Danielle Riou
Biography
Ms. Riou was born in Welland, Ontario (Canada) and studied economics and political science at the University of Ottawa. She has been working at the Human Rights Project for the last two years, where her research interests have focused on technology and political theory. She is member of the Human Rights Project and has played an important part in developing and maintaining the Slobodan Milosevic Trial Public Archive on http://hague.bard.edu. This is an international effort aimed at providing a public record of the trial and to preserve it for future researchers, established by the Human Rights Project at Bard College. A physical archive of broadcast-quality digital video (dvcam) is being stored at Bard and will be made permanently available to researchers. Riou is a passionate advocate of public access to information, and believes that human rights is the ground on which many of the battles over intellectual property and individual freedoms will be fought.
riou@bart.edu