Sunil Abraham
Sunil Abraham is an Indian technology policy analyst and free software advocate, and is an endowed professor at ArtEZ University of Arts. He is former Executive Director of the Centre for Internet and Society. He is a board member of Open Society Foundation. and an honorary steward at Shuttleworth Foundation.Career
In 1998, Abraham founded Mahiti, a company providing low-cost software services to the voluntary sector, where he continues to serve as a board member. Abraham was elected as an Ashoka Fellow in 1999, and received the Sarai FLOSS Fellowship in 2003.
He managed the United Nation's International Open Source Network from 2004 to 2007.
In 2008, he co-founded the Centre for Internet and Society, a non-profit research organisation based in India.Views
Abraham has spoken in favour of greater online free speech, digital privacy, and net neutrality., He has criticized some of the aspects of Aadhaar, the biometric-based unique identity system of India. He was an early proponent for a data protection law for India.
