Sep 11, 2012
Sponsor: Forum
Liberation Technology: Instruments of Freedom or Tools of Repression?
featuring
Daniel Calingaerta, Freedom House
Rebecca MacKinnon, Global Voices Online
Xiao Qiang, China Digital Times
Rafal Rohozinski, SecDev Group
Larry Diamond, Journal of Democracy
Marc F. Plattner, International Forum for Democratic Studies
to celebrate the publication of
Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy
A Journal of Democracy book edited by
Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner
published in July 2012 by the Johns Hopkins University Press
Additional information on the book is available from the publisher :: visit
About the Speakers
Daniel Calingaert is vice president for policy and planning at Freedom House, which receives funding from the State Department, Google, and other sources to promote Internet freedom. He also teaches in Georgetown University’s M.A. Program in Democracy and Governance and at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.
Rebecca MacKinnon is a Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. She is cofounder of Global Voices Online, a global citizen-media network. Her first book, Consent of the Networked, was published in January 2012 by Basic Books.
Xiao Qiang is adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism of the University of California-Berkeley, principal investigator at CounterPower Lab, and founder and chief editor of China Digital Times. He has published numerous articles on China, human rights, and Internet politics in the International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Los Angeles Times, South China Morning Post and other major publications.
Rafal Rohozinski is a principal with the SecDev Group and former director of the Advanced Network Research Group of the Cambridge Security Programme. He is a cofounder of the OpenNet Initiative and the Information Warfare Monitor.
Larry Diamond is coeditor of the Journal of Democracy and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where he directs the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. His most recent book is The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World.
Marc F. Plattner is coeditor of the Journal of Democracy, vice-president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy, and co-chair of the research council of the International Forum for Democratic Studies. His latest book is Democracy without Borders? Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy.