Caryn Mladen

Field Consultant

Caryn Mladen is a consultant with The Martus Team, presently training NGOs in Africa to better organize, protect, and backup their information. The project focuses on Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt and Kenya, but Caryn has also trained groups and individuals from Somalia, Ethiopia and Tunisia. Prior to working with Benetech, Caryn was a co-founder and director of the non-profit initiative Privaterra. In that capacity, she trained NGOs in central and South America in Martus, PGP and other security technology. Caryn also worked with Benetech staff to draft the Martus server guidelines.

Caryn consults with companies and institutions worldwide on matters of security and business organization. She has been an intellectual property lawyer, university instructor, co-chief editor of America Online's print publication Multimedia Online and co-author of the best-selling Making Money with Multimedia, multiple editions of The Canadian Computer Handbook, and two books in the popular …for Dummies series. Caryn has written hundreds of articles and columns dealing with technology, business, education and privacy.

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