Dan Meredith

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

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]

References

  1. ↑ "BBG Leadership In Brussels For Internet Freedom Discussions". Broadcasting Board of Governors. Broadcasting Board of Governors. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
  2. 1 2 "SIM deadline to silence Nigeria?". Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera. Retrieved 29 Sep 2011.
  3. 1 2 James Glanz and John Markoff (June 12, 2011). "U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors". The New York Times . Retrieved August 8, 2011.
  4. 1 2 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. Archived from the original on October 14, 2014. Retrieved May 1, 2025.
  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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