SXSW 2012

Editorial Dir
Personal Democracy Media
Micah L. Sifry is co-founder and editorial director of Personal Democracy Media, which produces the annual Personal Democracy Forum conference on the ways technology is changing politics, and techPresident.com, an award-winning blog on how politicians are using the web and how the web is using them. In addition, he consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. He is a senior technology adviser to the Sunlight Foundation, which he helped found in 2006, and also serves on the board of Consumer Reports and the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science. He is the author or editor of six books, most recently Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency (OR Books, 2011), and in the spring of 2012 he taught "The Politics of the Internet" as a visiting lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School. He is currently finishing his seventh book, The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet Hasn't Transformed Politics (Yet), which will be published in mid-2014.