PDF Italia 2014
Europe | Sep 29
September 29th, Rome | Personal Democracy Forum Italia
Since 2004, Personal Democracy Media has helped nurture a world-wide conversation about technology’s impact on government and politics, and society with a conference, Personal Democracy Forum (PDF), that takes place in New York every year.
This year, the conference comes to Italy for the first time. It will take place in Rome on September 29th.
PDF Italia will focus on the impact of data on society and its consequences for all its actors, most of all on citizens.
PDF Italia will be part of Innovation Week, a week of debates, meetings and forums dedicated to the new frontiers in the digital revolution, with topics ranging from Open Hardware to Social Innovation and Democracy, from City Makers in the Collaborative Economy to Open Data and Impact Finance.
The highlight of the week will be the second edition of the European Maker Faire.
The Maker Faire is the largest exhibition in the world dedicated to the innovation, creativity and enterprise, an event for families and lovers of the “do it yourself” spirit but also the celebration of the Makers movement.
Innovation Week is promoted by the Chamber of Commerce in Rome and organized by its specialist Agency -
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Featured Speakers
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Ernesto Belisario
Director, Italian Open Government Observatory
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![Marko Rakar](https://web.archive.org/web/20140702233627im_/http://personaldemocracy.com/files/imagecache/ConferenceCallSpeakers/%252FRakar.png "Marko Rakar (1972) is president of a small Croatian NGO called Windmill. Marko has a lifelong experience in working/writing for media as well as dealing with the media. He combines his media knowledge with new technologies and was one of the earliest internet adopters in Croatia. He is a recognized lecturer and consultant on the subjects of organizing, the internet, new media as well as politics. He has run a number of successful campaigns and races for organizations, parties and independent candidates on presidential, parliament and municipal elections in Croatia, Europe, Asia and the US. His speciality is new and social media, as well as data transparency and open governance. Marko studied Philosophy and Information sciences at the University of Zagreb, speaks English fluently and is regular columnist and author to a number of blogs, web sites, newspapers and magazines in Croatia and internationally.
He was recognized in 2009. by World eGovernment forum as one of the "Top 10 who are changing the world of politics on the internet," recognition which he received for exposing voter list manipulation in Croatia. In 2010 he was arrested, held for questioning and accused of leaking a top secret list of war veterans which includes more then 200.000 people who never participated in the war effort and who draw more then $1.2 billion per year in benefits from Croatian government. In late 2011, Windmill published a list of more then 60.000 Croatian public procurement contracts worth more then $15 billion combined with financial data of suppliers and a number of other information which helped prove and explain how Croatian public procurement process is inefficient, riddled with crime and corruption and in general harmful for Croatian citizen interests. Windmill and Marko are currently working on analysis of the Croatian pension system trying to prove how the private pension funds were used to bail out bad bank loans, as well as a number of other anti-corruption and data transparency projects.
Marko is a member of the board of EAPC (Europan association of political consultants), member of the board of IAPC (International association of political consultants), "School of politics" alumni (by Council of Europe).")
Marko Rakar
President, Windmill
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Camille François
Fellow, Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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Chris Taggart
Co-Founder and CEO, OpenCorporates
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![Carola Frediani](https://web.archive.org/web/20140702233627im_/http://personaldemocracy.com/files/imagecache/ConferenceCallSpeakers/%252Fcarola-frediani.jpg "Carola Frediani is a journalist and author.
In 2010 she co-founded Effecinque.org, an agency committed to delivering content, digital products, innovative formats and experiments with social media.
She writes mainly about digital culture, privacy, environment, hacking and hacktivism for L’Espresso, Wired, Il Secolo XIX, Pagina99 and TechPresident.
In the past she has also written extensively for Corriere della Sera and Sky.it, where among other things she worked on the Beautiful Lab project.
Previously she had worked for almost ten years with Franco Carlini in the web journalism agency Totem, in Genova.
In 2012, she wrote "Dentro Anonymous", a travel in the legions of cyberactivism." In June 2014 she published "Deep Web - La Rete oltre Google"")
Carola Frediani
Journalist, Effecinque.org
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