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With his team, Mario is on a mission to bring integrity back to the internet. This means working to make it more lucrative for both publishers and audiences to focus on quality instead of quantity, while exposing the systemic rot that continues to undermine the internet\u2019s potential for good. He is a robotics engineer turned digital strategist, and now founder. His work has won multiple innovation prizes on the subject of community-driven platforms and the future of work. Prior to Readefined, he led digital innovation projects and digital literacy campaigns for national and multinational organizations in Canada and France. 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