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Robert Bjarnason
Robert Bjarnason joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about the Citizens Foundation and how technology supports participatory democracy.
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Automatic transcription, there may be errors. Host: Alessandro Oppo Guest: Robert Bjarnason, Co-founder of the Citizen Foundation Alessandro Oppo: Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovator podcast. Our guest today is Robert Bjarnason, the co-founder of the Citizen Foundation and many other things, but I think you will tell us something about this in this episode. Thank you for being here. Robert Bjarnason: Thanks for inviting me. Alessandro Oppo: As a first question, what is the Citizen Foundation and how did you start it? Robert Bjarnason: The Citizen Foundation is a nonprofit - we're actually two nonprofits. One is registered in Iceland and also one is American in the US. It started in 2008. I was actually living in London at the time when the financial crisis hit Iceland. Iceland was a pretty vulnerable victim, and over a period of time, all the news was about Iceland being ba
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