Ivan R. Mendez is a Journalist and works in digital media across Latin America. In 2000, he created a website called “Cyberanalitica" which was used to broadly engage the populace in discussing cyber-culture. He currently runs another website called "Opinion y Noticias" where he writes about technology, society and politics. He has co-authored the book "10 Years of Digital Journalism in Venezuela”. He is passionate about the Internet and human rights and is looking forward to continuing his advocacy in this area. Ivan is currently participating in the Next Generation Leaders moderated e-Learning course "Shaping the Internet - History and Futures".