Re: [liberationtech] Liberationtech list moving from Stanford to Liberationtech.org on Mon, Mar 4

2019-02-27 Thread Terry Winograd
Yes, keep me on the list. --t On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 9:05 AM Yosem Companys wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Please join me in thanking Hapee and the rest of his team at Greenhost for > helping us migrate the Liberationtech mailing list from Stanford to an > outside domain. Thank you, Greenhost! > >

Re: [liberationtech] [cpsr-activists] CPSR Curriculum?

2019-02-01 Thread Terry Winograd
This is an ongoing debate. The observation about how students treat a single required ethics course is valid, and therefore it requires a lot of work to make it more engaging (as Stanford is trying to do now). The problem with trying to integrate it into courses in general is that either it is ta

Re: [liberationtech] Please help my 87-year-old grandmother...

2018-01-06 Thread Terry Winograd
Yosem, how is she doing? --t On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I hope you're having a wonderful holiday season with your friends and > family, and I wish you a Happy New Year. > > My 87-year-old grandmother collapsed on Christmas Day and was > hospitalize

[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

Re: [liberationtech] If Muslims are blocked by the U.S., should we respond?

2017-01-28 Thread Terry Winograd
There is an academic petition at https://sites.google.com/view/notoimmigrationeo/home --t On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Michael M. J. Fischer wrote: > both symbolic and substantive moves are needed > > since much of what the new administration is doing is symbolic signaling, we > need to be vi

[liberationtech] Echo hiring engineers for a 6-month contract in Nairobi

2015-10-12 Thread Terry Winograd
Experienced Engineer for Cloud SaaS Platform (Python) Consulting Opportunity based in Nairobi, Kenya About Echo Mobile Echo Mobile licenses access to the Echo Platform ­­ a best in class real­time monitoring, and mobile communications cloud service designed especially for organizations working

[liberationtech] ICTD 2016 Ann Arbor, MI, USA | 3-6 June 2016

2015-09-17 Thread Terry Winograd
ICTD 2016 Ann Arbor, MI, USA | 3-6 June 2016 Call for Papers and Notes Deadline for Submission of Full paper: November 20 2015 The Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2016), to be hosted at the University of Michigan from June 3-6, 201

Re: [liberationtech] Information about US tech-related foreign aid?

2014-05-19 Thread Terry Winograd
Zak, the person who is best qualified to talk to you about this here is Larry Diamond. I know there have been USAID programs and others, but don't know the details. --t On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Zak Whittington wrote: > I am interested in studying what current initiatives the US federal >

Re: [liberationtech] old libtech archives? bitcoin/bit-gold/b-money

2013-12-16 Thread Terry Winograd
Adam, I'm pleased to see that the liberationtech list has achieved a notoriety even beyond it's existence. We created the list in 2008. We are delighted that the community has adopted it as the go-to place for relevant discussion, but I'm afraid that anything of vintage late 90s must have been o

Re: [liberationtech] Terry Winograd and Evgeny Morozov

2013-07-05 Thread Terry Winograd
I enjoyed seeing the discussion that Evgeny provoked here (and indeed "provoke" is his MO). I found Alex Madrigal's review in the Atlantic very thoughtful (though long): http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/toward-a-complex-realistic-and-moral-tech-criticism/273996/ --t On Wed,

Re: [liberationtech] Dissertation defense talk on One Laptop Per Child Monday, May 6, 12pm

2013-04-11 Thread Terry Winograd
Morgan, I'd love to hear more but unfortunately I'll be in Israel/Palestine that day. I just ran across your name when I saw an announcement of a talk by someone from OLPC and looked up Wikipedia to see it's current state. The Wikipedia article says "Mark Warschauer, a Professor of University of

Re: [liberationtech] liberation tech and Congress

2013-03-20 Thread Terry Winograd
Ed Markey, who is running for Kerry's senate seat. http://markey.house.gov/issues/telecommunications-and-internet-0 http://markey.house.gov/issues/privacy --t On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Wayne Moore wrote: > I believe Zoe Loffgrin (sp) has been pretty good on these sorts of issues > late

[liberationtech] Stanford staff position on cybersecuritty

2013-01-17 Thread Terry Winograd
I write to ask for your help in identifying candidates for a new research staff member position at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. The new hire will help lead CISAC’s growing program in cybersecurity and the future of the Internet, conducting re

Re: [liberationtech] Are you or one of your PhD students on the job market this year?

2012-11-15 Thread Terry Winograd
what department? MS&E? --t On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Yosem Companys wrote: > If so, please let me know. Stanford's School of Engineering has a > junior (untenured) search underway this year, and I have been asked to > recommend great potential candidates to the Search Committee. > > The i

Re: [liberationtech] A Hippocratic Oath for Techies & Policymakers

2012-07-07 Thread Terry Winograd
Max, thank you for doing this, and I'm pleased to see that material from CPSR is still relevant and valuable to your thinking. I like the basic thrust and had a couple of comments. The first is that although the preamble may have gone without objection for Rickover in 1965, you will avoid a lot o

[liberationtech] Fwd: Evgeny Morozov ('The Net Delusion') curbs Web enthusiasm - latimes.com

2012-06-23 Thread Terry Winograd
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-cyberskeptic-20120621,0,3227580,full.story Evgeny Morozov ('The Net Delusion') curbs Web enthusiasm - latimes.com Evgeny Morozov, in warning of 'iPod liberalism' at a TED conference and taking on tech giants in the New Republic and elsewhere, is a le

Re: [liberationtech] Urgent question

2012-06-04 Thread Terry Winograd
>From the policy page: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech " (*The subscribers list is only available to the list administrator.*) " --t On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Greg Norcie wrote: > Sam makes a great point. > > In general, it is a best practice to assume that a

Re: [liberationtech] Outside of the list/listmembers is Libtech basically private, or basically public? WAS - Re: Urgent question

2012-06-04 Thread Terry Winograd
from our list policy: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Liberationtech is a moderated but open list, which means that anyone can join. As a friendly reminder, please take the necessary security and privacy precautions such as using pseudonyms, fake email addresses, https