About Francis
Bio
Author, columnist, speaker, Francis Pisani analyzes information technology’s social and geopolitical impacts.
After being based for fifteen years in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has just completed a yearlong world tour of innovation in ICT: 45 cities, 32 countries, 5 continents. Published in French, Spanish, Portuguese and English, his blog "Winch5" is being adapted into a book.
He is currently working on a world tour of smart and innovative cities.
A long time journalist, his articles have been published by more than 100 publications on four continents, including by many newspapers of record (Le Monde, El País). Among other books, he co-authored with Dominique Piotet the award winning How the web is changing the world (Pearson).
Francis has lectured at UC-Berkeley and at Stanford University. He was a '93 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He has earned his doctorate in Political Science-Latin American Studies at La Sorbonne (Paris).