Gunnar Grímsson from Iceland is the founder of Better News who has done groundbreaking work in electronic democracy and online participation, starting in Iceland and expanding into numerous other countries. As CEO and co-founder of the Citizens Foundations he received numerous awards in Iceland and internationally, consulting, giving lectures and leading workshops on numerous facets of on-line collaboration. Gunnar is now focused on designing and raising money to realize Better News which is an online community for crowd-sourcing our news in a new and revolutionary way which will help us regain our trust in our news and each other.