Institute For The Future

Smári McCarthy: From the Panama Papers to the Pirate Party

Could the Panama Papers help catalyze a new era of transparency in politics
and the global economy?

May 13, 2016  |  Institute for the Future, 201 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto *
Lunch—11:30am  |  Program—12:10pm
Cost: $10 (lunch included)  |  Registration Required (below)

Join Smári McCarthy in conversation with Marina Gorbis, IFTF's Executive Director, about his work in breaking the story of the Panama Papers and launching Iceland’s Pirate Party. McCarthy will share a first person account of how the investigation behind the Panama Papers came out of a new movement for collaborative and distributed journalism involving more than 400 reporters working together in secret for over a year.

As co-founder of Iceland's prominent Pirate Party and inventor of Liquid Democracy, McCarthy will also examine the way technology is opening governance structures and creating participatory democracies.

 

About Smári McCarthy

Smári McCarthy, Icelandic/Irish information activist and politician, is co-founder of Iceland’s Pirate Party and chief technologist at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. He lives at the intersection between politics and technology, working and writing on free software, information security, privacy, free speech, transparency and other related issues. He is a board member of the International Modern Media Institute and chairman of the European Pirate Party. He previously co-founded Mailpile, the Icelandic Pirate Party, the Icelandic Constitutional Society, and the Shadow Parliament Project.

About Institute for the Future

• For more information about IFTF's research in this field, check out "It’s the criminal economy, stupid!"

* wheelchair accessible