Matti Pohjonen is a cooperation partner with For Digital Dignity, Project ONLINERPOL and Senior Researcher at African Voices Foundation, a research organisation spun out of the University of Cambridge. Prior to this, he worked as a Research Fellow for the VOX-Pol Network of Excellence and for the Programme for Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCLMP), at the University of Oxford, on a project mapping online debates, hate speech and conflict in Ethiopia. He finished his MA and PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), where he was also an AHRC-funded Post-Doctorate Research Fellow (2013), Senior Teaching Fellow (2007-2010) and Research Fellow in Digital Culture (2003-2006).