Website www.kasvi.org Name Jyrki Kasvi | Role Finnish Politician Party Green League | |
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Born January 6, 1964 (age 60) ( 1964-01-06 ) Pyhtaa, Finland Occupation Finnish MP representing the Green League Profiles | ||
Global IGF 2010: Jyrki Kasvi
Jyrki Jouko Juhani Kasvi (born in Pyhtää, Finland on January 6, 1964) is a Finnish politician. He has been a member of the Finnish Parliament, representing the Green League. In the Parliament he was most active in the Committee for the Future, which he represented in the European Parliamentary Technology Assessment network (EPTA), related to technology assessment. He was first elected to the Parliament in 2003, re-elected for a second term in 2007, and lost his seat in the election of 2011. He was again elected in 2015. He has also been, among other things, a member of the city council of Espoo since 1997 and the second vice-president of the International Parliamentarians' Association for Information Technology (IPAIT) since 2004.
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Kasvi has a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology. He has written several books about computers and information society. Kasvi is married to the opera singer Maria Boman and they have one child, Ilmari (b. 1994). Kasvi has been the editor in chief of Kosmoskynä, the magazine of Finnish Science Fiction Writer's Association, a games reviewer in the computer magazine MikroBitti and a columnist in the computer games magazine Pelit, under the pseudonym Wexteen the Wizard. An avid fan of Star Trek, he added a Klingon version of his campaign re-election website in 2007.
Kasvi's surname means "plant" in Finnish.