Re: [liberationtech] Towards a Public Communication and Information Infrastructure

Folks with an interest in the "delivering community power" proposal might also find this of interest...(its something of a riff off that proposal https://gurstein.wordpress.com/2016/04/15/repurposing-post-offices-as-community-innovation-hub-inclusion-equity-and-deconcentration/ M On Mon, May 9,

[liberationtech] Just Net Coalition Response to NetMundial Outcome Document

Please find below and attached the Just Net Coalition's response to the draft NetMundial Outcome Document. * Just Net Coalition Response to NetMundial Outcome Document * President Dilma's Speech in the UN General assembly last September, resonated throughout the world. It expressed the outrage of

[liberationtech] FW: Just Net Coalition publication: Delhi declaration and related articles

Moving forward the necessary discussion on a political economy of the Internet the essays pointed to below were compiled for NETmundial – The Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance meeting about to start in São Paulo discussing the future of Int

[liberationtech] Blogpost: The Multistakeholder Model, Neo-liberalism and Global (Internet) Governance

http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/the-multistakeholder-model-neo-libe ralism-and-global-internet-governance/ http://t.co/EU8F1LgUn6 Mike -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stan

[liberationtech] FW: Dronification?

Could "fly by wire" flight MH 370 have been hacked a la SCADA/Stuxnet and turned into a drone? http://americablog.com/2014/03/malaysia-air-flight-370-hacked.html?utm_sourc e=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americablog+%28AMERICAblog +News+%29 -- Liberationtech is public & archiv

[liberationtech] FW: An Internet for the Common Good: Engagement, Empowerment and Justice for All: A Community Informatics Declaration

An Internet for the Common Good: Engagement, Empowerment and Justice for All A Community Informatics Declaration Effective use of the Internet will benefit everyone. Currently the benefits of the Internet are distributed unequally: so

[liberationtech] So, What Do We Do Now? Living in a Post-Snowden World

http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/so-what-do-we-do-now-living-in-a-po st-snowden-world/ http://tinyurl.com/pvghcey So, What Do We Do Now? Living in a Post-Snowden World Michael Gurstein As the avalanche of Snowden revelations resumes after it's brief organizational regroupin

[liberationtech] FW: Mandela/Madiba

As we recognize, mourn and celebrate Mandela/Madiba it might be worthwhile to circulate and examine the draft South Africa ICT Policy Framing paper. This paper, I've been told by a Community Informatics colleague who is on the SA Gove

Re: [liberationtech] pushback

29, 2013 8:08 PM To: Michael Gurstein Subject: pushback http://news.yahoo.com/techies-vs-nsa-encryption-arms-race-escalates-15393160 0--finance.html Snake Oil for sale :) -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you mod

[liberationtech] Blogpost: Internet Justice: A Meme Whose Time Has Come

Perhaps this may be of interest http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/internet-justice-a-meme-whose-time- has-come/ http://tinyurl.com/lwuyvdk Comments (preferably on the blogsite itself) greatfully welcomed. (I see this as a bit of a living document and it has already been somewhat modified

[liberationtech] FW: OA Journal of Community Informatics Passes Million Downloaded Papers Mark

, Mike Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics web: http://ci-journal.net email: gurst...@gmail.com -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mai

[liberationtech] FW: [bestbits] Rousseff & Chehade: Brazil will host world event on Internet governance in 2014

A very very important post-Snowden development. Bravo to Brazil (and Chehade)! M Bestbits.net [mailto:bestbits-requ...@lists.bestbits.net] On Behalf Of Carlos A. Afonso Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 2:46 PM To: Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus - IGC; NCSG List; BestBits List Subject:

[liberationtech] FW: What the IETF is thinking about Prism these days..

Title : Prismatic Reflections Author(s) : Brian Carpenter Filename: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt Pages : 9 Date: 2013-09-19 Abstract: Recent public d

Re: [liberationtech] Blogpost: "Internet Freedom" and Post-Snowden Global Internet Governance

. Fioretti Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 12:03 AM To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Blogpost: "Internet Freedom" and Post-Snowden Global Internet Governance On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 16:03:30 PM -0700, michael gurstein wrote: > With

[liberationtech] Blogpost: "Internet Freedom" and Post-Snowden Global Internet Governance

With links http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/internet-freedom-and-post-snowden-g lobal-internet-governance/ http://tinyurl.com/n3onw87 "Internet Freedom" and Post-Snowden Global Internet Governance: Michael Gurstein The big story for the 2012 Internet Governance Forum in Ba

[liberationtech] FW: ERTopen: Call upon & plea for satellite capacity

-Original Message- From: nettime-l-boun...@mail.kein.org [mailto:nettime-l-boun...@mail.kein.org] On Behalf Of nettime's avid reader Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 3:28 AM To: nettim...@mx.kein.org Subject: ERTopen: Call upon & plea for satellite capacity http://www.ertopen.com/news-

[liberationtech] FW: [Dewayne-Net] New Snowden Leak Reports 'Groundbreaking' Developments in Cryptoanalysis

-Original Message- From: dewayne-...@warpspeed.com [mailto:dewayne-...@warpspeed.com] On Behalf Of Dewayne Hendricks Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 4:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net Subject: [Dewayne-Net] New Snowden Leak Reports 'Groundbreaking' N New Snowden Leak Reports 'G

[liberationtech] FW: Re : URGENT: Request for endorsing a civil society statement on democratising Internet governance as input to UN Working Group

the Internet. Please circulate widely! Note that the last date to send your endorsement is 29th August Dear Michael Gurstein, Greetings from IT for Change! You had participated in a campaign for 'democratising the global governance of the Internet <http://www.itforch

[liberationtech] FW: NSA Admits: Okay, Okay, There Have Been A Bunch Of Intentional Abuses, Including Spying On Love Interests | Techdirt

Okay, so we have a few joke "abuses" to divert attention but what about the intentional non-abuses and the non-joke ones... Unless the NSA folks are just a bunch of love sick adolescents without plans for after retirement or some aspirations for making a killing in the stock market or that the way

[liberationtech] FW: [Dewayne-Net] Are Hackers the Next Bogeyman Used to Scare Americans Into Giving Up More Rights?

-Original Message- From: dewayne-...@warpspeed.com [mailto:dewayne-...@warpspeed.com] On Behalf Of Dewayne Hendricks Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:32 AM To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Are Hackers the Next Bogeyman Used to Scare Americans Into Giving Up More

[liberationtech] FW: [Dewayne-Net] NSA to cut system administrators by 90 percent to limit data access

-Original Message- From: dewayne-...@warpspeed.com [mailto:dewayne-...@warpspeed.com] On Behalf Of Dewayne Hendricks Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 4:17 PM To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net Subject: [Dewayne-Net] NSA to cut system administrators by 90 percent to limit data access [Note

Re: [liberationtech] Critically Examining "What Would Happen" if the U.N. (or another international body) Administered the Internet?

Hi Zack, A belated response. This issue is a/the primary subject of discussion at the annual UN sponsored Internet Governance Forum and the associated e-list of the Internet Governance civil society caucus. I've covered some

Re: [liberationtech] PRISM & Open Data

I think that there is another link as well... Much of the Open Data initiative/discussion is about data transparency... making government operations more transparent (and thus enhancing the presumed accountability of government operations/activities to citizens). In some sense privacy is also ab

[liberationtech] The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus supports the Electronic Frontier Foundation concerns regarding DRM in HTML5

For Immediate Release The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus supports the Electronic Frontier Foundation concerns regarding DRM in HTML5 BERN & SUVA June 14 2013 - The Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus adopted a statement this week supporting the formal objection lodged by the E

[liberationtech] FW: [Ottawadissenters] Infinite Romeo: The Secret Government Program to Manipulate Dating Sites

Now we know. M From: ottawadissent...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ottawadissent...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Kurtz Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 6:48 AM Subject: [Ottawadissenters] Infinite Romeo: The Secret Government Program to Manipulate Dating Sites http://dailycurrant.com/201

Re: [liberationtech] the Blackberry and Surveillance?

I haven`t been watching that closely but in the course of my following the current discussions on surveillance I have yet to see a reference to RIM/Blackberry... Is this because it`s recent loss of market share means it isn`t of particular interest (I would have thought the up to recent user demo

Re: [liberationtech] Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data

Sad but I guess true, but there has been a huge amount of learning from this particularly internationally and the reverberations on that will continue and perhaps even grow for a very very long time. M -Original Message- From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationte

[liberationtech] FW: [IP] Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program - NYTimes.com

-Original Message- From: David Farber [mailto:d...@farber.net] Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 7:30 AM To: ip Subject: [IP] Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program - NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/technology/tech-companies-bristling-conced e-to-government-surveillance

Re: [liberationtech] PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

So what if it was a one character typo? "m" substituted for "b"... happens all the time in these kinds of presentations... M -Original Message- From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Eugen Leitl Sent: Friday, June 07

[liberationtech] James Clapper (Director of USA National Intelligence) said in a statement

James Clapper (Director of USA National Intelligence) said in a statement, per USA Today--the program (PRISM) has clear "limits": "It cannot be used to intentionally target any US citizen, any other US person, or anyone located within the United States." Reassuring I guess, unless you don't happe

Re: [liberationtech] Airline Shutdown Because of Loss of Internet Service?

hey depend on any SaaS (from Salesforce.com for CRM to Maximo for Asset management), or, in general, XaaS (AWS, Rackspace, etc.), for critical business systems, a fast-growing trend, the Internet is their "backbone." On Jun 6, 2013 2:45 AM, "michael gurstein" wrote: This is prob

Re: [liberationtech] Airline Shutdown Because of Loss of Internet Service?

] Airline Shutdown Because of Loss of Internet Service? On 06/06/2013 03:45 AM, michael gurstein wrote: > This is probably not a Liberation issue directly but I'm not sure > where else to address it... > > Sunday I was flying (Porter Airlines--small short hop Canadian >

Re: [liberationtech] Airline Shutdown Because of Loss of Internet Service? MICHAEL GURSTEIN AND YOSSEM

t: Re: [liberationtech] Airline Shutdown Because of Loss of Internet Service? MICHAEL GURSTEIN AND YOSSEM Importance: High I would like to post this on my FB wall Would that be all right? Seems to me to be very important, with all the horrible talk going on in favor of internet voting I await

[liberationtech] Airline Shutdown Because of Loss of Internet Service?

This is probably not a Liberation issue directly but I'm not sure where else to address it... Sunday I was flying (Porter Airlines--small short hop Canadian carrier) from NYC to Ottawa, ON with a plane change in Toronto. When we arrived in Toronto we were informed that "because the Internet was do

[liberationtech] BBC: Izmir police arrested 25 people for tweeting "misinformation".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22776946 Also in Izmir, state-run Anatolia news agency reported that police had arrested 25 people for tweeting "misinformation". An official from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Ali Engin, told Anatolia they were being held for "callin

[liberationtech] FW: Call for Papers (Abstracts) Community Informatics and the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)

Please forward as appropriate. == Call for Papers: Special Issue – Community Informatics and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) The Journal of Community Informatics (http://ci-journal.net) Abstract submissions due June 15, 2013 Full pape

Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals & conferences

ink what it means is putting something into a context which authenticates the process of "publication" i.e. it is "published" because we/they/someone says that it is being "published"... But maybe in the end we are saying the same thing but using words in a slightly differen

Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals & conferences

nario. >But that decreases the number of journals and the amount of available >info... > >On 04/08/2013 04:19 PM, michael gurstein wrote: >> I'm wondering whether some global equivalent of the copyright >> collection societies >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop

Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals & conferences

bscriptions to paying for their university faculty's publication fees. If the ultimate product is an open access publication, then the issue isn't paying for access, but rather paying to produce the public good. - Rob Gehl On 04/08/2013 11:42 AM, michael gurstein wrote: Publis

Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals & conferences

Publishing may be dirt cheap but any systematic/formal e.g. academic publishing isn't free... So the problem is that while there is a necessary and valuable shift from commercial publishing (and outrageous profiteering) to open access online publishing there really aren't any good business models y

Re: [liberationtech] [CivicAccess-discuss] Secrecy for Sale: How ICIJ's Project Team Analyzed the Offshore Files

From: civicaccess-discuss-boun...@civicaccess.ca [mailto:civicaccess-discuss-boun...@civicaccess.ca] On Behalf Of Tracey P. Lauriault Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 11:02 AM To: civicaccess discuss Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] Secrecy for Sale: How ICIJ's Project Team Analyzed the Offshore Files

Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

Ahh, the big enders vs. little enders discussion Pt. 212c IMHE, bottom posting is a techie thing for folks used to scrolling through long back and forths with siginficant details being added in a successive fashion... Top posting is a non-techie thing for folks who are looking to bring substantiv

Re: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?

Hi, I'm not sure but this might be of some relevance here http://www.n4c.eu/ (you should substitute a helicopter for the motorcycle and reindeer and reindeer herders for rural dwellers in India or Pakistan... (The underlying technology is called DTN-Delay Tolerant Networking. (technical contact

Re: [liberationtech] Julian Assange is seeking asylum

I would have thought it was more like a huge fear of being (unreasonably) trolled. M -Original Message- From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of KheOps Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 1:24 PM To: liberationtech@lists.sta