Rebecca Mackinnon Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Provide strategic leadership and direction to the Wikimedia Foundation’s growing public policy team; Continue Wikimedia’s efforts to establish and defend a legal and regulatory landscape essential to the future of free knowledge globally; Guide the public policy team on efforts to support the global movement of Wikimedia volunteers by promoting free expression and addressing national and regulatory threats that prevent access to knowledge.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

See consentofthenetworked.com This book is about the new realities of power, freedom, and control in the Internet age. The Internet can be a powerful tool in the hands of citizens seeking to hold governments and corporations to account – but only if we work to keep the Internet itself open and free.

Amsterdam, Nl

GlobalVoicesOnline.org is your guide to the most interesting conversations happening on blogs and other forms of online citizens media outside North America and Western Europe. Check it out!

Amsterdam, Nl

Check out our global citizen media community at Globalvoicesonline.org

New York, Ny, Us

See www.cpj.org

Washington, Dc, Us

Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) works to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet by creating global standards and incentives for companies to respect and protect users’ rights. We do this by ranking the world’s most powerful internet, mobile, and telecommunications companies on relevant commitments and policies, based on international human rights standards. We work with companies as well as advocates, researchers, investors, and policymakers to establish and advance global standards for corporate accountability. (See https://rankingdigitalrights.org)OUR INDEX: The 2019 RDR Corporate Accountability Index ranked 24 companies on their policies and disclosures affecting the freedom of expression and privacy of internet users across the world. (see https://rankingdigitalrights.org/index2019)OUR VISION: An internet that supports and sustains human rights.Governments have a duty to protect human rights – a duty that many states around the world are failing to meet. Yet their failure does not diminish the responsibility of companies to respect human rights. In fact, government failures make corporate responsibility even more important. Companies can be part of a worsening problem, or they can design and operate their technologies and businesses in a manner that protects and respects human rights. They must be transparent and accountable about how their digital platforms, services, and devices affect users’ human rights, especially privacy and expression.

Oakland, California, Us

I was a 2019-2020 Fellow with the University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. Project title: “From Campus to the Global Internet: Reclaiming Free Speech for Democracy and Human Rights in a Digitally Interconnected World”. February 2020 residency at UC Irvine, in collaboration with Prof. David Kaye.

Led an inter-disciplinary project called "New Technologies, Human Rights, and Transparency"http://cgcs.asc.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/projects.cgi?id=105&p=main

Co-teaching a new research seminar with Cynthia Wong of HRW: "Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility, and ICT"

Multistakeholder initiative to protect free expression and privacy in the ICT sector.

Washington, Dc, Us

Developed new projects focused on holding technology companies accountable to universally recognized rights to free expression and privacy, in collaboration with UPenn and others.

Washington, Dc, Us

Focusing on the intersection of the Internet, human rights, and foreign policy.

Princeton, Nj, Us

Conducted research and writing on my book.

The OSI Fellowship supported early work on my book.

Teaching "new media" and everything related to the intersection of journalism and the Internet.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

This was a volunteer role. Creative Commons Hong Kong is hosted by the Journalism and Media Studies Center, where I worked.

Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet.

The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is a center at Harvard's Law School with a broad mandate to examine the ways in which the internet is shaping our future. (For more see http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/) I came on a one-year fellowship, focusing on the ways in which weblogs and other forms of social media may change journalism. In 2005 I co-founded Global Voices Online, a global citizens media project hosted at the Berkman center. I also spent a great deal of time writing, researching and speaking about public discourse on the Chinese Internet - as well as the issue of Chinese Internet censorship and corporate responsibility.

I was one of five Spring semester fellows at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. Three of us were working journalists and two were academics who study the press. All of us had research projects and were expected to produce a research paper by the end of the semester. My project examined the future of journalism as it is being redefined by weblogs and other forms of internet-based, participatory journalism. More about the fellowship at http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/fellowships.shtml

Atlanta, Us

Before going on leave in January, I worked as CNN's only correspondent based in Japan, working with a team of 4 other people. In addition to covering everything that happens here, we were also involved in covering Korea (both North and South) and sometimes other stories in Asia as well - after 9/11 I was in Peshawar, Pakistan for nearly 2 months.

Atlanta, Us

As CNN's Beijing Bureau Chief and Correspondent, I covered China and North Korea. In total I worked for CNN in China under various job titles for nearly 9 years.

Atlanta, Us

I worked my way up from an entry-level Bureau Assistant job at CNN's Beijing bureau in 1992, moving through all existing producing/reporting jobs in the bureau until they made me Bureau Chief in 1998.