Transparency and reputation are two sides of the same coin: the system of communication that develops around the social networks. This new, inclusive form of the “democracy of truth” constitutes the most potent instrument available today for the institutions and for changing societies.
Co-founder and creative director of Twitter, today the most important non-conventional information channel, chosen by users world-wide. With its formula of 140 characters he has revolutionized the way of communicating on the social networks. He collaborated on the creation of other communication services for social interaction, such as Xanga, Blogger and Odeo. Considered one of the world’s most influential men, in 2010 he received the first Innovation Award of the International Center for Journalists.
Founder and CEO of Reputation.com, nominated a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Internet Security, chair of the Advisory Board for the Internet Keep Safe Coalition, an organisation composed of a broad partnership of professionals from various sectors of society, that works for the creation of a safe and healthy environment for children to navigate online.
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
Professor of Sociology of cultural processes and director of the Department of Communications and social research at the Sapienza University in Rome. Chair of the National Conference of the faculty and degree courses in Communication Science. Amongst his more recent publications are "Neogiornalismo, Tra Crisi e Rete, come cambia il sistema dell’informazione" (Neo-journalism. Between Crisis and Network, how the information system is changing) e "Università al futuro. Sistema, progetto, innovazione" (University in the future tense. System, project, innovation.
General director of the Confederation of Italian Industries Assafrica & Mediterraneo.
Twitter Profile Confindustria Assafrica & Mediterraneo: @ASSAFRICA
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.
The founder of I.NET, he has been director of the Digital Section of the Group Sole 24 Ore and president of the Italian Association of Internet Providers (AIIP), and is one of the pioneers of the introduction of the web culture in Italy.
Since 2010 he has been the ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco, in Italy, in San Marino and in Malta. He has been minister of Foreign Trade, Foreign Investment and Tourism, and between 1995 and 1997, he was minister of Agriculture.
President of the Confederation of Italian Industries Assafrica&Mediterraneo.
President and founding partner of the Institute of Pavia. He deals with research and training in the field of the analysis of communication in the media, and is a board member of the Centre for Media Education of Pavia and of the honorary committee of The Child Guardian Award.
A researcher from Sapienza university, Rome, where she teaches the Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes. She has lectured at the IULM University, at Milan’s San Raffaele, and at the University of Macerata. She has been a consultant for GPF in research models applied to brands, and the screenwriter of television programmes about advertising.
President of the Fondazione Pubblicità Progresso, he is an advisor to the Istituto di Autodisciplina Pubblicitaria (Institute for Advertising and Marketing Communication Self-Regulation), director general of the Lombardy Film Commission and a university lecturer in social communication.
A journalist and writer, he has been director of the news programme TG1, director of the newspaper Sole24Ore, has written for the most important national and international newspapers, including Corriere della Sera, L’Espresso, the New York Times and Le Monde. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the NGO, Oxfam Italy, and is one of the most followed journalists on Twitter, appearing amongst the names of the “G20 influencers” of Klout.