German name Anti PowerPoint Partei President Matthias Poehm Founded 2011 | French and Italian name Parti Anti PowerPoint Founder Matthias Poehm | |
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The Anti PowerPoint Party (APPP) is a Swiss political party dedicated to decreasing professional use of Microsoft PowerPoint and other presentation software, which the party claims "causes national-economic damage amounting to 2.1 billion CHF" and lowers the quality of a presentation in "95 % of the cases". The party advocates flip charts as an alternative to presentation software.
APPP was formed by former software engineer Matthias Poehm ahead of the 2011 federal elections in Switzerland. The party's goal is to become the fourth largest party in Switzerland in terms of membership, and to initiate a national "referendum in order to seek for a prohibition of PowerPoint [and other presentation software] during presentations." APPP states that it does not support prohibition, but will use a referendum to raise awareness about the cause.