Micah L. Sifry is a writer, editor, and democracy activist. As co-founder and editorial director of Personal Democracy Media, he helps run the annual PDF conference and daily techPresident.com news-site, which focus on the ways technology is changing politics, government and civil society. He is also a senior adviser to the Sunlight Foundation, which he helped found in 2006, and serves on the boards of Consumer Reports and the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science. He is the author or editor of six previous books, most recently WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency. In the spring of 2012 he taught “The Politics of the Internet” at Harvard’s Kennedy School. His personal blog is at micah.sifry.com and you can follow him on Twitter at @mlsif

THE BIG DISCONNECT Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet) In his usual pithy, to-the-point style, Micah L. Sifry explores why data-driven politics and our digital overlords have failed or misled us, and how they can be made to serve us instead, in a real balance between citizens and state, independent of corporations. More

WIKILEAKS AND THE AGE OF TRANSPARENCY “A report from the trenches where a wide array of small-d democracy and transparency activists are hard at work…using new tools and methods to open up previously closed and powerful institutions and make them more accountable.” —from the author’s introduction More