Gianpaolo D’Amico and Nicola Torpei, researchers of the Media Integration and Communication Center participate to Internet Better Life, an event dedicated to the web, the social media and the world of digital communications: two days dedicated to reflection and debate on new forms of participation and the effects of the cultural revolution that we are living.

Internet Better Life

The event is organized by Fondazione Sistema Toscana, Regione Toscana and intoscana.it in collaboration with Google, Augmendy, Sisifo, Novamont, APT and Florence Promhotels.

The theme of the second edition is “The Internet Better Life”: a debate that will focus on how Internet and the Web 2.0 can help to improve the lives of individuals and to vehicle different and richer knowledge by changing relationships between people and effectively transforming social action with an extended and participatory approach.

Gianpaolo D'Amico and Nicola Torpei

In the morning of June 29 Gianpaolo D’Amico speaks at the workshop “Internet Better Business” in cooperation with ToscanaIN: an interactive session coordinated by Laura De Benedetto, Suzi Jenkins, Tommaso Olivieri and Alessandro Sordi. The workshop will focus on the analysis of whether and how Internet has improved the lives of employers and employees and on the future trends regarding the web advertising.

In the afternoon Nicola Torpei has his five minutes at Ignite Better Life “five minutes to tell us how Internet has improved their lives or how we could improve ours” and present “The City of Knowledge: ShareDesk. An advanced solution for multimedia enjoyment through natural interaction”.