Ben Scott (born 14 May, 1977) is an American policy researcher and advocate. He is director of policy and advocacy at Luminate, a part of the global philanthropic organization, the Omidyar Group. He is also on the management board of the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV) in Berlin, an independent technology policy think tank. He has been a part of the leadership at the SNV since 2014, and before that was a fellow there. Previously, Scott was Senior Advisor at the

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in Washington, D.C., where he did work on the ad tech industry. During the 2016 presidential campaign, he was the coordinator of the Tech & Innovation Policy Advisory Group for Hillary Clinton. Previously, he was a Policy Advisor for Innovation at the

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where he worked at the intersection of technology and foreign policy.

Life

Scott grew up in

Canyon, Texas Canyon is a city in and the county seat of Randall County, Texas, United States. The population was 14,836 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is part of the Amarillo, Texas, Amarillo metropolitan area, metropolitan statistical area ...

. Scott is a 1995 graduate of the University of Illinois Laboratory High School. Scott is a graduate of

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

. In 2010 he received his Doctorate from the Institute of Communications Research at the

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Career

Scott has worked as a legislative telecommunications policy fellow for Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and as the Policy Director for

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, a national media reform organization. While at Free Press, Scott was described as a "driving force for '

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.'" In May, 2010 Scott left Free Press to become Policy Advisor for Innovation at the

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. Since 2018 he has served as director of policy and advocacy at Luminate, part of the global philanthropic organization, the Omidyar Group.

Bibliography

Books

* 2015 Ansgar Baums / Martin Schoessler / Ben Scott, editors
Kompendium Industrie 4.0
Berlin (in German) * 2013 Ansgar Baums and Ben Scott, editors.
Kompendium Digitale Standortpolitik
Berlin. (in German) * 2005

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, Russell Newman and Ben Scott, editors. ''The Future of Media.'' New York: Seven Stories Press.. * 2004

& Ben Scott, editors. ''Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism.'' New York: The New Press.

Articles

* 2018: Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott.
Digital Deceit II: A Policy Agenda to Fight Disinformation on the Internet.
New America Foundation publication. *2018: Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott.
Digital Deceit: The Technologies Behind Precision Propaganda on the Internet.
New America Foundation publication. *2018: Ben Scott / Stefan Heumann / Phillipe Lorenz.
Artificial Intelligence and Foreign Policy
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung publication. *2016: Ben Scott
Collaborative Policy Development: From Think Tank to Civic Enterprise
New America Foundation publication. *2011:

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and Ben Scott. 21st Century Statecraft. NATO Review. * 2006: Sascha Meinrath and Ben Scott. Community Internet: Why Should Arts and Culture Funders Care. Grantmakers in the Arts Reader. * 2003: Ben Scott and Sascha Meinrath. Media Reform Explodes onto American Political Scene. Public i. Vol. 3(10).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Ben 1977 births Living people Northwestern University alumni United States Department of State officials University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Media alumni People from Canyon, Texas