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This work has focused on policy and innovations to foster universal broadband access and adoption, digital and media literacy, local journalism and information hubs, public service media, civic engagement, and government transparency. Nigel is also a fellow at the Center for the Advancement Public Action at Bennington College.
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” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. “Trump Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself” – a translation of an article that appeared in Das Magazin in December about Cambridge Analytica and the use of psychological profiling and Facebook.
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