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Personal Democracy Forum

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Type of site
  
Blogging

Owner
  
Andrew Rasiej

Founded
  
2004

Available in
  
English

Key people
  
Andrew Rasiej

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Slogan(s)
  
Technology is changing politics.

Website
  
www.personaldemocracy.com

Headquarters
  
New York City, New York, United States

Founders
  
Andrew Rasiej, Micah L. Sifry

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Personal Democracy Forum (often referred to as PDF) is an annual conference that follows how the internet is changing politics, governance, and advocacy. PDF is an initiative organized by Personal Democracy Media, which has been founded by Andrew Rasiej and co-founder Micah Sifry.

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Website

Personal Democracy Forum has over twenty contributing editors who track, report, and reflect on the newest trends of technology in politics. The sister website techPresident followed how the 2008 United States presidential election campaigns utilized these new technologies and how these technologies are enabling citizens to affect the race.

Conference

The Personal Democracy Forum conference is an annual event held in New York City that began in 2004. The mission of the conference is to have political professionals, technologists, and non-profit executives educate each other on how technology is changing and what the future of democracy and advocacy looks like.

Notable speakers in the past include

  • Vint Cerf
  • Ana Marie Cox
  • Elizabeth Edwards
  • Thomas Friedman
  • Gilberto Gil
  • Arianna Huffington
  • Lawrence Lessig
  • Sascha Meinrath
  • Josh Marshall
  • Craig Newmark
  • Douglas Rushkoff
  • Robert Scoble
  • Joe Trippi
  • Eben Moglen
  • Jack Dorsey
  • Clay Shirky
  • Edward Snowden
  • Julian Assange
  • Ethan Zuckerman
  • Patrick Ruffini
  • In 2013 the PDF has been organized for the first time on regional level in Poland: PDF-Poland and CEE. Organized in Warsaw by ePF - polish foundation, publisher of the Sejmometr.pl and MamPytanie.net, receiver of the 2012 ePSI Trailblazer in the parliamentary data category.

    References

    Personal Democracy Forum Wikipedia


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