We’re pleased to announce that Chris Wong is joining Personal Democracy Media to curate this June’s ninth annual Personal Democracy Forum. He comes to us with a wide range of experience in the world of open knowledge, free culture and creative new approaches to civic collaboration. He’s a postgraduate fellow and lecturer at the Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School, and a visiting fellow at both the Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy and the Yale Law School Information Society Project. Currently, he is leading research on the NSF-funded Open Patent project exploring the tagging and visualization of patent information, and was previously the founding project manager of the IILP’s historic Peer To Patent project, which he continues to advise.
Chris also is no stranger to conference curation in circles close to PdF. In 2010, Chris founded Innovate / Activate, an event series that focuses on developing practical solutions for improving global welfare through the thoughtful consideration of intellectual property. Innovate / Activate brings together students, academics, activists, and professionals from around the world, and has featured presenters from organizations like IBM, Google, Kickstarter, the Center for International Environmental Law in Geneva, the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, and the Institute for Science, Ethics, and Innovation in Manchester.
Beginning in 2011, Chris has also served as the co-director of the Open Video Conference, an annual summit of leaders from the fields of technology, policy, business, and academia coming together to explore the future of video and the open web.
If you have proposals or suggestions for conference topics or speakers, email them to chris-at-personal-democracy-dot-com. There’s no formal application, just make your best pitch.
As for me, I’m becoming PDM’s editorial director, and will be helping Chris as he wraps his arms around the great swirling mass of humanity and creativity that is PdF. For the next three-and-a-half months, I’ll be living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, teaching a course called “The Politics of the Internet” at Harvard’s Kennedy School and learning how to pahk my cah near Hahvad Yahd. And continuing to blog here and work with the growing techPresident editorial team.
January 17, 2012