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Dan Meredith is an activist and technologist working with journalists to explore emerging trends that cross into human rights, transparency, global communication policy, the Internet, and information security. As a senior technology fellow at New America Foundation, Mr. Meredith worked with Open Technology Initiative staff to operationalize new technology pilot projects and bring together global communities to educate, demystify, and evangelize open, distributed, and decentralized technologies that fight censorship and disrupt authoritarianism.

In the past decade, he has consulted with U.S. government agencies including the Federal Communications Commission, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Department of State, and the Department of Defense. He has helped leading technology firms including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Google, Skype, and BitTorrent to develop and publish technology policy recommendations. He continues collaborating with the Open Source Wireless Coalition, Acorn Active Media Foundation, the CUWiN Foundation, and the Indymedia movement.