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Sameer Padania has ten years’ experience in working with media, civil society and new technology. Before joining WITNESS in New York, Sameer was the lead author on Reflecting the Real World 2, a report documenting the impact of new media on British public television’s global coverage, and he also wrote and edited WITNESS’ award-winning human rights vlog at Global Voices Online. Sameer spent six years at the international media development organization Panos, designing and managing initiatives to support and strengthen local radio and online journalism worldwide – ranging from supporting local networks of radio stations in Africa and South Asia, and bringing African journalists to report on and blog the 2005 G8 Summit, to supporting networking among European ethnic media. He has also worked in film distribution, for Twentieth Century Fox, in film and television production, including a stint interning for Atom Egoyan, and as a journalist for UK film magazine Kamera. Sameer is a graduate in English and Modern Languages from Oxford University, and comes from London.