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§01 — Documentary

Think Freedom: The Firestone

Friedrich Naumann Foundation · dir. Anna Stoeva · prod. Tanuki Films · 2025

Premiered Dec 3, 2025 · Cinema Victoria, Timișoara · Documentary page →

§02 — Bios

Bio in three lengths.

Copy-paste any of these. Every claim in them is backed by a citation below.

50 words · podcast intros, event programs

Florin Bădiță is a Romanian engineer, founder, and civic technologist. Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe (2018) and Euronews European Personality of the Year. He founded Corupția Ucide, the movement that mobilized 600,000 protesters against corruption in Romania. He builds AI-native data platforms at Scrape The World and DomainScope.

100 words · conference programs, partnership intros

Florin Bădiță is a Romanian engineer, founder, and civic technologist working where data infrastructure meets democratic accountability. He founded Corupția Ucide (“Corruption Kills”) after the 2015 Colectiv tragedy; the movement grew to 156,000+ members and mobilized 600,000 protesters in 2017, forcing the withdrawal of Ordinance 13. Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe (Law & Policy, 2018) and Euronews European Personality of the Year. TEDx speaker. He now leads Scrape The World (web-scale OSINT) and DomainScope (7M+ domains across 77 markets, LLM-categorized) on self-hosted infrastructure he writes and operates end-to-end. Subject of Think Freedom: The Firestone (Friedrich Naumann Foundation, 2025).

250 words · keynote programs, long-form press

Florin Bădiță is a Romanian engineer, founder, and civic technologist whose work spans large-scale data infrastructure, AI-native platforms, and democratic accountability. In 2015, after the Colectiv nightclub fire killed 64 people in Bucharest — including a close friend — he founded Corupția Ucide (“Corruption Kills”). The movement grew to 156,000+ followers and coordinated 600,000 protesters across more than fifty Romanian cities in February 2017 — the largest demonstrations since the fall of communism in 1989 — forcing the government to withdraw the emergency ordinance that would have decriminalized certain abuses of office. During the protest cycle he coordinated 650 volunteers across 11 time zones using Slack and Monday.com. He built the civic data backbone behind the work: 15,000+ Freedom-of-Information requests to 5,000+ public bodies under the ACTFOIA methodology, with pipelines feeding RISE Project and OCCRP. On the commercial side, he is founder and CEO of Scrape The World, operating web-scale scraping with more than a million sites indexed and billions of data points captured, and founder/CTO of DomainScope, an AI-driven domain intelligence platform covering 7M+ domains across 77 markets. He runs ServerClaw, an open-source AI-native infrastructure platform documented across 443+ Architecture Decision Records, and teaches the practice through his ADR-Driven Development masterclass. Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe (Law & Policy, 2018). Euronews European Personality of the Year (2018). Speaker at TEDxBratislava, HOPE XV, GIJC, POINT, and Rockit Digital Summit. Subject of Think Freedom: The Firestone (FNF, 2025). Tech Director, House of Collaboration at Davos 2026. Lives in Arad, Romania.

§03 — Names & titles

How to refer to me in print.

  • Florin Bădiță-Nistor — full legal name; use in formal credit lines and visa-bearing programs.
  • Florin Bădiță — preferred byline. The diacritics matter; please keep them.
  • Florin Bădiță — what colleagues call me. Acceptable for podcast and informal program copy.
  • Pronouns: he / him. Languages: Romanian, English, Spanish, Italian.
§04 — Press inventory

Press citations. Named coverage only.

Every row links to the primary source. Where the piece covers the protests Florin organized but doesn’t name him directly, the row is labeled as such.

OutletTitleDateType
The New York TimesProtests Rock Romania After Government Weakens Corruption LawFeb 12, 2017Protests
BBC NewsRomania protests grow over corruption decreeFeb 1, 2017Protests
Reuters‘We see you’ — Romanian activists become potent political force2017Profile
The GuardianRomania crisis deepens as anti-corruption protest enters fourth dayFeb 3, 2017Protests
openDemocracy#Rezist. Citizens are back on the streets in Romania · Raluca AbăseacăFeb 2017Movement
EuronewsEuropean Personality of the Year: Florin BaditaMay 31, 2018Profile
Digi24Florin Bădiță, fondatorul „Corupția ucide", desemnat „Personalitatea europeană a anului"May 2018Profile (RO)
HotNews.roFlorin Bădiță, fondatorul „Corupția Ucide", a primit premiul EuronewsMay 2018Profile (RO)
AdevărulFlorin Bădiță, fondatorul „Corupția ucide", este „Personalitatea europeană a anului" · Remus FlorescuMay 2018Profile (RO)
Transilvania ReporterForbes 30 Under 30: Florin Bădiță, fondatorul „Corupția ucide" · Maria ManJan 2018Profile (RO)
Waging NonviolenceHow repression is fueling Romania's anti-corruption movement · Alexandru PredoiuOct 2018Movement
Forbes30 Under 30 Europe · Law & PolicyJan 2018Recognition
NPRTens Of Thousands Of Romanians Protest CorruptionAug 13, 2018Movement
BuzzFeed NewsThese People Say Their Facebook Accounts Were Locked For Posting About ProtestsNov 28, 2017Profile
TIMEEverything to Know About Romania's Anti-Corruption ProtestsFeb 6, 2017Movement
Friedrich Naumann Fdn.Think Freedom: The Firestone · documentary2025Documentary
Friedrich Naumann Fdn.Human Rights Defenders · Florin Bădiță2024Profile
TEDxBratislavaCivic change is a marathon, not a sprintNov 16, 2018Talk
Wikipedia2017–2019 Romanian protestsReference
OCCRPRomania: Protests Grow, Minister Resigns Over Corruption DecreeFeb 2, 2017Movement
Humanity in ActionLandecker Democracy Senior FellowFellowship
Romania InsiderRomanian selected on Forbes 30 under 30 EuropeJan 25, 2018Profile
VICE RomaniaAm vorbit cu Florin Bădiță (RO)2017Profile
Foreign PolicyA National Trauma May Win Romania Its First OscarApr 25, 2021Movement
Society for Cultural AnthropologyCorruption Kills · field essayJan 2019Scholarly
Curtea Veche PublishingCorupția ucide? · Oana Zamfirache (coord.), 11 contributors · edited volume named after the movement2019Book
Bloomsbury / I.B. TaurisRebuilding European Democracy: Resistance and Renewal in an Illiberal Age · Richard Youngs · ISBN 978-0-7556-3971-72022Book
GândulArmata #Rezist se regrupează — Florin Bădiță, fondatorul „Corupția Ucide" · Adrian Nicolae2025Profile (RO)
Portavoce (doc.)The Romanian Culture of Protest2018Documentary
Cited in academic literature · 10 entries
  1. Gubernat, R. & Rammelt, H. (2017). Anti-Corruption Protests in Romania from a perspective of Social Media mobilization efforts. SCOPE conference. — Semi-structured interview with Florin Bădiță. Link
  2. Pătruț, M. (2022). “Nu plecăm până nu plecați!” — A Case Study on the Rise of the Digital Civic Activism in Romania (2015–2018). BRAIN. Link
  3. Patrut, M. & Stoica, V. (2019). Romanian Rezist Protest. How Facebook Helps Fight Political Corruption. Revista de Cercetare și Intervenție Socială. Link
  4. Buzasu, C. (2019). After protest: Pathways beyond mass mobilization in Romania. Carnegie Europe. PDF
  5. Gubernat, R. & Rammelt, H. P. (2021). “Vrem o țară ca afară!”: How Contention in Romania Redefines State-Building through a Pro-European Discourse. East European Politics and Societies (Sage). Link
  6. Gubernat, R. (2017). Recreative activism in Romania. Socio.hu. Cited 19×.
  7. Haliliuc, A. (2018). Walking into democratic citizenship. M/C Journal.
  8. Youngs, R. (2019). After protest: Pathways beyond mass mobilization.
  9. Ungureanu, D. (2024). Memescape narratives of Romanian social movements (2013–2021). Media & Jornalismo.
  10. Bădiță, F. (2023). 1337 Use Cases for ChatGPT & other Chatbots in the AI-Driven Era. Cited 2× in academic literature.
  11. Gherasim-Proca, O. (2022). Review of Zamfirache (coord.), Corupția ucide? Curtea Veche, 2019. Scientific Annals of "Al. I. Cuza" Univ. of Iași — Political Science, vol. 17(1). Link
§05 — Recognitions

Awards, fellowships, named appointments.

  • Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe · Law & Policy · 2018
  • Euronews European Personality of the Year · 2018
  • Landecker Democracy Senior Fellow · Alfred Landecker Foundation × Humanity in Action
  • Humanity in Action Senior Fellow
  • Democracy Defenders Accelerator · 2023
  • Draper University alumnus
  • Founder University · Cohort 4
  • Harvard Online certified — Power & Influence for Positive Impact
  • World Bank consultant — Kasai Health Region, DRC (200,000 buildings · 2022 · UPI #465044) & urban slum mapping (Romania · 2014)
  • Tech Director · House of Collaboration · Davos 2026
§06 — Booking

One email. One link.

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