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For its Shanghai rideshare submission, Bandwagon – launched in 2013 – conducted extensive research on the city’s transportation infrastructure, while developing the mobile web version of its software for this context.
Described by Czech award-winning author Ivan Klima as „one of the most outstanding novels written in the Czech lands since 1989,“ Jiří Pehe’s book tells the story of three generations of a Czech-German-Jewish family in the 20th century. [Photo Credit: (c) Vaclav Havel Library / Vojtěch Stádník]
The conference was co-organized by two Prague-based NGOs: Keynote and the newsmagazine Transitions Online. Jeremy Druker, Professor of Social Media Networking at NYU Prague and the co-founder of Transitions Online, explained their motivation for organizing the event: “Academics and working journalists don’t often mix. So we decided to create a rare opportunity where researchers on the media’s transition would sit side-by-side on panels with journalists experiencing that very transition from the inside.”