Personal Democracy Forum

Personal Democracy Forum

Founded	2004
Headquarters	New York, NY, USA
Founder(s)	Andrew Rasiej, Micah Sifry
Key people	Andrew Rasiej
Owner	Andrew Rasiej
Slogan(s)	Technology is changing politics.
Website	www.personaldemocracy.com
Alexa rank	800,587 (April 2014)[1]
Type of site	Blogging
Registration	Optional
Available in	English
Launched	2004
Current status	Active

Personal Democracy Forum - (often referred to as PDF) annual conference that follows how the internet is changing politics, governance, and advocacy. PDF is an initiative organized by Personal Democracy Media, which has been founded by Andrew Rasiej and co-founder Micah Sifry.^[2]

Website

Personal Democracy Forum has over twenty contributing editors who track, report, and reflect on the newest trends of technology in politics. The sister website techPresident followed how the 2008 United States presidential election campaigns utilized these new technologies and how these technologies are enabling citizens to affect the race.

Conference

The Personal Democracy Forum conference is an annual event held in New York City that began in 2004. The mission of the conference is to have political professionals, technologists, and non-profit executives educate each other on how technology is changing and what the future of democracy and advocacy looks like.

Notable speakers in the past include

• Vint Cerf^[3]
• Ana Marie Cox
• Elizabeth Edwards
• Thomas Friedman
• Gilberto Gil
• Arianna Huffington
• Lawrence Lessig
• Sascha Meinrath
• Josh Marshall
• Craig Newmark
• Douglas Rushkoff
• Robert Scoble
• Joe Trippi
• Eben Moglen

In 2013 the PDF has been organized for the first time on regional level in Poland: PDF-Poland and CEE. Organized in Warsaw by ePF - polish foundation, publisher of the Sejmometr.pl and MamPytanie.net, receiver of the 2012 ePSI Trailblazer in the parliamentary data category.

References

• Friedman, Thomas. "Laughing and Crying", The New York Times, May 23, 2007.