[liberationtech] 4/27 & 5/6 SAID Events with Distinguished Visitor John Githongo & Liberationtech Professor Larry Diamond

2015-04-27 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Jim Murray Please join the Stanford Association for International Development (SAID) for our Spring Quarter Speaker Series with 2015 Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor John Githongo in partnership with the Haas Center for Public Service and the Center for African Studies. John Git

[liberationtech] Map4Nepal@Stanford Information & Introductory Workshop Announcement. Please Forward!

2015-04-27 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Stacey Maples Apologies for odd language of the email. I am creating/maintaining and information page here: http://stanfordgeospatialcenter.github.io/Map4Nepal_Resources/ and have simply cut & pasted from that to save time. I will be adding more information throughout the day/week.Please fee

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for: ICT/telecom expertise in country in Nepal

2015-04-27 Thread Bill Woodcock
> On Apr 27, 2015, at 5:53 AM, Yosem Companys wrote: > From: Nick Ashton-Hart via bestb...@lists.bestbits.net > If you, or someone you know, has hands-on ICTs and especially telecom > infrastructure experience and is presently in Nepal can you let me know > offlist? > I'm trying to help emerge

Re: [liberationtech] Ghostery, NoScript.. add-ons frequently phone home

2015-04-27 Thread Al Billings
You should go ask Mozilla then. File a bug or go to one of the dev newsgroups and ask. Maybe you’ll get an official response. The people that have that entire list is probably rather small. I’m not speaking for Mozilla here and I certainly don’t know the full list of pings and the like. > On

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for: ICT/telecom expertise in country in Nepal

2015-04-27 Thread Nick Ashton-Hart
+ Indiver Dear Bill, I've certainly experienced that dynamic before. I'm very glad to hear that families are all OK. I only wish it were true for everyone, and it is great that PCH has released staff to help out - very much in the Nepali spirit I might add! In this instance, Im not in Nepal r

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for: ICT/telecom expertise in country in Nepal

2015-04-27 Thread Gary Garriott (ggarri...@internews.org)
I had occasion to trek to Mahabir's wireless-connected village Nangi back in 2008 with a team from Winrock International. He was also being considered as an Ashoka Fellow and it appears that he achieved that status. Perhaps either or both organizations could provide current contact info. https

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for: ICT/telecom expertise in country in Nepal

2015-04-27 Thread Nick Ashton-Hart
Yes please - there's a spreadsheet that a bunch of people are on and populating with contacts, from techs who can help to ministry, UN agency and the like contact people. If anyone would like to be added to add more names, just give me a gdocs address. I'm getting a lot of incoming emails now,

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for: ICT/telecom expertise in country in Nepal

2015-04-27 Thread Lina Srivastava
Also, Flowminder.org was in Nepal last week to set up a mobile / disaster response system there which will be fully operational this summer, and have contracts in place and the system underway, but in the meantime are working to see if they can do ad-hoc work now. Let me know if you want a contact

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for: ICT/telecom expertise in country in Nepal

2015-04-27 Thread Peter Micek
The Swedish-Finnish telco TeliaSonera operates in Nepal and is engaged in relief efforts, offering 50 free SMS and some free calling. I'll paste their email below, and find their latest alert here: http://www.teliasonera.com/en/newsroom/news/2015/update-on-the-earthquake-i-nepal Peter Update on Te

Re: [liberationtech] Ghostery, NoScript.. add-ons frequently phone home

2015-04-27 Thread Rich Kulawiec
I think there's a more fundamental problem here. We're all talking about add-ons that perform various security/privacy functions. Why are these add-ons? Why are they not designed-in and built-in to the browser? Those are only quasi-rhetorical questions, because I'm pretty sure we all know at l

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Video Recording for Android

2015-04-27 Thread John Sullivan
Nathan of Guardian writes: > On Sun, Apr 5, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: >> Hello! Thank you a lot for publishing your work under GPL. >> Do you know of a similar application for still pictures, also GPL? > > As poly stated, the Strongbox project is based on our (the Guardian

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for: ICT/telecom expertise in country in Nepal

2015-04-27 Thread Lina Srivastava
You might already know about Kathmandu Living Labs, but if not, they might be able to help: http://kathmandulivinglabs.org/ On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Yosem Companys wrote: > From: Nick Ashton-Hart via > bestb...@lists.bestbits.net > > If you, or someone you know, has hands-on ICTs and es

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for: ICT/telecom expertise in country in Nepal

2015-04-27 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
The IETF last year gave an award to a Nepalese gentleman, Mahabir Pun, for connecting villages on different mountain ridges together: https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/gaia/current/msg00248.html I'm not sure how to or if it's possible to get in touch with Mr. Pun or other members of his group

[liberationtech] Looking for: ICT/telecom expertise in country in Nepal

2015-04-27 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Nick Ashton-Hart via bestb...@lists.bestbits.net If you, or someone you know, has hands-on ICTs and especially telecom infrastructure experience and is presently in Nepal can you let me know offlist? I'm trying to help emergency teams in country gain access to in-country expertise. Regard

Re: [liberationtech] Ghostery, NoScript.. add-ons frequently phone home

2015-04-27 Thread Aymeric Vitte
Let me answer anyway. I know what is being sent outside, I have given some examples in my first reply. I don't get what's the big deal for Mozilla to clarify for everybody what FF is sending outside without the users being aware of it, for what purpose and what is inside the https message, s