Rosy Russo
Ashoka Fellow since 2023   |   Italy

Rosy Russo

Parole Ostili
Rosy Russo is creating a movement of responsible digital citizenship in Italy to advocate, provide tools, and normalize behavior online that is responsible, tolerant, and inclusive. In doing so, she…
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This description of Rosy Russo's work was prepared when Rosy Russo was elected to the Ashoka Fellowship in 2023.

Introduction

Rosy Russo is creating a movement of responsible digital citizenship in Italy to advocate, provide tools, and normalize behavior online that is responsible, tolerant, and inclusive. In doing so, she is reversing the course that the digital world is currently manifesting, from being a place whereRead more

The New Idea

As the Internet and the World Wide Web proliferate, people live increasingly hybrid lives where the physical and the digital, the real and the virtual, inevitably interact. In this world, online and offline identities may overlap and interdigitate, erasing prior boundaries in social, cultural,Read more

The Problem

The internet supports a global ecosystem of social interaction. Modern life revolves around the network, with its status updates, news feeds, comment chains, political advocacy, omnipresent reviews, rankings, and ratings. For the first few decades, this connected world was idealized as anRead more

The Strategy

Rosy is taking a multi-stakeholder approach to address the rampant problem of anti-social behavior online. She is shifting the recognized and accepted strategy of ‘course correction’ to one where a normative shift is created in her country that pulls institutions, organizations, and individuals toRead more

The Person

Rosy’s earliest influences in her life that she recalls was during junior school where she took Classical Studies. It was during this tenure that she became fascinated in the connection between communication and human interaction. This led her to study design and communication in the city ofRead more

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