Giorgi Kakhiani

Giorgi is the co-founder of Nowrepost, an app allowing organizations, that fight for democracy, arm their followers with right data & information. Spreading micro-truths within trusted followers to be then circulated within their network of people. Giorgi has witnessed first-hand how anti-democratic forces exploit social media, fake news & massive propaganda to influence people's attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. To counter that Giorgi has created a human-centric digital communication mechanism. Giorgi holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a major in marketing. He has previous experience with entrepreneurship from founding two start-up companies and has a background in digital product and project management.

NOW REPOST - GIORGIA

Ketevan Bosikashvili

Ketevan is the CEO of Supernova. At Supernova they help media researchers and analysts to detect disinformation in real time using the biggest database hub. We detect suspicious relationships between specific people, political parties or companies in order to protect us agains fake news or against pro Russian activities. Ketevan graduated from Georgian Technical University's computer science faculty and she has worked for among others National Bank of Georgia. Ketevan has worked on lots of innovatied products like mobile transfer, and TI Bot.

SUPERNOVA - GEORGIA

Irakli Kavtaradze

Irakli heads a team of social scientists working on data visualisation and data analysis primarily on social issues. At Z-Axis we strive to bring positive social change in the society by analysing and visualising data from social media websites. We are trying to communicate important information that might be effective in everyday problem solving. we bring our academic knowledge into our work to guide our research and findings. Irakli is born and raised in Georgia, Tbilisi. He studied psychology at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. And attained a master’s degree in social psychology at Ilia State University.

Z-AXIS - GEORGIA

David Aragort

David Aragort is a digital rights advocate from Caracas, Venezuela. He works as a researcher on issues related to freedom of expression and access to information on the Internet and as a digital security trainer for journalists, activists, human rights defenders and other at-risk communities in Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia and Brazil. David wants to create a decentralized database in which citizens can send potential fake news, disinformation or misinformation to be verified, published or disproved by different fact-checking organizations during events of public interest such as elections or demonstrations.

FACT-ING DATABASE - VENEZUELA

Luis Fornez

Candydato is the easy way to fundraise and crowdfund a political campaign in Latin America. Access your neighborhood, county, or country’s voting rolls and reach them all via SMS, email, social media and IVR. Candydato aims to disrupt democracy the democratic way, from the ground up, by leveling the playing field, allowing non-traditional as well as established candidates to get their message out, and voters to support those that truly speak to them.

CANDYDATO - VENEZUELA

We invited the eight Democracy Tech Entrepreneur Fellows from Ukraine, Georgia and Venezuela to Copenhagen to present their solutions to problems facing democracies at the 2022 Copenhagen Democracy Summit.

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