Dan McQuillan is the Interim Program Director, Internet & E-communications Program at Amnesty International. He was previously a senior consultant in Lasa's Information Systems Team, specialising in the innovative application of technology to the needs of the non-profit sector. He set up the Multikulti project, a pioneering multilingual website which delivers advice information in 12 languages, in collaboration with Bengali, Farsi & Urdu open source projects. Outside of work, Dan was a co-founder of the volunteer run 'Social Software' project which aims to bring the benefits of open source software to the voluntary & community sector.

Session: Human rights and new communication technologies: building an architecture of participation