PdF Europe 2010

October 4-5, 2010

The University of Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain

Tagline:

Mapping the Eurosphere

Briefing:

We are looking forward to meet new friends and talk with the old ones: this is a community and it is open to the contribution of every one. We hope to hear suggestions and opinions from you: keep in touch - we are just a click (and an email) away!

Description:

We came home from Barcelona but the conversation hasn’t stopped and we hope it will keep going on.

Some of the attendees said we are (ideally) building a movement.   PdF Europe speaker and friend Alberto Cottica explains what it feels like attending PdF:

Internet tech conferences are legion on this side of the Atlantic, but PdF Europe is a pretty unique place. Firstly, it is not dominated by business: tech corporations are there (Google is an important sponsor), but they take care not to upstage the activists and public servants that constitute the backbone of the PdF community. You don’t hear much about branding or marketing: this year’s hit was the story of how Croatian blogger Marko Rakar exposed electoral fraud in his country with a dataset on a couple of CDs, a hard look at raw data and his blog (he even got arrested for it).

PdF is a lot about building networks and, even more than this, a community. In the words of another speaker, Nicolas Vanbremeersch:

The network you can build is that of a common ground, a common practice. Something you do together, and people you can ask for expert advice, inspiration. It is Europe, after all : markets are still very national, and local political cultures make it a non-free market. But this network is powerful. The european youth moves from one country to another, and we know that, in the long term, a common european public space is going to happen. It will take time, but this small network is nice, friendly, a great source of help and inspiration. And some become friends. Which is nice.

Sessions:

Archived Agenda (Day One)

Time
Concourse
8:30-
9:30am
Registration and Networking Breakfast
 
Main Hall
9:30-
9:45am
Welcome Remarks,
with Andrew Rasiej, Micah Sifry, Marc Lopez
9:45-
10:05am
Re-imagining International Relations in a Networked Age,
with Alec Ross
10:05-
10:25am
Europe's Digital Agenda,
with Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau
10:25-
10:45am
Public Diplomacy Online,
with Jimmy Leach
10:45-
11:15am
Coffee Break
11:15-
11:25pm
Social Media and the European Parliament,
with Stephen Clark
11:25-
11:35am
Refunite: Connecting the Unconnected - Refugee Family Tracing Online,
with Christopher Mikkelsen
11:35-
11:45am
Crisis Commons: Networked Action in Disaster Relief,
with Andy Carvin
11:45-
11:55am
Media Viruses and the Immune System of Democracy,
with Nicolas Vanbremeersch
11:55-
12:05pm
Speech, Censorship and Social Media,
with Matthias Klang
12:05-
12:15pm
Do's and Don'ts of Political Blogging,
with Bente Kalsnes
12:15-
12:25pm
Crowdsourcing and Mapping Your Activist Base,
with Romain Liberge
12:25-
12:35pm
Lobbying 2.0: Using Social Media to Make Your Case,
with Massimo Micucci
12:35-
12:45pm
Using Twitter to Map Political Influence,
with Guilhem Fouetillou
12:45-
12:55pm
The Life of A Networked Politician,
with Marietje Schaake
12:55-
1:00pm
Closing Summary,
with Jon Worth
1:00-
2:00pm
Lunch
2:00-
3:00pm
Breakout A
Sponsored by the Government of Catalonia
Breakout B
Open Data/Open Government:
John Wonderlich, Håkon Wium Lie, Antti Poikola, Alvaro Ortiz, Micah Sifry (moderator)
Online Political Organizing in National Campaigns:
Julius van de laar, Martin Gelin, Guilhem Fouetillou, Ketil Raknes, Antonella Napolitano (moderator)
Breakout C
Breakout D
The Internet, Human Rights and Responsibilities in the 21st Century:
Matthias Klang, Ernesto Belisario, Jeremie Zimmermann, Ronny Patz, (moderator)
Future of the Media:
Lukas Peyer, Ides Debruyne, Brigitta Jonsdottir, Bente Kalsnes (moderator)
Breakout E
How to Build a Local Changemaker Community:
Alvaro Martin Cid and Julio Gonzalez of NetSquared Madrid
3:00-
3:45pm
Coffee Break
3:45-
4:45pm
Breakout A
Sponsored by the Government of Catalonia
Breakout B
Transparency and Open Information in Central and Eastern Europe:
Marko Rakar, Dejan Milovac, Solana Larsen. Stephen King (moderator)
Online Political Organizing in Regional and Local Campaigns:
Nicholas Vanbremeersch, Dino Amenduni, Andreas Jungherr, Mayor Lluis Recorder, Antonella Napolitano (moderator)
Breakout C
Breakout D
Sponsored by Fleishman Hillard
Crisis Response:
Andy Carvin, Randi Zuckerberg, Jimmy Leach, Nick Judd (moderator)
The New EU Petition Scheme: How Powerful (Or Not) Are One Million Signatures?:
MEP Marietje Schaake, Julius van de Laar, Jon Worth, David Lowey (moderator)
Breakout E
Open Cities/Smarter Cities:
John Tolva, Xavier Crouan, Dominic Campbell, Jens Steensma, and Andrew Rasiej (moderator)
 
Main Hall
4:45-
5:15pm
The Icelandic Modern Media Initiative,
with Birgitta Jonsdottir
5:15-
6:15pm
Two views on the Internet and democratization,
with Evgeny Morozov, Jeremy Heimans
6:15pm
Cocktail Party for all attendees

Archived Agenda (Day Two)

Time
Concourse
8:00-
9:00am
Networking Breakfast
 
Main Hall
9:00-
9:30am
Facebook and Peace: Friends Across Conflict Zones,
with Randi Zuckerberg
9:30-
10:00am
Transnational Networking for a Free Internet ,
with Jeremie Zimmerman and Stefan Henniwig
10:00-
10:30am
Coffee Break
10:30-
10:40am
Opening Up Policy-Making to Public Participation,
with Paul Johnston
10:40-
10:50am
All Out, Building an Online Movement for LGBT Equality,
with Andre Banks
10:50-
11:00am
Online Video for Human Rights: Challenges and Opportunities,
with Jenni Wolfson
11:00-
11:20am
How Open Data is Making Cities Smarter ,
with John Tolva
11:20-
11:40am
The Power of Transparency in the Balkans,
with Marko Rakar
11:45-
12:45pm
Breakout A
Sponsored by the Government of Catalonia
Breakout B
Transparency and Open Information in the US and Western Europe:
David Moore, Doru Frantescu, Ronny Patz, Helen Darbishire, Jon Worth (moderator)
Transnational Organizing Using Online Video, Email and Social Networking:
Andre Banks, David Babbs, Jenni Wolfson and Lene Pettersen (moderator)
Breakout C
Sponsored by Telefonica
Breakout D
Sponsored by Public-i
Public Services 2.0:
Karina Tellinger, Antti Poikkola, Marta Continente, Bruno Vilarasau, Dominic Campbell, (moderator)
Europetitions:
Creating and Managing Petitions Across Borders and Across Cultures:
Reindr Rustma, Laia Pujol, Catherine Howe (moderator)
Breakout E
 
12:45-
1:45pm
Networking Lunch
 
Main Hall
1:50-
2:00pm
Can Social Media Make More Democracy For Everybody?,
with Lene Pettersen
2:00-
2:10pm
Scaling Wiki Government: European Governance Saved by Local Heroes,
with Alberto Cottica
2:10-
2:30pm
The Power and Promise of Open Data,
with Håkon Wium Lie
2:30-
3:00pm
The Coming Age of We.Government,
with Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry
3:00pm
Closing Coffee/Cava Party