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Dan Meredith

Dan Meredith, also known as Dan Blah, is an Internet freedom supporter,[1] journalist,[2] technologist,[3] and media activist.[4][5] He currently is chief technologist at Reset, a privately funded non-profit funding organization.[6] He was a founding Director of the Open Technology Fund, a U.S. Government funded program created in 2012 at Radio Free Asia to support global Internet freedom, privacy-enhancing technologies, and Internet censorship circumvention technologies.[7][8] Meredith joined Al Jazeera's Transparency Unit in 2011,[9] led by Clayton Swisher,[10] where he increased communication security between investigative field journalists and their sources.[2][11] He was an early part of the Open Technology Institute in 2009, led by Sascha Meinrath.[12] While at OTI, Meredith was involved with: The "Internet in a Suitcase" project, a U.S. Department of State funded effort to create ad hoc mesh wireless technologies;[3] collaborated with Philadelphia community organizers to secure US$11.8 million from the federal Broadband Technology Opportunities Program;[13] and, worked on Network Neutrality court cases Hart v. Comcast and Comcast Corp. v. FCC with Robb Topolski,[14] who discovered Comcast blocking Bittorrent traffic in 2007.[15] Meredith was a co-founder and senior network engineer of the CUWiN Foundation, a non-profit launched in 2000 that aimed to develop "decentralized, community-owned networks that foster democratic cultures and local content".[16] He was an active Indymedia volunteer throughout the mid 2000s at the Champaign-Urbana Independent Media Center (UCIMC) and its low power FM radio station, Radio Free Urbana WRFU-LP.[4][17] Meredith joined the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative as an inaugural appointee to its Advisory Board in 2014.[18]

Dan Meredith
Other namesDan Blah
CitizenshipAmerican
Occupation(s)Director, Open Technology Fund
EmployerRadio Free Asia

References edit

  1. ^ "BBG Leadership In Brussels For Internet Freedom Discussions". Broadcasting Board of Governors. Broadcasting Board of Governors. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
  2. ^ a b "SIM deadline to silence Nigeria?". Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera. Retrieved 29 Sep 2011.
  3. ^ a b James Glanz and John Markoff (June 12, 2011). "U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors". The New York Times. Retrieved August 8, 2011.
  4. ^ a b Gillespie, Joel. "Dan Blah opens up about IMC Fest". Smile Politely. Smile Politely. Retrieved April 15, 2009.
  5. ^ Judkis, Maura. "In D.C., private 'bucket list' dreams become public art". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
  6. ^ "Reset People". Reset. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  7. ^ Harris, Shane; Hudson, John. "Not Even the NSA Can Crack the State Dept's Favorite Anonymous Network". No. The Cable. Foreign Policy Magazine. Retrieved Oct 4, 2013.
  8. ^ "Open Technology Fund Team". Open Technology Fund. Archived from the original on 29 April 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  9. ^ "About the Transparency Unit". Al Jazeera Transparency Unit. Al Jazeera Network. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  10. ^ "Clayton Swisher". AlJazeera.com. Al Jazeera Media Network. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  11. ^ "Dan Meredith a.k.a. Dan Blah's Resume / C.V." Dan Blah dot com. Archived from the original on 30 August 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  12. ^ "Dan Meredith: All Related Content". New America Foundation. Retrieved 9 August 2014.[permanent dead link]
  13. ^ "The Open Technology Initiative Helps Bring $11.8 Million for Broadband Adoption in Philadelphia". Newamerica.net. New America Foundation. Archived from the original on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  14. ^ Calabrese, Michael; Meinrath, Sascha; Lennett, Benjamin; Meredith, Dan; Topolski, Robb. "Reply Comments on Preserving Open Internet and Broadband Industry Practices". Newamerica.net. New America Foundation. Archived from the original on 17 June 2011. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  15. ^ Roth, Daniel. "The Dark Lord of Broadband Tries to Fix Comcast's Image". Condé Nast. Wired.com. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
  16. ^ "CUWiN Core Staff". CUWiN on the Internet Archive. Archived from the original on April 20, 2007. Retrieved Apr 20, 2007.
  17. ^ Dixon, Vince. "Urbana media center festival aims to raise funds". Illini Media. The Daily Illini. Archived from the original on September 25, 2014. Retrieved November 9, 2007.
  18. ^ "Core Infrastructure Initiative: Who's on the Advisory Board?". Linux Foundation. Archived from the original on 8 July 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2014.


 

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