Why Digital?
The rationale behind the name is that of a French feminist philosopher, Hélène Cixous, who wrote an essay about the laugh of the Medusa and encouraged women to write more.
Farzaneh Badii (or Badiei) has worked on Internet and platform governance for over a decade as both an academic and as a research-advocate. She has undertaken research at Yale Law School, Georgia Institute of Technology and the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin. Her focus is on governance issues related to Internet infrastructure and social media platforms.