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Join us for Personal Democracy Forum 2019, "Making Tech Civic" on June 6th at Civic Hall!
This year PDF is going for intimacy, with a one-day immersion for a smaller number of attendees given space limitations.* We're focusing on just three inter-related plenary topics, & structuring the whole day to build meaningful collaboration on those topics. So when we say that tickets are limited, they really are!
Just a few years ago, technology was viewed with rose-colored spectacles. Tech was going to open up the world, liberate folks from corporate tutelage, expand & open knowledge, make government more efficient, & bring about a more equitable society. Yet, after realizing foreign governments could interfere with elections through digital propaganda, governments could use big tech as surveillance tools, platforms were anti-competitive, technology companies are using or selling data in unethical ways, & political violence is organized on platforms, the optimism has worn off.
Our theme this year, "Making Tech Civic," is an interrogation & creative exploration into ways we can reverse some of the negative impacts technology tools, companies, & policies have had on civic discourse, economy, social structures, & politics. How can we build better information ecosystems? How do we make technology companies more civic? Has power & data become too consolidated in just a few companies, & if so, how do we hold those companies & our governments accountable to higher standards or regulations?
We've pulled together a stellar group of presenters who bring cutting-edge insight & experience to these challenges.
Learn more at pdf19.com
This day will explore those questions & more. Because space is limited, tickets are limited so buy yours today! If the price of the ticket is a limiting factor to your attendance, tickets at the cost of food are available. Please contact the curator danielle [at] personaldemocracy.com for this discounted ticket.
*If you are used to coming to the big two-day, 140-speaker, 30-panel PDFs of past years, we apologize for going small this year. As you may know, we are deeply focused on the expansion project ofCivic Hall @ Union Square, which is slated to open in early 2021--and then we'll have a big new conference center of our own to host PDF in.
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