[liberationtech] Final Draft of EU's Accession Agreement to ECHR Approved
Hi Libtechies, Final Draft of EU's Accession Agreement to ECHR Approved. The Union shall accede to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Article 6, paragraph 2, TEU Report: attached. More details and analysis here: http://europeanlawblog.eu/?p=1680 Cheers /Rob Frei -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
[liberationtech] Connaught Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights
Dear LibTech, The University of Toronto is convening a week-long workshop taking place July 22-26, 2013 focused on monitoring Internet openness and rights from a multidisciplinary perspective. We would like to invite leading researchers, students, and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines to discuss research on the study of information controls, present latest work, facilitate research review and mentorship, discuss research ethics, and engage in intensive research methods training. We encourage submissions on a wide range of relevant topics. Submission that explore multidisciplinary approaches are especially encouraged. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Measuring Internet censorship, detecting surveillance, new tools and research methods, research ethics, legal and regulatory frameworks, role of private sector actors in censorship and surveillance, analysis of the social, economic and political impacts of censorship and surveillance. Interested participants should send a one page abstract summarizing what they plan to present at the workshop as well as any relevant experience or topics of specific interest. The abstract should also indicate the preferred presentation format for the work (poster, short talk, or tutorial) and indicate if the person will require travel support to attend the institute. A limited pool of travel support is available and will be allocated based on strength of the abstract and demonstrated need. Please submit abstracts to info at citizenlab.org with the subject Summer Institute 2013 by June 1, 2013. For full details see the workshop website here: http://citizenlab.org/summerinstitute/index.html All best, -- Masashi Nishihata Research Manager, Citizen Lab Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto Phone: (416) 946-8903 pgp key: https://citizenlab.org/masashi-key.txt -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
[liberationtech] Revolution 2.0 Index
From: Richard Heeks richard.he...@manchester.ac.uk Inspired by reading Castells’ book, Networks of Outrage and Hope, I am seeking to construct a “Revolution 2.0 Index”. Using measures of net freedom, democratic rights, and ICT access this tries to identify countries where ICT-enabled mass protest is more or less likely to occur. Feedback and modifications to the index are requested: http://ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/the-revolution-2-0-index-where-will-the-next-arab-spring-occur/ Richard Heeks Director, Centre for Development Informatics University of Manchester, UK http://www.manchester.ac.uk/cdi -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
[liberationtech] Translators needed for an open source university election information app
Hi LibTech, The EveryVote Facebook app is designed to improve campus engagement and voter turnout in university student government elections. The app can help students learn about and publicly interact with all of their candidates on one easy-to-browse webpage. EV English screenshots http://imgur.com/a/5KTXe#0 EV Hungarian screenshots http://imgur.com/a/AHOPG#0 EV Greek screenshots (soon) The code is open source (AGPL) and could be easily modified and deployed for student government elections anywhere in the world (if that country uses Facebook). There is currently a functioning prototype of the apphttps://apps.facebook.com/everyvote, but there are still bugs, so our plan is to complete the app this Spring and Summer in time for the US Fall 2013 university elections. Would any LibTech members like to help translate the app into other languages than English? There are only 98 English words (mostly duplicates) that need translating, and you can get started right away by visiting https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/university-election-info-app/. Also, if you clicked the screenshots you know we are inserting historical figure profiles for demonstration purposes. It'd be really cool to make historical figure (highly influential non-living persons from anywhere in the world) profiles in languages other than English. If that sounds fun to you, please fill out the Historical Figure Templatehttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1OjnmYavu425zqtVX46dw3oZNVrP4hTE5iFUzWpKGZyI/puband email it to contac...@everyvote.org. If you have any questions or feedback, we would really appreciate hearing from you. Thanks! Mitch Downey http://www.twitter.com/mdowney84 @everyvoteu http://www.twitter.com/everyvoteu P.S. - To learn more about EveryVote.org's long-term goals please watch this cartoon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN85p5oSbb4. -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] TomatoVPN
No I'd argue that it'd be better to have one VPN, that you know is working, rather then 6 different ones. The point Griffin is making is that you will stick out if someone does any sort of traffic analysis, but you'll also stick out if your running 6 separate VPNs. Most likely as your a foreigner, the local ISP/Authorities will ignore or otherwise not care. But that depends on your threat model. -Andrew On Apr 13, 2013, at 7:14 AM, Katy P katyca...@gmail.com wrote: So in this case, would it be better to have a VPN connection for each device? (Hoping that the VPNs didn't conflict). On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Griffin Boyce griffinbo...@gmail.comwrote: Katy P katyca...@gmail.com wrote: This is in a location where there is a high level of surveillance. I know that VPNs aren't perfect, but I have a need for speed as well. (Child needs his Netflix.) I want a router-based solution rather than having to set up VPN on all my devices in the home. I will have a VPN when I'm out and about. I've read about TomatoVPN. I routinely put alternative firmware on my routers, but have never set up a VPN like this before. Thanks! Been there. The real problem here is that you would probably attract a fair amount of attention from running a ton of traffic through the same VPN (thinking about Netflix or gaming here). At a minimum, you'd want to have a separate VPN for your own personal use, which might negate TomatoVPN. And I'm just assuming that the worst-case scenario in your location is a blocked VPN. Obviously, in many locations, repercussions are far worse than that. Proceed at your own risk. -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
