Here are the bios we used in the booklet
(for Nadia - use the one she wrote above: “Nadia E.N. Edgeryders Co-Founder. Leading development of the SciFi Economics Lab. nadia@edgeryders.eu”
If all of you other cats wish to change the text, now is the moment
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
Author of Numbercaste, The Inhuman Race, and several other stories available from HarperCollins and Aethon Books.
Nominated for the Nebula Award, published on ForeignPolicy and Slate, and appeared on Amazon bestseller lists.
Researcher for Data, Algorithms and Policy team at LIRNEasia, a think tank working across the Global South; Co-founder and editor of Watchdog Sri Lanka, a fact checker.
For the rest of the time, Yudhanjaya argues with the cat, tinkers with OSUN, a series of AI+human experiments in creativity, builds imaginary floating cities
Joriam Ramos
Author and networks specialists.
Works as Enspiral’s Catalyst - a self managed servant leader role that aims to turn the network’s invisible resources into something visible and available for all. Creator and manager of Jojojo, a personality exploration cardgame that uses weird and profound questions to accelerate connections between people. Proud owner of a sci fi Youtube channel.
Alberto Cottica
Head of Science Fiction Economics Lab. Economist and network scientist, expert on online collaboration, collective intelligence, and participatory, networked organization. Worked with governments and IGOs in various capacities; now entrepreneuring at Edgeryders; civic hacking with Wikitalia and Spaghetti Open Data. In the past a reasonably successful rock musician (Wikipedia), but he is trying to quit.
Nadia El-Imam
One of the founders and directors of Edgeryders . Leads the strategic development for Edgeryders Environment and the Climate unit and was born in Sweden to African parents, raised in Europe and Asia. She is an engineer and designer and specialises in building platforms for citizen engagement and distributed collaboration.
Michela De Domenico
Architect and comics artist, PhD in Engineering construction: the project of recovery. Her comics were published by KAPPAedizioni, Centro Fumetto Andrea Pazienza, Tunuè, Edizioni Intercultural. Supports her research in the field of architecture design, teaching at the Messina Art School, creating comics and storyboards.
Marco Lo Curzio
Designer specialised in graphic interactive communication. Professor of graphic design at AFAM-MIUR.
These are the portraits:
@lidiazuin it would be cool if you sent yours too