For those who were afraid of snow on monday and couldn't join us at amazing Bart Kiszala presentation we have another meet up next week!
We meet for a "regular" swarm that will take place in The Stage, (back to The Stage, yay!) Lobzowska 3. We start at 7pm on Monday 4 February (don’t be late we want to start on time)
Together with U.S. Consulate General Krakow we invited two amazing social entrepreneurs, co-founders of Personal Democracy Media - Andrew Rasiej and Micah L. Sifry. Andrew and Micah will talk about the role of technology in civic and social innovation and how technology
is changing the dynamics for politicians, governments, and non government organizations. They will also speak about the challenges and opportunities for entrepreneurs building businesses at this moment in time.
You already cannot wait? Click "I'm Attending" on our Facebook event page.
Find out more about the speakers:
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Andrew Rasiej, Co-Founder at Personal Democracy Media
Andrew Rasiej is a professional doer, futurist, social entrepreneur, and Founder of Personal Democracy Media, which produces Personal Democracy Forum and other events about how the intersection of technology, politics, and civil society is empowering new levels of citizen engagement. He is also the Founder a not for profit organization called MOUSE.org focused on 21st century public education, Co-Founder of Mideastwire.com, which translates Arabic and Farsi news and opinion pieces into English, and serves as Senior Technology Advisor to the Sunlight Foundation a Washington DC focused on using technology to help make government more transparent. Andrew is the Chairman of the NY Tech Meetup, a 24,000-member organization of technologists, venture funders, marketers, representing start up and more mature companies working in the technology industry in New York City which is currently experiencing a renaissance.
You can follow Andew on Twitter at @rasiej
We meet for a "regular" swarm that will take place in The Stage, (back to The Stage, yay!) Lobzowska 3. We start at 7pm on Monday 4 February (don’t be late we want to start on time)
Together with U.S. Consulate General Krakow we invited two amazing social entrepreneurs, co-founders of Personal Democracy Media - Andrew Rasiej and Micah L. Sifry. Andrew and Micah will talk about the role of technology in civic and social innovation and how technology
is changing the dynamics for politicians, governments, and non government organizations. They will also speak about the challenges and opportunities for entrepreneurs building businesses at this moment in time.
You already cannot wait? Click "I'm Attending" on our Facebook event page.
Find out more about the speakers:
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Andrew Rasiej, Co-Founder at Personal Democracy Media
Andrew Rasiej is a professional doer, futurist, social entrepreneur, and Founder of Personal Democracy Media, which produces Personal Democracy Forum and other events about how the intersection of technology, politics, and civil society is empowering new levels of citizen engagement. He is also the Founder a not for profit organization called MOUSE.org focused on 21st century public education, Co-Founder of Mideastwire.com, which translates Arabic and Farsi news and opinion pieces into English, and serves as Senior Technology Advisor to the Sunlight Foundation a Washington DC focused on using technology to help make government more transparent. Andrew is the Chairman of the NY Tech Meetup, a 24,000-member organization of technologists, venture funders, marketers, representing start up and more mature companies working in the technology industry in New York City which is currently experiencing a renaissance.
You can follow Andew on Twitter at @rasiej
Micah L. Sifry, Co-Founder at Personal Democracy Media
Micah L. Sifry is co-founder and editorial director of Personal Democracy Media, which produces the annual Personal Democracy Forum conference on the ways technology is changing politics, and techPresident.com, an award-winning blog on how politicians are using the web and how the web is using them. In addition, he consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. He is a senior technology adviser to the Sunlight Foundation. He is the author or editor of six books, most recently Wikileaks and the Age of the Transparency (OR Books, 2011), and in the spring of 2012 he began teaching at Harvard’s Kennedy School.
Micah was an editor and writer with The Nation magazine for thirteen years. You can follow him on Twitter at @mlsif.
Well, that's all for now bees but stay tuned because we’re planing a surprise for you:)
Let us know you're coming by clicking "I'm Attending" on our Facebook event page and see you there!
Bzzz
Micah L. Sifry is co-founder and editorial director of Personal Democracy Media, which produces the annual Personal Democracy Forum conference on the ways technology is changing politics, and techPresident.com, an award-winning blog on how politicians are using the web and how the web is using them. In addition, he consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. He is a senior technology adviser to the Sunlight Foundation. He is the author or editor of six books, most recently Wikileaks and the Age of the Transparency (OR Books, 2011), and in the spring of 2012 he began teaching at Harvard’s Kennedy School.
Micah was an editor and writer with The Nation magazine for thirteen years. You can follow him on Twitter at @mlsif.
Well, that's all for now bees but stay tuned because we’re planing a surprise for you:)
Let us know you're coming by clicking "I'm Attending" on our Facebook event page and see you there!
Bzzz
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