Catherine Fieschi is the Director of Counterpoint - the cultural relations think tank of the British Council - and a regular commentator on identity politics in the UK and Europe. In ‚her previous incarnation’ Catherine was the Director of London-based Demos, a think tank involved in user driven social innovation and participatory devolved budgeting. In Catherine’s view, technology and innovation is supposed to help us change command and control over the way we live thus improving our daily lives. By working with countries that are not ‚the usual suspects’ Catherine tested how these precepts could be applied on a large canvas. In her talk at Lift France she focussed on large institutions and technology, the small things that matter and most importantly on what kind of values the technologies and the innovations that we embark upon allow us to live and to help others live...
Click here for an overview of presentations and videos from Lift France 2009.
