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The Personal Democracy Forum was a conference that ran for over 15 years and took place in NYC, Europe and Central America.
The Freedom of Information Foundation is the first Russian NGO focused directly on the Freedom of Information and governmental transparency and accountability. The FIF have created a special ICT tool called Infometr – unique open code software able to motivate government bodies to align their official web sites in compliance with the current FOI legislation, international standards and experts’ opinion. Also the FIF has strategic and tactic litigation programs and FOI educational projects.
Taylor Jo Isenberg is the Managing Director of the Economic Security Project, a network of policymakers, academics, advocates, and communicators working to end poverty and rebuild a strong middle class through a guaranteed income. She was previously the Senior Advisor to the CEO & President and Vice President of the National Network at the Roosevelt Institute, an organization working to redefine the rules that guide our social and economic realities. Under her leadership, the National Network received the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, recognizing the Institute’s critical efforts to organize and pipeline the emerging generation of thinkers and doers. She serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for Scalawag, a media project advancing social justice through the South’s brightest thinkers, writers and activists. She is a proud graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Taylor Owen is Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia and a Senior Fellow at the Columbia Journalism School. He was previously the Research Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University where he designed and led a program studying the impact of digital technology on the practice of journalism. He is the founder and Editor of OpenCanada.org, an award-winning international affairs website and the Director of the International Relations and Digital Technology Projects, an international research project exploring the intersection of information technology and international affairs. He has previously held positions at Yale University, the London School of Economics and the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo. His PhD is from the University of Oxford, where he was a Trudeau Scholar. He is the author of Disruptive Power: The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age (OUP, 2015).
Ted Henderson is the creator of the congressional social network Cloakroom and the popular Hill voting app Capitol Bells. In 2011 Ted moved to Washington, D.C. to apply his background in engineering and climate change as a legislative aide on Capitol Hill. As a staffer for Rep. Dale Kildee (D-MI), he experienced the dysfunction in Congress from the inside. Recognizing the need for radical institutional reform, Ted left the House in 2013 to found Capitol Bells, Inc. with a Congress-first approach for bridging the growing disconnect between legislators and constituents.
A native of Lviv, Ukraine, Tetyana is a civil society development specialist with a passion for using innovative technology for democratic change. She has spent the last ten years working in former Soviet Union and beyond to promote legislative reforms, advocate for local issues and defend free and fair elections.
Since 2010, Tetyana has written extensively about social media developments and digital activism in Ukraine, covering Euromaidan and its aftermath for Global Voices and publishing research on social media and organizing.
Tetyana holds a Master’s Degree from the Free University of Berlin, where she researched impact of technology on social movements.
Thaís Marques is a Director with PowerLabs where she focuses on using digital tools and tactics to reach communities of color and immigrants and move them into action-oriented teams.
Prior to PowerLabs, Thaís led the digital program and student organizing at Movimiento Cosecha. While at Cosecha she developed new models for recruiting undocumented immigrants through social channels and connecting them to the movement.
She has also worked as a student organizer in Newark, NJ leading the fight against the privatization of public schools in the city.
Thomas L. Friedman, a world-renowned author and journalist, joined The New York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter specializing in OPEC- and oil-related news and later served as the chief diplomatic, chief White House, and international economics correspondents. A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles reporting the Middle East conflict, the end of the cold war, U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy, international economics, and the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. His foreign affairs column, which appears twice a week in the Times, is syndicated to seven hundred other newspapers worldwide.
Friedman is the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem (FSG, 1989), which won both the National Book Award and the Overseas Press Club Award in 1989 and was on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly twelve months. From Beirut to Jerusalem has been published in more than twenty-seven languages, including Chinese and Japanese, and is now used as a basic textbook on the Middle East in many high schools and universities. Friedman also wrote The Lexus and the Olive Tree (FSG, 1999), one of the best selling business books in 1999, and the winner of the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best nonfiction book on foreign policy. It is now available in twenty languages. His last book, Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11, issued by FSG in 2002, consists of columns Friedman published about September 11 as well as a diary of his private experiences and reflections during his reporting on the post-September world as he traveled from Afghanistan to Israel to Europe to Indonesia to Saudi Arabia. In 2005, The World Is Flat was given the first Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and Friedman was named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report.
Friedman graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a degree in Mediterranean studies and received a master’s degree in modern Middle East studies from Oxford. He has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University and has been awarded honorary degrees from several U.S. universities. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Ann, and their two daughters.
Tiana Epps-Johnson is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Technology and Civic Life. She and her team provide resources and training to support local election administrators in modernizing the ways they communicate with voters. They also publish free, open-source civic datasets that have been accessed over 60 million times through some of the most powerful tools that drive civic participation. Prior to CTCL, Tiana was the New Organizing Institute’s Election Administration Director. Tiana holds an MSc in Politics and Communication from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science from Stanford University.
Tiffiniy Cheng is a co-founder and co-director of Fight for the Future. Cheng has spent eleven years building activism campaigns, organizations, and software applications for social change. During that time, she co-led Downhill Battle, a first-of-its-kind viral campaign operation; built Open Congress, the most popular government transparency site; and nearly moved legislation on breaking up too-big-to-fail — her work is on art, culture and structural power issues. Fight for the Future is known for its visionary and massive viral organizing campaigns that changed Internet history both nationally and globally. Faced with the passage of Stop Online Piracy Act/SOPA and the Protect-IP Act/PIPA, Fight for the Future organized the largest and most visible online protest in history.
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School, and director of the Poliak Center for the study of First Amendment Issues at Columbia Journalism School. Wu’s best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His book The Master Switch has won wide recognition and various awards.
Wu worked at the Federal Trade Commission during the first term of the Obama administration, and has also worked as Chair of Media reform group Free Press, as a fellow at Google, and worked for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.
Wu is a contributing writer at NewYorker.com and a former contributing editor at The New Republic. He has been won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine, and the World Economic Forum, and has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing.
Timothy Karr is Free Press’s campaign director. Karr oversees campaigns and outreach efforts, including campaigns on public broadcasting and noncommercial media, fake news and propaganda, journalism in crisis, and the future of the Internet. Before joining Free Press, Tim served as executive director of MediaChannel.org and vice president of Globalvision New Media and the Globalvision News Network. He has also worked extensively as an editor, reporter and photojournalist for Time, Inc., the New York Times, Agence France Presse and Associated Press. Tim critiques, analyzes and reports on media and media policy in his popular blog, MediaCitizen.
Tin has a background in communication studies, web development, and interface design, and he works to simplify the relationship between technology, data, and human beings. He started work in the development sector in 2010 with the International Land Coalition, helping shape global online land rights accountability projects like the Land Matrix. He also developed online and offline training for land rights groups in South America, Africa and Asia, supporting them to build data-driven campaigns. In his spare time, he develops digital security training programs for high schools, and helps Italian NGOs working with asylum seekers to integrate technology into their work.
Toby Daniels es un empresario con una gran pasión para los nuevos medios de comunicación, la tecnología y la innovación social. Daniels es el director general de la sede en Nueva York de Crowdcentric que fue fundada como medio para unir a la gente en el mundo a través de plataformas de colaboración que mezclen experiencias reales y online mundo , conectando gente, contenido y conversación. Crowdcentric es propietario y organizador de Social Media Week, una conferencia bianual que tiene lugar simultáneamente en varias ciudades, incluyendo Nueva York, Berlín, Londres, San Francisco, Toronto y Sao Paulo y Los Ángeles, Bogotá, Ciudad de México, Buenos Aires y Milán.Daniels es también el co-fundador y Director Ejecutivo de ThinkSocial en el Paley Center for Media, una iniciativa sin fines de lucro que se dedica a promover el activismo de interés público a través de los medios emergentes y la tecnología. Recientemente, Daniels combinado su pasión por la innovación abierta y la colaboración con el lanzamiento del thebetacup.com en colaboración con Mutopo. Apoyado por Starbucks, esta nueva iniciativa pretende reducir el uso de vasos de papel a través de un concurso de diseño abierto y colaborativo.
