Education
Poot studied business administration in Breukelen and medicine in Sint Eustatius.
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Dirk Poot
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Poot was the lijsttrekker of the Dutch Pirate Party for the Dutch parliamentary elections in 2012 and fourth on the list for the Pirate Party in the 2010 Dutch parliamentary elections. He currently resides close to Breda in the Netherlands. Poot is a self-employed computer programmer, focusing on medical and education software.
He has previously worked as a physician.
He has been blogging about democracy, privacy, and medical issues since 2005. He has written about collection and storage of sensitive information in government databases, in particular the Electronic Patient Record (EPR).
Dutch Pirate Party
Poot has been active with the Pirate Party since late 2009. He was fourth on the list for the Pirate Party in the 2010 Dutch parliamentary elections.
In the 2012 parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, he was the first candidate of the Dutch Pirate Party.
Politics
He joined the party after discovering it through IRC while blogging about Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
Membership
When he was younger, Poot was a member of the Jongerenorganisatie Vrijheid en Democratie (JOVD), the youth organization of the main Dutch conservative party, the People"s Party for Freedom and Democracy (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratic (People's Party for Freedom and Democracy)). Since 2011, he has been a member of the board of the Dutch Pirate Party, and the board"s spokesperson since December 2011.
