Wikipedia creates new role to strengthen its battle for free knowledge
The Wikimedia Foundation announced the creation of a new role in its efforts to protect free knowledge against growing threats. Rebecca MacKinnon, a digital rights expert and media freedom advocate, has joined the Foundation as its first Vice President for Global Advocacy.
“Rebecca joins our team at a time when it is increasingly urgent to establish and defend access to open knowledge,” said Amanda Keton, General Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation.
The VP for Global Advocacy will provide strategic leadership and direction to the Wikimedia Foundation’s growing public policy team, and continue Wikimedia’s efforts to establish and defend a legal and regulatory landscape essential to the future of free knowledge globally.
“I have built my career around advocating for people’s digital rights and defending against legal and technological threats that undermine democracy. Wikimedia plays a unique role in the international information landscape”, said MacKinnon.
Rebecca was most recently the founding director of Ranking Digital Rights (RDR), a program at New America that works to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet through the creation of global standards and incentives for technology companies to respect and protect users’ rights.
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