Draft:Korinna Patelis


Korinna Patelis (Athens, 1972) is a theorist, consultant and policy maker. Born in Athens, she is an Internet pioneer with a Phd on the Political Economy of the Internet from Goldsmiths College London about the Web. She curated the digital campaign that elected Syriza in 2015, as well as the campaign for equal marriage in Greece, Dipla sou. She has taught in the UK, Greece and Cyprus, and introduced the concept of technocapitalism.

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Great granddaughter of Sappho Leontias and granddaughter of Korinna and Johnny Kaloghiros, who  was an industrialist in Alexandria, Korinna was raised in Athens and got a degree in Philosophy and Politics at the University of Warwick. Her brother is Alex Patelis, a politician. She is a mother of two boys.

Theories and politics

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Patelis is most known from her work in the thesis formulated in the early 1990s. An internet pioneer, she left academia to consult .com businesses and governments across Europe . She coined the term technocapitalism and in 2011 she conceptualizes the Unlike Us network. In 2016 she joined a bunch of economists to create ESCA .

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