 I'm Omar Khazraei. I am a fellow at Berkman Klein Center for Eternals Society and I'm also an assistant professor of information at Kansas State's School of Information in Ohio. Broadly speaking I'm interested in how human collectives use information technology to achieve their collective goals. I look at the two levels. At one level I look at very large collectives, how they use information technology for social transformations. For example, how activists use information technology to challenge authorities. Another level I'm looking at very tightly connected communities, what we call them communities of practice, how they use information technology to produce knowledge. At Berkman Klein Center I am looking to understand how we can theorize the dynamic of evolution of the tools and methods that activists use to challenge authorities. On a personal side I'm Iranian and I have seen a lot of transformations in recent years happening in Iranian society. We've seen that a very young population, educated population, use information technology to progress the state of society. We are living in an era that the pace of technology changes and transmits. It's so high that some of the people become anxious about what's the impact of technology on our society. It's very important to see whether it helps us to improve our society or not. I think that's how it's important for the average person to see in many contexts such as repressive environments, whether the use of information technology can be a force shifting the balance towards a more just and progressive society or it might give more tools for oppressive governments to repress and restrict human freedom.