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is the co-founder of , and a senior fellow at the which is a think-tank where work is done on Internet policy issues.

Rebecca's incredibly smart and incredibly busy, so it was great to have a moment to sit down and talk about her work. We chatted about the state of the Internet today and where there are threats to change that status for better or worse.

Global Voices has many bridge reporters who monitor the frontline on the web. As the Arab Spring rolls on and Syria sees more bloodshed, even when under threat, citizen reporters are still recording the events that happen around them as a matter of record.

Not only do people take huge risks to record the violence, but bridge reporters or those people who work between the reports that we see on news websites and the raw footage that can be found on sites like Youtube, also expose themselves to quite heavy doses of recorded violence.

is a Spanish and Syrian human rights activist, she teaches communications at Carlos the Third University in Madrid as well as contributing reports to Global Voices and many other mainstream media outlets. I caught up with her in Kenya and we talked about the pros and cons of monitoring citizen media.

That's all for this week but In the meantime you can let me know what lights your fires on the Web or electronically, by dropping me a line.

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Until next week!
~ Jamillah