Daniel Kent ’07 selected to be a Google Policy Fellow

Daniel Kent ’07, a current senior at Haverford College (Haverford, Pa.), has just been named to the 2011 class of Google Policy Fellows. Google’s host organizations selected the 16 2011 fellows from over 900 impressive submissions – nearly double the number of applications from 2010. The 2011 class includes undergrads and graduate students from 15 schools studying computer science, economics, information policy, intellectual property, international affairs, law, library sciences and public policy.

The 2011 Fellows will spend 10 weeks this summer at Google’s host organizations in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Toronto and Ottawa working on Internet and technology policy issues including free expression, privacy, security and intellectual property.

Daniel was selected to be a fellow at the Internet Education Foundation in Washington, D.C., and is the only undergraduate in the program this year. As a middle school student, Daniel helped found Net Literacy in 2003. Net Literacy has developed an integrated series of digital literacy programs: Senior Connects, Safe Connects, Computer Connects, Community Connects, the Net Literacy Alliance, Financial Connects and the Digital Literacy "best practices” website. Net Literacy has increased computer access to over 150,000 individuals, repurposed over 12,000 computers in the last three years alone, and received awards presented by two American Presidents.

Daniel attributes Brebeuf Jesuit as being a service learning catalyst that enabled him to develop into the person he is today, and helped him make actionable his passion of being a servant leader through Net Literacy, says his dad, Don Kent. Daniel took a semester off to work as a White House intern, will graduate from Haverford College in December 2011 and intends to pursue technology policy and law post-graduation.

For more information on Net Literacy, visit http://www.netliteracy.org/.