Silvia Ortega
Youth Department @ Barcelona City Council
Bio
Silvia Ortega is PhD in Physics (2017) from the University of Barcelona. She began her career in the Barcelona City Council as a technician in the Youth Department in 2018. Her main tasks are monitoring the actions included in the Adolescence and Youth Plan and to improve the communication of municipal youth services and resources. Since 2021 Silvia has been involved in the organisation and monitoring of the outcomes of the participatory process Fòrum Jove BCN [Youth Agora BCN]. As a result, she has been one of the key pieces on the conceptualisation, development and implementation of the new communication strategy “Joves de Barcelona” [Youth of Barcelona], responding to one of the greatest demands arising from Fòrum Jove BCN.
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1º panel: Tech, Youth and Democracy
This panel will explore how younger generations are engaging socially and politically through technology, how they are innovating in their social activism and how they are addressing the challenges of disinformation in Europe. The panel will approach these issues from a risk-opportunity logic, trying to detect which factors may help to tip the balance on the side of strengthening democracy.