Fact checking, cloud communication and crowd-sourcing: today, under the communal label of sharing, lie information phenomena and management models that pose fresh questions both for Institutions and for businesses, for governments and for civil society. A reflection on the role of language in the changing information and communication panorama.
One of the most influential experts on the effects of Internet and the digital networks’ spread on cultural, political and social spheres. He coined the term “podcasting”.
Writer, journalist, futurologist, he is currently Ambassador of the UK Prime Minister and member of the Tech City Advisory Board, one of the first innovation centers and a benchmark for investors and technological and digital campaigns.
Debated and popular Internet guru, said to be “the Silicon Valley’s Antichrist”, he founded audiocafe.com in 1995, leading it to success among the first generation Internet firms. Journalist, and columnist for newspapers, radio and TV, he is the anchorman of the “Keen On show”. He is the author of the international bestsellers “Cult of the Amateur. How the Internet is killing our culture” (2008) and “Digital vertigo. How today's social revolution is dividing, diminishing and disorienting us” (2012).
ICS Chairman since 2010, coordinator of EuroMediterraNetwork and President of Pomilio Blumm, a company leader in public and institutional communication. Trained in the United States, he has specialized in marketing at Harvard University, MIT and the INSEAD campus in Singapore, he has worked in major advertising corporations in the United States, the Middle East and Japan. Author of the books "La Repubblica della Comunicazione" (2010), "Communicazione 3.0" (2011) and "Comunicare la trasparenza" (2013), he has developed one of the most original theoretical models of communication between institutions and citizen-consumer.
Twitter Profile ICS Pomilio Blumm: @icspb
Co-founder and former president of Transparency International Italy, she has directed and elaborated numerous national and international projects to promote legality and eliminate corruption within the public and private sectors, including the implementation and monitoring of the OCSE and UNCAC Conventions, European research on the protection of whistle-blowers and on the National Integrity System.
News editor at Radio24 – Il Sole 24 Ore and responsible of the programming. She been chief editor of the radio phonic circuit CNR and vice director of the information agency AGR. Former professor of communication at the Università degli studi di Genova and at the Universtà del Sacro Cuore, she is currently professor of Radiophonic Communication at the Master in Journalism from the Università IULM.
Researcher of Geography and member of the Cartographic Laboratory Diathesis from the Università degli studi di Bergamo, where she is a professor of Anthropogeography, Geography for Education and Geography of Environment and Tourism. Her field of interest regards the relationship between thespace and cartography procedures, concentrating on geographic informative systems and methodologies for activating collaborative processes in the territorial projecting.
Journalist, he is head for science of “Wired Italy”. He managed the project “Le città illuminate” for “Nòva24”, the insert of the italian newspaper “Il Sole24Ore”, and he produced and co-moderated the radio program “NovaLab24” on Radio24. He is coordinator for the idata project of the Ahref foundation and is among the main founders of the association “Right to know”.