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"After a Ph.D in Experimental Particle Physics, Dan worked with people with learning disabilities and as a mental health advocate. He took an early interest in the potential of the Internet for social change and founded Multikulti, a community-led multilingual site for asylum seekers & refugees which won a Global Ideas Bank Social Innovations Award, and SocialSource, an independent collective advocating for open source in the voluntary sector. After some personal experiences of human rights abuses, Dan joined Amnesty International as global web manager where he added some oomph to their ecampaigning by introducing blogging and the use of social networks. Recognising that the web was becoming a key terrain for human rights struggle, he headed Amnesty’s first delegation to the UN’s Internet Governance Forum. Dan is a former Director of The Open Rights Group and is lead consultant for Interactive Tech Tools for Transparency which uses crowdsourcing and mashups to promote anti-corruption and good governance in Central & Eastern Europe. His current post is Digital Guru for the Make Your Mark campaign. In 2007 he co-founded Social Innovation Camp and he blogs about open source activism and social innovation at www.internetartizans.co.uk. "