Speaking

I speak frequently about the social implications of technology and new media, especially as they relate to governance, journalism, and human rights. Please be in touch via the contact page if you would like me to speak at an event. What follows is a list of select presentations.

2015

• Institute for the Future, Palo Alto — The Future of Philanthropy

2014

• Big Ideas for a New America, Washington DC — Launch a World-Class Newspaper in Every State
• New America Foundation fellows roundtable, Mexico City  — Mexico’s Civil Society & Democratic Opening
• Social Computing Symposium, New York  — The Market Failures of Civil Society & Memes Against Impunity in Mexico
• #HackDF, De los Datos Crudos a la Participación Ciudadana, Mexico City  — Datos Cívicos y Participación Cívica

2013

• Open Government Partnership Regional Meeting, Santiago, Chile — Beyond Technology for Transparency
• ReConstitutional Convention, Palo Alto — Is Twitter Civic Software at Scale?
• CEPAL Open Data, Mexico City — Philanthropy and Open Government
• New Cities Summit, São Paulo, Brazil — The Quantified City
• Conferencia Regional de Datos Abiertos, Montevideo, Uruguay — Open Data Business Models
• Open Government Partnership Summit, London — Open Cities and Smart Citizens
• Empoderamiento Pro-desarrollo a Través de la Transparencia Gubernamental, Mexico City
• Google Press Summit, Mexico City  — 25 Years Later: The Good and Bad of the Web

2012

• TEDxDFSalon, Mexico City — Los Ocho Principios de Datos Abiertos
• Empowering Independent Media, Washington DC
• TEDxCentroHistorico, Mexico City — Transparencia
• Ciudades Digitales, Buenos Aires — Democracia, tecnología y ciudadanía

2011

• SXSW, Austin — The Impact of Social Media Tools in Mexico
• Guest Lecture, World Bank — Technology for Transparency
• Campamento Digital, Monterrey, Mexico
• Tecnología y Participación Ciudadana en la Construcción Democrática, Guadalajara, Mexico — Fame, Followers, Anonymity and Activism
• Campus Party, Mexico City  — ¿A quién debería pertenecer la información?
• Voces Jovenes, Mexico City
• Ars Electronica Symposium — The Revolutionary Meme

2010

• Open Society Foundations Media Conference  — Intro to Citizen Media
• Walter Cronkite School of Journalism Guest Lecturers Series, Phoenix — Rising Voices
• Creative Commons Salon, San Francisco  — Barriers to Access and Participation
• Creative Industries Styria Convention, Graz, Austria  — Individual expression and communal collaboration
• Espacio Público, Caracas, Venezuela — Participación, la Autoría Universal y el Cambio Social
• Re:Publica, Berlin, Germany — Two Sides of a Window: Technology and Transparency
  
• Austin Forum, Austin — Citizen Journalism and Drug Trafficking in Mexico
• International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy — Global Citizen Media
• Personal Democracy Forum, Santiago, Chile — Technology and the Expansion of Human Rights
• Digital Culture Forum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  — Technology for Transparency

2009

• The Soul of the New Machine, Berkeley, California — New Era of Human Rights Advocacy
• The Future of News and Civic Media, Cambridge  — Collaboration Contest
• 80plus1, Linz, Austria  — Cloud Intelligence
• Internet Hungary, Budapest, Hungary — The Artisan Internet and Digital Craftsmanship (slides)
• MediaCamp Kiev, Ukraine — Changes in Media Over the Past 550 Years (slides)
• Seeding Tomorrow’s Media, Salzburg, Austria — A Case for Participation
• Cultura Digital, São Paulo, Brazil — Pro-Craftsmanship, Anti-Virtuosity
• World Blogging Forum, Budapest, Romania  — The Ethics and Responsibility of Paying Attention

2008

• DIY Video Summit, Los Angeles
• We Media, Miami — Soft Power (w/ Chuck de Feo)
• BiblioRedes, Santiago, Chile — Rising Voices
• Interactive Media Conference, Las Vegas
• Campus Party, Bogota, Colombia  — Blogging and Translation
• Ars Electronica Symposium, Linz Austria — Global Voices
• Interdependence Day, Brussels, Belgium  — Youth and Citizen Media
• Guest Lecture, Berkman Center, Cambridge  — Rising Voices
• Mobile Active, Johannesburg, South Africa — Mobile Citizen Media (w/ Juliana Rotich)
• Culture Mondo, Taipei, Taiwan — Citizen Media and Cultural Portals

2007

• Global Voices Summit, Delhi, India — Global Voices Translation
• International Communications Association Conference, San Francisco — Global Voices Online
• Cambodian Bloggers Summit, Phnom Penh — Intro to Citizen Media
• Blogs and Digital Democracy, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — Engage, Ignore Suppress: How Governments Respond to Citizen Media (Slides)