[liberationtech] App for citizen calls

2017-02-21 Thread Terry Winograd
Act Now is an app that brings every feature of a call center to the palm of your hand. It facilitates active citizenship by: *helping you to quickly find contact information for your senators and representatives *giving you call scripts, email scripts, and letter scripts at the ready *informing

[liberationtech] Your Papers and Social Media Passwords, Please

2017-02-21 Thread Cecilia Tanaka
Your Papers and Social Media Passwords, Please https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/02/21/your-papers-and-social-media-passwords-please == Uuugh!!! (>_<)* ​Sorry for being very late with answers, but since yesterday I am having a mix of bad hair day + bad news day + bad wi-fi day + bad

[liberationtech] Fwd: [Internet Policy] FYI - Joint statement by 50 orgs on proposal to require social media passwords at US border

2017-02-21 Thread Cecilia Tanaka
FYI. c. -- Forwarded message -- From: Dan York Date: Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 11:50 AM Subject: [Internet Policy] FYI - Joint statement by 50 orgs on proposal to require social media passwords at US border FYI, today the Internet Society joined with 50 other

[liberationtech] Stanford MS 297: Hacking 4 Defense - First Brown Bag Lunch TODAY (& Thursday)!

2017-02-21 Thread Yosem Companys
MS 297: Hacking for Defense (H4D) hacking4defense.stanford.edu The class will be on Tuesdays from 4:30 - 7:20 Brown Bag Lunches February 21st: 12:00 - 1:00pm, Thornton 110 February 23rd: 12:10 - 1:10pm, GSB Room M109 Join the Hacking for Defense teaching team THIS WEEK to learn more about

[liberationtech] MIT Center for Civic Media, Engagement Lab at Emerson College, and TNB Labs!

2017-02-21 Thread Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Dear Liberation Tech Colleagues, Please see below for some exciting news! And if you haven't played with https://databasic.io/en/ yet, I encourage you to give it a try now. Best regards from Deborah Deborah Elizabeth Finn Chief Strategic Officer TNB Labs, LLC P.O. Box 2073 Framingham, MA 01703

[liberationtech] Interdisciplinary Workshop on DIY and Community Networking

2017-02-21 Thread Doug Schuler
--- Our apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP --- CALL FOR PAPERS IFIP Networking 2017 Interdisciplinary Workshop on DIY and Community

[liberationtech] @Liberationtech Daily Digest

2017-02-21 Thread Yosem Companys
@Liberationtech tweeted #Peru Files Extradition Request in U.S. for Ex-President Alejandro Toledo https://t.co/9HZ0rViw85 #corruption — Liberationtech (@Liberationtech) February 21, 2017 February 20, 2017 at 04:01PM via Twitter http://twitter.com/Liberationtech/status/833828723002572800

[liberationtech] Announcing unMessage: a Next-Gen Tor Messenger

2017-02-21 Thread bancfc
unMessage is an anonymous messenger that uses Tor to hide metadata of participants. Its still in early development, however a major new feature such as Tor-to-Tor audio chat (the first such implementation we are aware of) has been included. Major additions like file-sharing support, video

[liberationtech] Teach computer science to youth in Palestine

2017-02-21 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Afeef Ahmed We're looking for *15 undergrads or recent alums* who want to spend a couple of weeks teaching coding or design thinking classes to Palestinian high school students as part of the third *Code for Palestine* camp this upcoming summer. Volunteers will