Alberto Alemanno, Professor, TheGoodLobby. Presented at Crowdsourcing Week Europe 2015. For more information or to join the next event: http://crowdsourcingweek.com/

1. Lobbying for Good
Alberto Alemanno
@TheGoodLobby

5. but
what is the real impact?

6. 5 students out 100
How much students actually
learn in conventional education?

7. How often an average scientific article
is read?
?
around 10 times
and those who cite it generally don’t read it

8. system failure

9. Am I the only one?
Probably not.

12. we accumulate knowledge, acquire skills and
sometimes we just have talent
but incapable to fully exploit it
BEYOND our little world

13. True

16. yet
we have never been better
positioned to improve our
communities and the world

17. safer
live longer
richer
healthier

21. We are spectators. Not actors.
Consumers. Not citizens.

26. BUT
we FAIL to fully exploit our potential

27. How to make a difference?

28. How to make a difference?

29. Not for everyone
Voting is too little
Running is too much

30. Other ways to channel our talents for
the common good?

33. Prof. John Activist Jane
Aficionado readers: 450 Followers : 1.000.000
Book of the year
on Regulation of
migration
EU Regulation of migration

34. Prof. John’s PhDs

35. Prof. John’s students

38. Academia
+
Professionals
students
non-
profits

39. citizen lobbying
crowdsourcing expertise
for the greater good

40. Whylobbying?

41. unlike actual democracy,
lobbying works.

42. unlike actual democracy,
lobbying is for all.

43. lobbying is good for democracy.

46. how it works

48. the goal is to unleash the untapped
potential of academia, professionals
and students
reconnect to civic life

49. Yes, you got talent!