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Nominations are Now Open for the 2021 Barlows
to be Presented at the Pioneer Award Ceremony
Update 7/1/21: Nominations are currently open.
Here's your chance to nominate your favorite digital rights luminary for a 2021 Barlow! This year’s winners will join an esteemed group of past award winners that includes the visionary activist Aaron Swartz, global human rights and security researchers The Citizen Lab, open-source pioneer Limor "Ladyada" Fried, and whistle-blower Chelsea Manning, among many remarkable journalists, entrepreneurs, public interest attorneys, and others.
What is a Barlow? EFF dedicated our annual Pioneer Award Ceremony to Internet visionary, Grateful Dead lyricist, and EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow, who left the analog world on February 7, 2018. His dedication to online freedom led to a decades-long movement of Internet activism that shows no sign of stopping. From 2018 onward, recipients are awarded a “Barlow," previously known as the Pioneer Awards, in recognition of the spirit that ignited EFF and left an indelible mark on this connected world.