{"id":68102,"date":"2023-09-27T15:39:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T15:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/person\/ben-adida\/"},"modified":"2023-09-27T23:10:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T23:10:50","slug":"ben-adida","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/person\/ben-adida\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Adida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Adida is the Executive Director of\u00a0VotingWorks. His passion is using technology to empower individuals. Ben has extensive experience in voting systems, identity &amp;amp; payments, health IT, security &amp;amp; privacy, and Web architecture. He has developed free software for more than 20 years and Web software for more than 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Ben was VP of Engineering at Clever, Director of Engineering at\u00a0Square, Director of Engineering at\u00a0Mozilla, Research Faculty at\u00a0Harvard Medical School\u00a0\/\u00a0Children&#8217;s Hospital Boston, and research fellow with the\u00a0Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard. Ben co-founded three bootstrapped startups: ArsDigita (1998), OpenForce (2000), and Webdash (2005). He received his PhD from MIT&#8217;s Cryptography and Information Security group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":73781,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/68102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}