GNI Announces Leader, Board
The Global Network Initiative said Tuesday that it has tapped Susan Morgan to be its first executive director. Morgan, who will begin her new job in May, most recently served as head of corporate responsibility strategy, policy and business planning at British Telecommunications.
"Technology has the potential to dramatically increase access to information and protect personal privacy," Morgan said in a statement. "However, increasing demands from governments to limit content, restrict freedom of expression and monitor users represent a worrying threat to human rights."
The GNI is made up of companies, civil society organizations, investors and academics that have developed a set of principles to assist information technology and communications firms when they work in countries that may infringe on human rights, freedom of expression and privacy. GNI members include firms such as the Calvert Group, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, as well as groups such as the Center for Democracy and Technology, Human Rights Watch and the World Press Freedom Committee.
Morgan will be responsible for serving as the group's chief lobbyist and spokesperson and also work on trying to boost the group's membership, "encouraging collective action [and] overseeing the learning and accountability framework." The group also announced the formation of its board of directors, which is made up of representatives from industry, nonprofit organizations and academia.
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