Category: Technology Board
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Eli Pariser
Eli Pariser wants to help technology and media serve democracy. At 23 years old, he was named Executive Director of MoveOn.org, where he led the organization’s opposition to the Iraq war, raised over $120 million from small donors, and helped pioneer the practice of online citizen engagement. In 2006 he confounded Avaaz, now the world’s
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Divya Siddarth
Divya Siddarth’s work covers a broad range of research and applications in the space of democratized technology, decentralized governance, and online and offline collective participative processes. Her current focus is around promoting and preserving the digital commons, building the technology and policy infrastructure for data collaboratives, and devising frameworks for collectively-focused, rather than centrally concentrated,
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Josh Simons
Josh Simons is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Technology and Democracy the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University. Josh’s first book, Citizen Rule: Democracy in the Age of Machine Learning, is due in Summer 2022, based on his PhD dissertation in political theory, which received the
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Matthew Victor
Matthew Victor is a Boston-based lawyer, policy analyst and civic technologist. Matthew founded and helps lead the development of the Massachusetts Platform for Legislative Engagement (MAPLE), a new digital public space centered on pending state legislation and constituent testimony. He is a former technology consultant and has worked in the life sciences, non-profit research and
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Glen Weyl
Glen Weyl is the world’s leading expert on how to harness Web 3 and other emerging technologies to empower new forms of democracy. As the primary intellectual collaborator of Vitalik Buterin (Founder of Ethereum) and Audrey Tang (Digital Minister of Taiwan), Glen has helped shape the world’s most vibrant digital decentralized ecosystem and national democracy
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Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman is a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he teaches Public Policy, Communication and Information. He is starting a new research center called the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure. Over the years, he has been a tech startup guy (with Tripod.com), a non-profit founder (Geekcorps.org) and co-founder (Globalvoices.org), and throughout