User:Anelsona

{{user info 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 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.
 * full name = Anne Nelson
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 * organization = Columbia University
 * about me = I am an author and professor at Columbia's 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 Committee to Protect Journalists  (1988-1992) and the author of numerous works, including the play and feature film  The Guys and  Red Orchestra, a history of the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany.
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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. 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

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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