About us
Dmitri Vitaliev is an independent consultant working on digital security and privacy within the human rights and independent media sector. He has led and participated in missions to over 30 countries, and has eight years of experience in technology training. He is the author of the Digital Security and Privacy for Human Rights Defenders manual and was a leading member of the NGO-in-a-Box Security Edition project. He has helped to create a worldwide network of trainers, developed curricula for various security trainings and is also a regular contributor to technology publications. Currently, Dmitri manages eQuality Consulting and is leading the development of digital resources for recording and analysing human rights related information and violations.
Dr. Anna Neistat is a senior researcher for Human Rights Watch's emergencies division and a specialist in humanitarian crises, works to investigate and expose human rights violations in crisis situations on a rapid-response basis. Previously, as director of Human Rights Watch's Moscow office, Neistat worked on the conflict in Chechnya and other human rights problems in the former Soviet Union, and acted as the organization's spokesperson in the region. Before joining Human Rights Watch, Neistat worked for "Echo of Moscow," Russia's leading radio station, the Open Society Institute, and as a constitutional law researcher at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. Neistat holds an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School, a J.D. and Ph.D. in law, and an M.S. in history and philology.
Cormac McGuire has been working in systems development and application design for four years. He completed a computer science degree with honours in 2005 at the Dublin Institute of Technology. Cormac has developed content management systems, databases and web sites for small to medium size organisations around the world. He is one of the founding members of eQuality and is responsible for technical development behind the RightsCase tool.
David Mason was key founder of the first consumer Internet Service Provider in Canada, Internex Online, in 1993. He later led the technical team on Canada's first national online consultation on foreign policy, working with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. In 2005, David was part of a research team that, within Canada's largest hospital network, put patient records online in a research environment, and established patient-provider and patient-patient communications. David has developed strong technical capabilities, a focus on usability and working with diverse teams. His current focus is working with Semantic Mediawiki, which expands on the flexibility of wikis to enable anyone to create and share their own data, queries and views, while providing a structured and easier to use front end. Free/Open Source software and content, participation and accessibility are main interests. David is eQuality's go-to technical conslutant and is currently working on the Deflect project.
Frederic Dubois is an independent producer, editor and reporter. He has experience in the field of independent media, publishing and civil society. For the last 3 years, he has worked with the National Film Board as a project manager and interactive producer on several critical documentary projects. Before that, he worked as information coordinator for the Association for Progressive Communications - an NGO network advocating internet rights as human rights; as well as other nonprofits. Frédéric has been a reporter and activist with independent media and he co-edited two books about media and journalism: EXTRACTION! Comix Reportage (2007) and Autonomous Media (2005). Frederic is managing communications for eQuality.
Tom Ryan is a senior level UNIX system engineer specialising in content distribution networks and supporting large web environments. He has previously worked on BBC, News International, Warner Music and other large web environments. Tom has collaborated with eQuality since its inception and is currently working on the Deflect project.
