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At a glance
Quick facts
Agora
Co-founder, with Yishai (Jesse) Stern
A non-partisan US civic platform, in alpha. Not raising money right now.
Background
Years of work on innovation in government
Agora is independent of any government body. I speak only for myself.
Book
The Civic Gap
About what democracy asks of the people who have it. Full draft, in revision, no date yet.
Education
Master’s in diplomacy, Tel Aviv University
Before that, political science and economics.
Languages
Hebrew · French · English
Hebrew and French natively, English fluently, and some Spanish.
Official channels
This site, LinkedIn and tryagora.org
Anyone claiming to be me from elsewhere? Please check with me here first.
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Bios
25-word bio
Tomer Rozenberg co-founded Agora, a non-partisan US civic platform for participation between elections. He has years of experience in government innovation and is writing The Civic Gap.
75-word bio
Tomer Rozenberg co-founded Agora with Yishai (Jesse) Stern. Agora is a non-partisan civic platform where officials share what they’re deciding and the people they represent can respond, between elections. Tomer has spent years working on innovation in government and holds a master’s in diplomacy from Tel Aviv University. He is writing The Civic Gap, a book about what democracy asks of the people who have it, and has published three books on philosophy and everyday life.
150-word bio
Tomer Rozenberg co-founded Agora with Yishai (Jesse) Stern. It’s a non-partisan civic platform for participation between elections: elected officials share what they’re deciding, and the people they represent can respond. Offices see what their own constituents think, apart from outside noise, and can answer in public. Agora is in alpha in the United States and open to early testers, with guided app tours.
Tomer has spent years working on innovation in government. He studied political science and economics and holds a master’s in diplomacy from Tel Aviv University.
He is writing The Civic Gap, a book about what democracy asks of the people who have it. He has published three books on philosophy and everyday life, and is launching Between Votes, a letter on Substack.
Photos
Free to use
With credit to Tomer Rozenberg. High-resolution versions on request.
Press contact
How to reach me
Use the contact form and choose “Media” or “Speaking”. On deadline? Put “Deadline” and the date in your message.
Interviews in Hebrew, French or English; some Spanish.
What I talk about
Topics
1
Having a say after election day
Why the years between votes matter most, and what a working channel between residents and their representatives looks like.
2
What 51 civic-tech stories taught us
The recurring patterns behind platforms that tried to connect people and government, and what to learn from them.
3
Innovation from the inside
How new ideas actually move through government. Speaking for myself only.
4
The label and the thing
What we actually mean by democracy, and what keeping it costs. From The Civic Gap.
For interviewers
Good questions to ask me
- Why do so many civic-tech platforms fail, and what do the survivors have in common?
- What does an elected official’s office actually need to hear from residents?
- Can technology help democracy without becoming social media?
- What’s the difference between being heard and being counted?
- What does it mean to mistake the label for the thing?
Tomer Rozenberg
Co-founder of Agora · writing The Civic Gap
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Keynotes, panels, podcast and radio interviews, guest lectures. In Hebrew, French or English.
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