[liberationtech] Upcoming Online Course in Tech for Emergency Management

2012-08-23 Thread TJ Thomander 
Hi LiberationTech Folks,

I wanted to pass along some info about TechChange's upcoming course Tech
Tools and Skills for Emergency
Management
(course
description included below). The course will run from September 3rd - 28th.
We've already got an amazing line-up of guest experts and participants and
we have a few more spots left. Feel free to circulate to your colleagues.

Cheers and hope you have a great weekend.
TJ


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*TC103: Tech Tools and Skills for Emergency
Management
*
September 3rd - September 28th

*Course Description*

This four-week online professional development certificate course will
explore how new communication and mapping technologies are being used to
respond to disasters, create early warning mechanisms, improve coordination
efforts and much more. From the earthquake recovery efforts in Haiti and
Japan to the monitoring of election violence in countries like Kenya to the
recent floods in the Philippines, this course will consider a variety of
real world examples from organizations working in the field and analyze
some of the key challenges related to access, implementation, scale, and
verification that working with new technology presents. The course is
designed to assist professionals in developing concrete strategies and
technological skills to work amid this rapidly evolving landscape.

*Course Topics and Featured Tech*

Mapping the Crisis: New Techniques for Disaster Response and Preparedness
Human Rights Violations and Elections Monitoring
The Power of the Crowd: Citizen Journalism in the era of Crowdsourcing
Information Overload: Verification, Analysis, and Decision Making in
Real-Time
Featured Technologies: Ushahidi, FrontlineSMS, Open Street Map, Sahana,
Basic GIS and more!

*Course Objectives*

Participants will be able to…

   - critically analyze both the opportunities and the pitfalls that emerge
   when working with technology to respond to crises
   - connect relevant development, humanitarian and peacebuilding theories
   to the technological strategies and tools discussed in the course
   - manage specific software platforms and utilize various technological
   tools for responding to and managing crisis
   - design dynamic and effective strategies for using technology platforms
   and tools to respond to social challenges

*Guest Experts*

   - John Etherton, Co-Founder, iLab Liberia
   - Neil Laslett, Senior Officer, Technical Innovation, American Red Cross

*Cost*

   - $495 if application and payment is submitted before August 28
   - $595 if application and payment is submitted before September 3

Apply Now 


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[liberationtech] Iran's Green Movement - URGENT ALERT - Please RT

2012-08-23 Thread SiNA Rabbani 
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Mir Hossein Mousavi, former presidential candidate during the 2009
elections and leader of the Green Movement under illegal house arrest
for approximately 18 months, was transferred to a cardiac hospital in
down town Tehran under extreme security measures accompanied by his
wife Zahra Rahnavard.

526 days after his illegal house arrest, Mir Hossein Mousavi who was
reportedly suffering from extreme chest pain was reportedly
transferred this morning, Thursday August 23rd, 2012, under extreme
security measures to the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) at a cardiac
hospital in central Tehran. It has been reported that security agents
arrived at the hospital the night before Mousavi?s transfer,
installing security cameras throughout the hospital.

According to the same reports the security apparatus assigned to Mir
Hossein Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard at the hospital includes
tens of IRGC agents, security agents and plain clothes officers. The
hospital personnel working in the unit where Mousavi has been
admitted, have not been allowed to leave the building and Mousavi is
said to be banned from all visitation.

It has been reported that as a result of a blocked coronary artery,
Mousavi under went a three hour angiogram. Upon completion of the
operation, Mousavi was transferred back to the CCU unit where he is
likely to remain for a longer period of time.

In the event that Mousavi?s hospitalization is prolonged, there is
speculation that he will be kept in isolation in a separate unit in
the hospital.

Source: Kaleme: http://kaleme.org/1391/06/02/klm-110814/

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Re: [liberationtech] NYT Op-Doc on NSA Whistleblower William Binney

2012-08-23 Thread James S. Tyre 
For those who may be interested, the Declarations of Bill Binney, Tom Drake and 
Kirk Wiebe (no relation to Rick Wiebe, one of our team lawyers) in Jewel v. 
NSA, our case against the government.

 

https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/binneydeclaration.pdf 

https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/drakedeclaration.pdf 

https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/wiebedeclaration.pdf

 

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https://www.eff.org

 

From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu 
[mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Gregory Foster
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 6:19 AM
To: effaustin-disc...@lists.effaustin.org; liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu
Subject: [liberationtech] NYT Op-Doc on NSA Whistleblower William Binney

 

10-minutes, well done.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-security-agencys-domestic-spying-program.html

On a related note, #CryptoParty 
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Re: [liberationtech] RNC activist tracking or evasion of it? who is RNCCTV.COM?

2012-08-23 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb 
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- From what I read on Jon Gales' twitter account, and put 1 and 1 together, it 
seems like he created it

https://twitter.com/jonknee/status/236885560696897536

and the video on this link has him talking as the author:

http://www.wmnf.org/news_stories/new-app-shows-you-where-tampas-surveillance-cameras-are-during-republican-convention

hth,

Bernard

On 23 Aug 2012, at 16:49, Benjamin J Doherty wrote:

> Friends:
> 
> This came to my inbox this morning.
> 
> http://rncctv.com
> 
>> Tampa is watching you at the 2012 RNC
>> Tampa has installed dozens of high-def CCTV cameras in advance of the 2012 
>> RNC. The cameras are fairly easy to spot, but to save you the time we have 
>> canvassed the downtown area and mapped out the cameras. If you're using a 
>> mobile device we can show you the closest cameras to where you are and even 
>> where to look.
>> 
> 
> It uses the Geolocation API to locate the user and place them on a map 
> relative to the known location of tracking cameras.
> 
> However, it's not clear who is behind the site. Press reports name Jon Gales, 
> who may be on the list but isn't identified on the site itself.
> 
> http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/tampa-man-releases-map-of-police-cameras-set-up-for-rnc/1246412
> 
> I haven't looked to see if the location of the user is sent to the site. I 
> don't know if anyone has audited this tool.
> 
> (If he's on the list, hi Jon!)
> 
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[liberationtech] TeliaSonera and Azerbaijan, Belarus and Uzbekistan

2012-08-23 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb 
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Some wonderful quotes from Mr. Nyberg:

"the company itself could not solve the underlying problem that undemocratic 
governments could abuse their  legal right to access and shut down telecoms 
networks"

"We need help from national and international organisations whether that be the 
UN, EU, (or) NGOs if we are going to make any significant impact on human 
rights"

"If we experience a situation where under a certain government there are 
serious breaches of human rights on a regular basis ... we must be ready to 
have a debate in the company whether we should be in that country or not"

Telecoms firm TeliaSonera to focus more on human rights
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/08/23/uk-telia-responsibility-idUKBRE87M0LC20120823

(Reuters) - TeliaSonera (TLSN.ST), burnt by charges it cooperated with 
authoritarian governments, said on Thursday it would focus more on human rights 
issues where it operates and is eying Myanmar as a possible target for 
expansion.

The Nordic and emerging markets telecoms group, in which Sweden has a 37 
percent stake, came under scathing criticism earlier this year for allowing 
authorities in Azerbaijan, Belarus and Uzbekistan to access its network to keep 
tabs on anti-government activists.

CEO Lars Nyberg said Telia, which has businesses across central Asia as well as 
the Nordic and Baltic regions, would take measures to bolster the protection of 
freedom of expression and privacy.

Requests from governments to close sites or networks would now be dealt with at 
board level not nationally, he said.

Telia will also cooperate with 10 other companies - including Alcatel-Lucent 
(ALUA.PA), France Telecom (FTE.PA), Nokia Siemens Networks NOKI.UL Vodafone 
(VOD.L), AT&T (T.N) and Telefonica (TEF.MC) - to draw up rules on how telecoms 
firms implement the United Nation's guidelines for preserving privacy and 
freedom of expression.

Although Telia is not considering withdrawing from any of the countries in 
which it operates and has management control, it would have to consider that 
possibility if the situation merited it, Nyberg said.

"If we experience a situation where under a certain government there are 
serious breaches of human rights on a regular basis ... we must be ready to 
have a debate in the company whether we should be in that country or not," 
Nyberg said.

Telia has been in hot water again in recent days after its daughter company in 
Tajikistan blocked news sites at the request of the government.

Nyberg said the company itself could not solve the underlying problem that 
undemocratic governments could abuse their legal right to access and shut down 
telecoms networks.

"We need help from national and international organisations whether that be the 
UN, EU, (or) NGOs if we are going to make any significant impact on human 
rights," he said.

Telia said criticism of its actions in central Asia has not undermined the 
company in countries without full democracy and where telecoms markets are set 
to develop fast.

Nyberg said that Telia was looking at the possibility of entering the market in 
Myanmar where, after decades of military rule, the government has introduced 
sweeping reforms, including allowing elections, easing rules on protests and 
censorship and freeing dissidents.

Nyberg said the developments were such that Telia could now consider operating 
in the country, where the telecoms network for the country's 60 million people 
is barely developed.

"Two years ago I would never have thought that we could even think about going 
into Myanmar," he said. "But what has happened in Myanmar over the last 18 
months allows us to consider if we could do something in Myanmar."

(Reporting by Simon Johnson and Olof Swahnberg; Editing by David Cowell)

Some history on the story:

TeliaSonera 'profits by helping dictators spy'
http://www.thelocal.se/40334/20120418/

"The Black Boxes" - How Teliasonera Sells to Dictatorships (Swedish TV Uppdrag 
Granskning Mission investigation) (VIDEO)
http://archive.org/details/theBlackBoxes-HowTeliasoneraSellsToDictatorshipsuppdragGranskning

Teliasonera i hemligt samarbete med diktaturer (Swedish only)
http://www.svt.se/ug/teliasonera-i-hemligt-samarbete-med-diktaturer



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[liberationtech] RNC activist tracking or evasion of it? who is RNCCTV.COM?

2012-08-23 Thread Benjamin J Doherty 
Friends:

This came to my inbox this morning.

http://rncctv.com

> Tampa is watching you at the 2012 RNC
> Tampa has installed dozens of high-def CCTV cameras in advance of the 2012 
> RNC. The cameras are fairly easy to spot, but to save you the time we have 
> canvassed the downtown area and mapped out the cameras. If you're using a 
> mobile device we can show you the closest cameras to where you are and even 
> where to look.
> 

It uses the Geolocation API to locate the user and place them on a map relative 
to the known location of tracking cameras.

However, it's not clear who is behind the site. Press reports name Jon Gales, 
who may be on the list but isn't identified on the site itself.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/tampa-man-releases-map-of-police-cameras-set-up-for-rnc/1246412

I haven't looked to see if the location of the user is sent to the site. I 
don't know if anyone has audited this tool.

(If he's on the list, hi Jon!)

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[liberationtech] NYT Op-Doc on NSA Whistleblower William Binney

2012-08-23 Thread Gregory Foster 

10-minutes, well done.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-security-agencys-domestic-spying-program.html

On a related note, #CryptoParty 
.

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