Michel Lambert
General manager at eQualitie, a Canadian organization whose mission is the development of open source technologies aiming at protecting online rights, Michel Lambert is engaged in various initiatives supporting Civil Society organization’s rights to engage securely over the Internet.
He has launched several projects using technologies starting from the Quebec Center for Alternative Media in 2000, Civil Society internet portals in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2002) and in the Maghreb-Mashreq (2007), and digital security schools in Montreal and Tunis. More recently he contributed to launching the LabDelta initiative. Also active on Internet governance issues, Michel was a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Progressive Communications between 2017 and 2020, then a founding member of the Canadian Internet Governance Forum . He has contributed to multiples GISWatch issues. He’s also engaged with Isoc-Quebec.
Active on the issues of international solidarity, he was the President of the Quebec Association of International Cooperation NGOs (AQOCI) from 2017 to 2020 and was involved with various Quebec and Canadian coalitions including: Pas de démocratie sans voix, Voices/voix, the Quebec network of continental integration (RQIC), the Common Front for Energy Transition and more recently, contributed to founding the Cultiver Montréal network..
Previously, he has been member of the Boards of Food Secure Canada between 2009 and 2012, Alliance Syndicats Tiers -Monde between 2015 and 2020 and the International Council of the World Social Forum. Co-founder in 1994, then Executive Director of the solidarity organization Alternatives between 2007 and 2020, Michel Lambert played an important role in planning and organizing the People’s Social Forum held in Ottawa in August 2014.
