Asia Catalyst Announces Leadership Transition

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Capacity-builder of Non-Governmental Organizations in Asia Expands and Announces Interim Director

(New York, November 15, 2012)–The non-profit incubator Asia Catalyst announced today that Sara L.M. Davis will leave her post as executive director to join the Global Fund in January 2013. Dr. Davis, who is also known as Meg, is the organization’s founder.  The Board of Directors has appointed Andrea Worden, a lawyer and human rights advocate, as Acting Executive Director.

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[COMMENTARY] Consent of the Networked

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For the past few weekends, I’ve been gradually deleting information from my Facebook account. Each Sunday, a few more photos come down. That’s because I read Rebecca MacKinnon’s call to arms, Consent of the Networked, which shows that Facebook, Twitter, and Google are acquiring the size and power of nation-states, but without the democratic accountability or transparency citizens may demand of the states that govern them. Mackinnon asks, “How do we make sure that people with power over our digital lives will not abuse that power?”

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