Dirk Slater is the FabRider in FabRiders (www.fabriders.net). He has spent the last quarter of a century at the intersection of tech and social justice working to build capacity of activists and advocates in over thirty countries on a variety of social change issues. Current projects focus on data literacy, social learning, participatory events and network-centric resources, working with a wide range of collaborators that include Aspiration, Global Voices, Mozilla, Civicus, IFRC & 360 Giving. He is co-chair of the Data Literacy Consortium.