Dan Arnaudo is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Getulio Vargas Foundation’s School of Communications in Rio and a Cybersecurity Fellow with the University of Washington. He is also a Senior Advisor with the BBC Media Action group developing new programming and networks, and has also consulted with a wide range of organizations on information and technology issues, including the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, the Carnegie Endowment, NYU and NASA. For eight years, he led the National Democratic Institute’s initiative on information integrity (Info/tegrity) as well as its work to build a collective of democracy supporting organizations to engage with tech companies, the Design 4 Democracy (D4D) Coalition, and also led its membership application in GNI. He managed NDI’s engagement as well as its broader approach to the tech industry.
He has dual masters degrees with the University of Washington’s Information School, and the Jackson School of International Studies, where his thesis and capstone work focused on Brazil’s model of Internet governance, including the application of the Marco Civil da Internet, its Internet Bill of Rights, as well as its Internet Steering Committee (CGI) and other laws, policies and initiatives. He has developed research, blogs, traditional media and an online profile to study and explain digital rights, information and media literacy, tech accountability and internet governance issues to a global audience. In 2017, he developed cutting edge research with the Oxford Internet Institute on Computational Propaganda in Brazil.