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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.He 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 Head of Digital for the Make Your Mark campaign. In 2008 he co-founded Social Innovation Camp Social Innovation Camp which brings together ideas, people and digital tools to build web-based solutions to social problems in just 48 hours. In 2010 he led Social Innovation Camp Caucasus with participants from Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan. Dan is currently Head of Digital at Media for Development. He blogs about open source activism and social innovation at www.internetartizans.co.uk. "
