Andrew Hilts
Biography:
ANDREW HILTS is the Executive Director and research lead at Open Effect. His research work and software development focuses on empowering citizens to exercise their digital rights online, and has been featured in both Canadian and international media. As a research fellow at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, Andrew collaborates with researchers working on the Telecom Transparency Project, and investigations into web-based surveillance and other forms of information controls.
Andrew’s work has been published in conferences such as the Surveillance and Technology Symposium, Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and the Free and Open Communications on the Internet workshop. He has a Master of Information degree from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information, where he conducted advanced research on tools and resources to empower designers of e-democracy systems.
Source: https://openeffect.ca/about
Activities:
- 2018-03-22 – Walter Gordon Symposium — Making Policy Count: The Social Implications of Data-Driven Decision-Making