The 2018 edition of the Internet Festival will be held from 11 to 14 October. Absolutely confirmed the headquarters of Pisa, which has made the festival iconic and significant thanks to the high quality of the project, the guests and the issues addressed.

 

 

 

The Internet Festival 2018 program will be announced during the summer months, in preparation for the 4 days of meetings and debates that will enliven the city streets thanks to the competent intervention of Italian and international experts. The "forms of the future" that the Internet Festival 2018 is looking for starts from this concept: what is intelligence, where can we find it and how can we cultivate it?

 

The "T-Tour" # IF2018 call is now open for the reception of proposals to carry out educational and training activities on digital culture: «the selected proposals will compose the rich program of the T-Tours, the area entirely dedicated to to spread and encourage the informed use of the Network and innovative technological tools ». In this regard, one of the first news for 2018 is that the training offer "will be enhanced by the proposals for schools of the International Robotics Festival, for a common commitment to teaching and information on digital innovation" .

 

Internet Festival 2018: #sentiment

The Internet Festival 2018 will be held in Pisa from Thursday 11 October to Sunday 14 October. The key word of the new edition is #sentiment, a hashtag that will guide the exploration of the participants among the meshes of the great trends that are driving innovation in recent years.

 

«At the center of the IF2018 program are digital communities, with their relationship models, the interests and dynamics of" a digital #sentiment able to give life to social issues, to grow cultural movements, to make collective political opinions and experiments. economic, "say the organizers of the Pisan festival. But also the most current issues, starting from fake news and post truth, up to the controversial proposals for digital democracy ".

 

Starting from the fake news and the concept of post-truth, passing through new dimensions of democracy, the dynamics afferent to privacy and anti-terrorism, the relationship between Big Data and companies: the program is once again extremely dense, structured on the traditional footprint of the widespread festival that will also take place in this edition among numerous locations along the streets of the city center.