Today Monday April 20 2015 at 6pm, the OpenITP Techno-Activism Third Monday‘s forum Civil Liberties In the United States tackles the nexus between tech and the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States. From political efforts to outlaw government surveillance, to active citizen-surveillance of repressive actors, to viral exposés of corruption, tech and the Internet – and the increased transparency they bring – have changed the game. Leading activists will discuss the state of play. Speakers: Naomi Wolf, Author; Shahid Buttar, Director of Bill of Rights Defense Committee; Mike German, fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice. The event will be webcast live via the Internet Society Livestream Channel.

What: Civil Liberties In the United States
Where: New America Foundation, 199 Lafayette Ave, Suite 3b, NYC
When: Monday April 20 2015 at 6pm
Attend: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/civil-liberties-in-the-united-states-tickets-16357125603 (free)
Webcast: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/openitpcivilrights
Twitter: #TA3M

#civil-rights, #openitp, #ta3m

On Monday March 17 2014, the OpenITP Techno-Activism Third Monday‘s featured presenter was Professor Susan McGregor of Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. Her topic was Journalists, Security Practices & The Future . The primary challenges that journalists face in adopting effective security practices in their work. While the AP phone records case and the Edward Snowden revelations have helped raise security awareness among journalists, the industry faces significant challenges in constructing a coherent approach to these challenges, including a lack of appropriate tools and training materials. The talk addresses these issues as well as some possible paths for improvement. Before Susan spoke, Magnus Ag of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) introduced and gave away copies of their latest international press freedom guide. Video is below.

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/tu0_ySgLgys
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/MLtGds3uleQG/
Slides: Slides: http://bit.ly/1r19Teb
Twitter: #TA3M

#cjp, #journalism, #onternet-freedom, #openitp, #privacy, #surveillance, #ta3m, #tow-center

On Monday February 17 2014, the OpenITP Techno-Activism Third Monday‘s featured presenter was Professor Claudia Diaz of KU Leuven. Her topic was Privacy Technologies: The Future of Research. She reviewed the three “families” or classifications for privacy technologies being proposed by computer science researchers which are described as addressing 1) Social Privacy, 2) Institutional Privacy, and 3) Surveillance Concerns. Diaz discussed the concept of “privacy” that is embedded in the different classifications, including the underlying assumptions, goals, challenges and limitations. Video is below.

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/QWEEBB-sZKI
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/xskpbKWsjQqf/
Twitter: #TA3M

#claudia-diaz, #openitp, #privacy, #ta3m

At the NYC January 20 2014 edition of the NYC OpenITP Techno-Activism 3rd Monday Twitter security engineer Jan Schaumann presented Privacy & Social Networks: All Is Not lost! (But We Need Your Help) – a look at the responsibilities we have on both sides of the fence: as users and as service providers; as engineers and as designers; as experts and as laymen; as students and as educators; to resolve the inherent conflicts between utility, exploitation, and privacy in social networks. The companies offering the services are frequently (portrayed as being) more interested in profiling their users in order to make advertising bucks rather than protect them. But things aren’t always black and white. Video is below.

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/QmMIEewpFHQ
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/NWy2A48gYprL/
Presentation: http://www.netmeister.org/blog/all-is-not-lost.html
Twitter: @jschauma | #ta3m

#openitp, #privacy, #social-media, #surveillance, #ta3m, #twitter

This was the inaugural event in the regular OpenITP Techno-Activism Third Monday (TA3M) series. Featured speaker was data scientist Sara-Jayne Farmer of Change Assembly, who spoke passionately about the shortfalls of current crisis and development data practice. January 21 2013 at New America Foundation NYC. Video is below.

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/Pc-8r0bt4ZY
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/s6ECjJmCB2Qg/
Audio: http://punkcast.com/2138/2138-01_sara_farmer.mp3
Twitter: #crisismapping : @bodaceacat

#change-assembly, #crisis, #data, #data-sicience, #disaster, #internet-freedom, #mapping, #new-america-foundation, #openitp, #sara-farmer, #ta3m

At the OpenITP Techno-Activism Third Monday on May 20, 2013 at CUNY Graduate Center NYC, OpenCUNY presented Alfredo Lopez, founder of May First/People Link (MF/PL), who shared his experience running a progressive and collaborative ISP. Video is below.

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/4UsGUUUHjtI
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/vGSG6kkQMdCM/
Twitter: #TA3M

May First/People Link is a membership-led and driven organization comprised of about 450 organizations and another 400 individuals making for a total of nearly 3,000 people in the organization. It is a politically progressive organization, democratically run, and organized in both the United States and Mexico

Alfred explains:

• Why you should care about what type of ISP you have (Hint: They can see and share your online traffic)
• Why MF/PL was setup as a unique alternative Internet provider.
• How their infra-structure is different than most ISPs (support, server maintenance, and staffing) and why.
• How democracy works in MF/PL and the success and challenges they have had.
• The political challenges they face including lack of diversity in technology.
• How other movements, such as the Climate Change movement, interact and enrich the members of the collective.

#access, #alfredo-lopes, #isp, #may-firstpeople-link, #opencuny, #openitp, #ta3m

At the February 2013 OpenITP Tech-Activism 3rd Monday in NYC Nabiha Syed talked about online safety for journalists and small publishers. Nabiha co-founded Yale University’s Media Law Clinic, and since has been a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, worked at the New York Times as their First Amendment Fellow, and currently works as an attorney at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, LLP. Video is below. Please try to find time to contribute to transcribing at AMARA.

• View on YouTube
• Transcribe at AMARA

#journalism, #law, #media, #nabiha-syed, #openitp, #publishing, #safety, #security, #ta3m

Tonight, Monday February 18 2013, the Free Culture Alliance NYC will meet at the monthly OpenITP Techno-Activism Third Monday. As well as the usual food and drink the featured presented will be Jeff Hermes, Director, Digital Media Law Project, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, who will provide activists with advice and tools that will help them minimize their risks and protect themselves and understand their online rights.

What: February Techno-Activism 3rd Monday
When: Monday, February 18, 2012 at 6:00 PM (EST)
Where: New America Foundation, 199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3b. NYC
Register: http://hactivism.eventbrite.com/
Webcast: Will be recorded.
Twitter: #TA3M : @OpenITP
Contact: Sandra @ sandraordonez@openitp.org

#activism, #berkman, #free-culture-alliance, #hactivism, #law, #openitp

The Open Internet Tools Project (OpenITP) and the Open Technology Institute (OTI) are both participating in the GNOME Outreach Program for Women internship outreach program. OpenITP’s Internship Program for Women! details their ongoing tasks and programs.

Other participating organizations include Mozilla, Tor, and Wikimedia. Applications close on December 3 2012.

#foss, #job, #openitp, #oti, #women

ISOC-NY President David Solomonoff interviewd several of the participants at last week’s Circumvention Tools Hackfest at Columbia Law School. The entire playlist is here. Individual videos are below:
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#censorship, #circumvention, #commotion-wireless, #david-solomonoff, #hackfest, #mesh, #openitp, #privacy-censorship

The Open Internet Tools Project has partnered with FreedomBox, InformSec and ISOC-NY to host a circumvention tools hackfest in NYC right before HOPE. The hackfest started yesterday and there are still three days left to plan, code and learn! If you want to hack on anti-censorship or anti-surveillance tools, bring your project, bring your skills and bring your friends. This event will be focused on writing code and solving design problems. We won’t have any long presentations (there will be enough of those at HOPE), though we will have lightning talks and will give away a door prize or two.

Where: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, 116th and Amsterdam (Room 546)
When: July 9 – 12, 10 am
Who: Privacy and free communication hackers like you
Contact:  kaurin at openitp.org
Info: http://openitp.org/?q=node/12

#freedom-box, #hack, #internet-freedom, #openitp

The Open Internet Tools Project  is hiring for two positions.  While OpenITP is headquartered in DC, these positions aren’t tied to that city.

First is a program associate, which can be in DC or NYC:
http://newamerica.net/node/66466

And second, an outreach manager/community person, which can be just about anywhere: http://newamerica.net/node/66465

James Vasile is the director of OpenITP and based in NYC, feel free to ping him with questions  at vasile@softwarefreedom.org

About OpenITP

OpenITP supports and incubates a collection of free and open source projects that enable anonymous, secure, reliable, and unrestricted communication on the Internet. Its goal is to enable people to talk directly to each other without being censored, surveilled or restricted.

OpenITP works to make its projects more accessible to both users and developers, building collaborative, sustainable tools that enhance whole categories of communication technology.

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