Simona Levi

Simona Levi is the founder of Xnet, Barcelona, Spain.  In 2017, the Rolling Stone magazine chose Simona Levi as one of the 25 people in the World who are shaping the future. She is a theatre director, playwright, technopolitical strategist and researcher.

Since 2017, she has been designing and directing the Postgraduate Degree in Technopolitics and Rights in the Digital Era at the University of Barcelona.
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She is the founder and spokesperson of the projects like 15MPARATO, which led to jail the former Minister of Economy and President of IMF and 15 more politicians, or Xnet, a leading Spanish activist project in the fields related to digital rights, democracy, freedom of expression, and citizens’ control of power and institutions.

She is the promotor and co-author of several books amongst which:

• #FakeYou: Fake News and Disinformation – Governments, political parties, mass media, corporations, big fortunes: monopolies of information manipulation and cuts in freedom of expression (published by Rayo Verde, 2019)
• Vote and charge. Impunity as a form of government (published by Capitan Swing, 2017)
• Technopolitics, the Internet and R-evolutions and Free Digital Culture: Basic Notions for Defending What Belongs to Everyone (published by Icaria, 2012)

Her shows have been performed at theatres and festivals throughout Europe and she has created high-impact festivals like OXcars and InnMotion.

Keynote

Title of the talk: The Bookbinder and the Exorcist: The Future of Digitalisation in Education (and Everything Else Besides)

“We are guided by an elite that uses digital technology
but not digital rationality”

Alessandro Baricco

Public policies relating to digital tend to oscillate between carefree techno-solutionism and technophobic neo-Luddism. The result of these neurotic lurches in approach to policy, where the educational community is lectured about the dangers of technology while at the same time being thrust into the arms of large digital corporations, is that such corporations now control and monitor the vast majority of educational establishments… and, with that, the behaviour of students, teachers and families. But in fact, things can be different. We will look at a practical example: our plan, drawn up with families, on the Privacy and Democratic Digitalisation of Schools, recently accepted as a pilot by the City Council of Barcelona.