This presentation and panel will transform how you see the information crisis. You will be equipped with new ways of articulating both the problems and solutions, more clearly and with more impact. Fo...
Mario Vasilescu
Mario Vasilescu is co-founder of Readocracy, the first platform dedicated to information wellness, for individuals, communities, and society as a whole. This means exploring how people can become more mindful of, and motivated by, their information diets. This includes providing insights like a “Fitbit for your information diet”, the ability to design your own news algorithm, identifying and bursting 5 types of filter bubbles, and social features that reward people for being well-informed.
With his team, they are on a mission to create a future where how we feed our minds matters just as much as how we feed our bodies. They are a Mozilla FixTheInternet award winner and a SXSW finalist for social impact. Their technology has been awarded by IBM, Canada’s Digital News Innovation Challenge, and The Globe and Mail’s Lab351.
Mario is a robotics engineer turned designer, digital strategist, and now founder obsessed with media ecology. Prior to entering the world of startups, he led digital innovation projects and digital literacy campaigns for national organizations in Canada and France. He is based in Toronto.
We are attention guardians, attention robbers and attention police: reframing our roles in the attention economy
”We have limited attention, chased by unlimited information.” A sequel to last year’s engaging Click Bubble presentation, this session will present a series of thought-provoking stats outlining ...
How the bubble consumed the internet, a timeline of the collapse, key lessons, and the promising road ahead for great journalism. In this session Mario Vasilescu will: > Explain how the modern in...
