Johnny Ryan is Chief Innovation Officer of The Irish Times. He is also an associate on the emerging digital environment in the strategy & marketing group at the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge.
His second book A History of the Internet and the Digital Future was plugged by Marc Benioff and Cory Doctorow, and examines the trends that are shaping the emerging digital environment for business, politics, and media.
His writing has appeared in Fortune, BusinessWeek, Wired, The Huffington Post, and Ars Technica.
His PhD at the University of Cambridge examined how terrorist memes proliferate online – part of the subject of his first book. He was an O’Reilly Foundation Scholar at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Previously he was a senior researcher at the IIEA, where his work was the most cited source in the European Commission’s official impact assessment that decided against pursuing an EU-wide system of Internet censorship.
He has spoken at the UN, European Commission, OSCE, Google Europlex, Chatham House etc. To book him as a keynote speaker: See http://www.londonspeakerbureau.com/speaker-profiles/johnny-ryan
Author contact:
E-mail: johnnyryan1@gmail.com
Tel: +353-87-6725770


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