Author Archives: Francesca Bria

About Francesca Bria

Researcher, expert on Innovation Policy and Management and Social Media. Francesca is now a PhD Researcher and Teaching Associate at Imperial College London. She's a member of the Internet of Things Council Europe.

SOPA Strike!

Posted on January 18, 2012

Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge…For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the Internet as we know it. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For … Continue reading →

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European Innovation Summit

Posted on October 20, 2011

Last week I was in Brussels for the European Innovation Summit, attending a session on Future Internet and Smart Cities. The vision and frameworks provided in the report I wrote for the European Commission on “Cities and Regions as co-creation … Continue reading →

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Open World Forum on Internet of Things

Posted on October 20, 2011

Council hosted two IoT sessions in Paris at OWF. I spoke at a panel on the Internet of Things & Open Data: New forms of Organisation and Governance. Important topics were discussed that advance the Open Source debate towards a … Continue reading →

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Another City is possible

Posted on October 20, 2011

I have been invited at Picnic for a roundtable discussion organised by Council The Internet of Things . Council hosted a Special Lab City, Design & Play on how to crowdfund the infrastructure in a full Internet of Things world

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Building a Federated Social Web

Posted on October 19, 2011

Last June I was invited for a round table discussion at the “d-cent” Federated Social Web Summit Europe 2011 in Berlin, co-organised by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and by the EU FP7 PrimeLife project. Techies, researchers, activists, policy … Continue reading →

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Act on Acta

Posted on April 29, 2010

I am publishing some information on this interesting and useful event organised by the Green Party and activists groups on digital freedom and access to knowledge on ACTA and the Public Interest . I am going to cover the issue … Continue reading →

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Pat Mooney on the Dangers of Geoengineering and Manipulating the Planet to Combat Climate Change

Posted on April 28, 2010

Pat Mooney on the Dangers of Geoengineering and Manipulating the Planet to Combat Climate Change More information on: ETC

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Three main reasons for rejecting ACTA

Posted on April 10, 2010

This is a really important campaign to support, the one against the the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). ACTA is violating fundamental citizens rights and freedoms, rights to privacy and access to the commons. ACTA should be negotiated within the European … Continue reading →

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UK wants to kill Net Neutrality

Posted on March 10, 2009

La quadrature du Net IPtegrity

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Bye bye Net Neutrality?

Posted on February 20, 2009

The European Parliament is about to take very important decisions that will affect the every day use of the internet by europeans: the Telecoms package will be adopted in second reading in April, while the approval of the Medina report, … Continue reading →

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