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| full name = Anne Nelson

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| organization = Columbia University

| about me = I am an author and professor at Columbia's [https://sipa.columbia.edu/ Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)]. I have been teaching courses at Columbia on international human rights and digital media in a development context for over two decades. I am the former director of the [https://www.cpj.org/online_discussion/anne_nelson_bio.html Committee to Protect Journalists] (1988-1992) and the author of numerous works, including the play and feature film The Guys and [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/books/review/Herzog-t.html Red Orchestra], a history of the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany.

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My Work:

I use Wikipedia extensively in my classes, often through comparative studies of content in different languages, combined with exercises in editing. I have been especially interested in extending the benefits of digital media to resource-challenged parts of the world with little connectivity and erratic power supplies. In 2016 I led a [http://admissionsblog.sipa.columbia.edu/tag/ict4cuba/ research seminar] on digital infrastructure in Cuba. We are now building on our findings to explore the potential of offline platforms to support medical training in rural areas of Latin America.

Selected works

=Wikipedia projects=

New Media and Development at Columbia University, a pilot class at the 2011 founding of the Wikipedia Education Program
Graduate research project on the challenges of creating Wikipedia content in Arabic. [https://newmediadev2011.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Wikimedia+in+the+Arab+World Wikimedia in the Arab World]
Wiki Loves the Dominican Republic, a 2017 class project with School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and various wiki community groups

=Presentations=

{{Citation |last=Nelson |first=Anne |date=23 February 2013 |title=Using Wikipedia in a Multilingual Classroom |work=Wikipedia Day 2013 NYC |publisher=Internet Society New York Chapter |publication-place=New York City |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Using_Wikipedia_in_a_Multilingual_Classroom_-_Anne_Nelson.ogv |accessdate=19 January 2017}}
{{Citation |last=Nelson |first=Anne |date=8 October 2016 |title=Wikipedia Cuba: Challenges and Opportunities |work=WikiConference North America 2016 San Diego |publisher=United States Wikimedians |publication-place=New York City |url=https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions:2016/Wikipedia_Cuba:_Challenges_and_Opportunities |accessdate=19 January 2017}}
{{Citation |last1=Astrakhan |first1=Yuri |last2=Dutt |first2=Avik |last3=Nelson |first3=Anne |last4=Backer |first4=Alice |date=15 January 2017 |title=Multinational Panel |work=Wikipedia Day 2016 NYC |publisher=Internet Society New York Chapter |publication-place=New York City |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Day_NYC_Jan_15_2017_-_03_International_-_Multilingual_Wikipedia_Panel.ogg |accessdate=19 January 2017}}

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E-mail: my first name [dot] my last name @gmail.com
Please see https://columbia.academia.edu/ANelson/Papers for my publications on digital media and international development

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