagogue and journalist and has been committed to civil rights since 1976. In 2000, jockel gave the award speech for Deutsche Bahn together with padeluun.

Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft (FITUG) creates connections to the virtual world of new media and data networks. The objectives of the association are to promote the integration of new media into society, to educate people about the techniques, risks and dangers of these media, and to safeguard human rights and consumer protection in computer networks. Patrick Goltzsch was a jury member in 2000–2002.

Thilo Weichert is a former data protection commissioner of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. Netzwerk Datenschutzexpertise (Network Data Protection Expertise) is an group of experts who analyse laws and technologies in depth. Deutsche Vereinigung für Datenschutz (DVD, German Association for Data Protection) is an independent civil rights association. Thilo Weichert is a board member of Digitalcourage since 2024.

When Sebastian Lisken joined the Digitalcourage IT admin team in 2017, he had already been a volunteer for many years as proofreader, translator and interpreter between German and British English. His voice is often heard in simultaneous interpretations for the Big Brother Awards and Chaos Computer Club events. He is both liked and feared for friendly pedantry in terms of language and logic. His other functions for Digitalcourage include networking with Europan contacts and software development.