The Center on Organizational Innovation at Columbia and the Harriman Institute are excited to announce the 25th anniversary celebration of the Center on Organizational Innovation (COI), marking a quarter-century of groundbreaking research on new forms of collaboration, communication, and coordination afforded by emerging interactive technologies. In that time, we have been an intellectual home for more than 60 PhD students and hosted more than 50 Visiting Scholars from all parts of the globe.

Democracy has been a persistent theme at the COI. From the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent transformation of Eastern Europe to the emergence of digital technologies at the turn of the 21st century, COI researchers have investigated the changing forms of democratic engagement, learning, and resistance. Join us in celebrating this legacy of innovation and democratic exploration!

Moderator

David Stark: Director of the Center on Organizational Innovation at Columbia https://davidcstark.net/

Speakers

Laszlo Bruszt: Director of the Democracy Institute at the Central European University https://democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/people/laszlo-bruszt

Gina Neff: Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge. https://www.mctd.ac.uk/team-members/gina-neff/

Pablo Boczkowski: Director of the Center for Latinx Digital Media at Northwestern University and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Media & Society in Argentina https://boczkowski.org