![]() Upon his departure, Doctorow was named a Fellow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. ĭoctorow later relocated to London and worked as European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation for four years, helping to establish the Open Rights Group, before leaving the EFF to pursue writing full-time in January 2006. The company was sold to the Open Text Corporation of Waterloo, Ontario during the summer of 2003. In June 1999, he co-founded the free software P2P company Opencola with John Henson and Grad Conn. In 1992, Doctorow went on a volunteer visit to Costa Rica with Youth Challenge International (YCI), which he found "profoundly good and profoundly enriching". He later served on the board of directors for the Grindstone Island Co-operative in Big Rideau Lake in Ontario. ![]() He received his high school diploma from the SEED School, and attended four universities without attaining a degree. ![]() Born in Toronto, Canada, Doctorow describes his parents as "techno-utopians" and "sort of quasi-doctrinaire Trotskyist school teachers." His father was born in a refugee camp in Azerbaijan, and Doctorow became involved with nuclear disarmament activism and as a Greenpeace campaigner as a child.
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