Re: [liberationtech] Ebola: A Big Data Disaster

[Lina Srivastava]

Hi all --

Is there a protocol to adding someone from off the list to a discussion
thread here? This study is fascinating and I mentioned it to a friend who
co-founded Flowminder, and I think he'd love to discuss.

Lina

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Sean McDonald  wrote:

> I'm excited to present some new research: "Ebola: A Big Data Disaster
> ," published by
> the Center for Internet & Society (with support from the Media Democracy
> Fund). It's a look at the way that technology was used during the Ebola
> response - with a focus on Call Detail Records, the experimental nature of
> data modeling in humanitarian response, and how that likely violates West
> Africa's well-developed (but under-implemented) data laws.
>
> My hope is that it will kick off a larger discussion about the risks
> (legal and operational) of digitizing humanitarian response - especially
> when it involves the use of large scale, sensitive data like CDRs (all
> anonymization and re-identification caveats apply). As practice stands,
> international organizations are likely putting themselves and the people
> they help at considerable risk, in violation of human rights law, data
> protection law, local regulation, and potentially commercial property law
> (among other theories of litigation).
>
> This case study focuses on Liberia, which didn't turn over CDR access -
> but many of the same operational considerations and laws apply in Sierra
> Leone and Guinea, where several mobile network operators did.
>
> I'd love any thoughts, connections to people working on these issues, or
> critical feedback.
>
> Best,
> Sean
>
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[liberationtech] alkasir 2.0: One more anti-censorship tool launched

[Walid AL-SAQAF]

Dear colleagues,

After over a year of hard work, we've finally launched our BETA release of 
Alkasir 2.0 , a website censorship mapping and 
circumvention tool. We are still working on the mobile app and hope to have it 
launched this year.

The software went through a major transformation from a Windows-based closed 
program to a security-audited cross-platform open-source solution. It is still 
a BETA release and we do expect to get bug reports and feedback from users as 
well as an interest by developers to contribute to it via the Github repository 
at https://github.com/alkasir/  .

Here's a blog post on the launch: 
https://23c.se/our-blog/alkasir-20-free-speech-advancing-knowledge/ 


As a software developer and a researcher, I find that understanding phenomena 
such as Internet censorship as equally important as helping citizens overcome 
such censorship. This is why I am always interested in publishing research on 
this topic, the latest being a journal article in the most recent edition of 
the Media and Communication Open Access Journal. The article helps shed light 
on the use of Alkasir to bypass censorship in Syria between 2010 and 2012: 
http://www.cogitatiopress.com/ojs/index.php/mediaandcommunication/issue/view/37

There are many people to thank for making this happen, especially the developer 
Thomas Frössman of 23Critters  and friends at Internews. I take 
this opportunity to express my gratitude to my good friend Eric Johnson who 
believed in the idea of split-tunneling from the very beginning and spared no 
effort to help me take it to the next level. Thank you Eric for your friendship 
and support over the years...

Sincerely,

Walid Al-Saqaf

Founder
Alkasir for Website Mapping and Circumvention
https://alkasir.com 

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[liberationtech] Ebola: A Big Data Disaster

[Sean McDonald]

I'm excited to present some new research: "Ebola: A Big Data Disaster
," published by the
Center for Internet & Society (with support from the Media Democracy Fund).
It's a look at the way that technology was used during the Ebola response -
with a focus on Call Detail Records, the experimental nature of data
modeling in humanitarian response, and how that likely violates West
Africa's well-developed (but under-implemented) data laws.

My hope is that it will kick off a larger discussion about the risks (legal
and operational) of digitizing humanitarian response - especially when it
involves the use of large scale, sensitive data like CDRs (all
anonymization and re-identification caveats apply). As practice stands,
international organizations are likely putting themselves and the people
they help at considerable risk, in violation of human rights law, data
protection law, local regulation, and potentially commercial property law
(among other theories of litigation).

This case study focuses on Liberia, which didn't turn over CDR access - but
many of the same operational considerations and laws apply in Sierra Leone
and Guinea, where several mobile network operators did.

I'd love any thoughts, connections to people working on these issues, or
critical feedback.

Best,
Sean
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[liberationtech] Internet Politician Database (IPDb)

[Yosem Companys]

From: Matias Nso 

My name is Matías and I am founder of Kuorum. We are carrying out a
transparency project called IPDb  (Internet
Politician Database), the world's largest politician database. And we are
seeking partnerships with universities, and transparency and open data
organizations to scale the project faster. If this opportunity might be of
interest for you, don't hesitate to contact us as soon as possible and we
will give you more information.

We thank you for your time!

Yours faithfully,

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