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Benjamin Mako Hill is an academic, activist, and consultant working on issues of technology, intellectual property, and society. He is currently a researcher and PhD Candidate in a joint program between the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Media Lab and a Research Fellow at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media. His research focuses on social scientific analyses of social structure in free software and free culture communities. He has been an leader, developer, and contributor to the Free and Open Source Software community for more than a decade as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects. He is the author of several best-selling technical books, and a member of the Free Software Foundation board of directors. He is an advisor to the Wikimedia Foundation and the One Laptop per Child project. Hill has a Masters degree from the MIT Media Lab.

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