DLD Conference presents a panel discussion on Internet Politics featuring discussants Mark Gorenberg, Jack Hidary, Randi Zuckerberg, Micah Sifry. This event was moderated by Jeff Jarvis.
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Bio
Mark Gorenberg
Mark Gorenberg is Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Founded in 1989, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners was the first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in software companies. Hummer Winblad is now in its sixth fund and over 19 years has managed $1.2B and invested in 112 early stage software companies with 51 liquidity events to date.
Gorenberg has served as a board member for start-up and public software companies, including AdForce, HomeGrocer, NetDynamics and Scopus Technologies. Currently, he serves as a Director of public company Omniture (NASDAQ: OMTR), as well as private companies Aria Systems, Cenzic, Infopia, Kwiry, ontheFRONTIER, Replay Solutions, Sonatype and Tizor Systems.
Gorenberg is also a member of the Board of Trustees for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation and The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and The Environment.
Jack Hidary
Jack Hidary is a clean sectors and internet entrepreneur, he has built three companies: GlobalSolarCenter.com, SmartTransportation.org, and AmericansforCleanEnergy.org. Hidary also is the co-founder of Automotive X Prize and the Chairman of FreedomPrize.org.
Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do?, blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com and writes the new media column in the Guardian. He is currently director of interactive journalism at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is consulting editor of Daylife and has been an adviser to the Guardian, Sky.com, Burda, and Publish2.
Earlier, he was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications; creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner.
Micah Sifry
Micah Sifry is co-founder and editor of Personal Democracy Forum, a website and annual conference that covers the ways technology is changing politics, and TechPresident.com, an award-winning group blog on how American politicians are using the web and how the web is using them.
In addition to organizing the annual Personal Democracy Forum conference with his partner Andrew Rasiej, he consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. In that capacity, he has been a senior technology adviser to the Sunlight Foundation since its founding in 2006.
He is the co-editor of Rebooting America, an anthology of writing on how the Internet and new technology can be used to reinvent American democracy, co-author of Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? Washington on $2 Million a Day (John Wiley & Sons, 2004), author of Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor of The Iraq War Reader (Touchstone, 2003) and The Gulf War Reader (Times Books, 1991). His personal blog is at micah.sifry.com.
Randi Zuckerberg
Randi Zuckerberg manages marketing initiatives at Facebook, where she has led the company's US election and international politics strategy.
She is the sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Most recently, Randi Zuckerberg represented Facebook as a correspondent for CNN.com’s Inauguration Day live broadcast. Zuckerberg is a graduate of Harvard University and has a passion for Italian opera and Broadway showtunes.
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