Tidiani Togola is the founder of the Democracy Tech Squad, a program focused on providing training and services to media and civil society organizations in Mali. He was the technical director of the National Agency for Telehealth and Medical Informatics, and has developed a web application that allows for impartial election monitoring in Mali. In…

Jatzel Román is the General Coordinator for the Latin American Youth Network for Democracy (Red JuventudLAC), which promotes democracy and human rights throughout the region. He is also a member of the Center for Analysis of Public Policy (CAPP), a pro-democracy think tank based in Santo Domingo. Román has represented CAPP as an election observer…

Maria Ressa is the CEO and founder of Rappler, a Filipino news website that promotes community engagement and social change. Ressa worked as a journalist for many years at CNN and later at ABS-CBN News, and later as an author-in-residence at the International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research in Singapore. Her book Seeds…

Xiao Qiang is the founder and editor-in-chief of China Digital Times, a bilingual China news website. He is also an adjunct professor in the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information and the principal investigator of the Counter-Power Lab, a faculty-student research group focusing on digital communication at Berkeley. He researches mapping political discourses in…