[liberationtech] Mixed methods Internet research
From: Christine Hine christine.h...@btinternet.com I'm currently writing a review article on mixed methods Internet research, and I'd really appreciate suggestions I might have overlooked of examples where researchers combine qualitative and quantitative methods, or large-scale and small-scale research designs in understanding Internet phenomenon. I'm looking, for example, for instances where researchers combine analysis of log file data, or twitter traffic etc with an in-depth ethnographic or interview-based study. I'm also interested in mixed mode studies, which combine online and offline research or use both born-digital data and studies rooted in offline settings to answer a single research question. Any suggestions gratefully received - I'm happy to take replies offlist and then share the outcomes with the list. Best wishes, Christine Christine Hine Department of Sociology University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7NX, UK c.h...@surrey.ac.uk https://email.surrey.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=ef59d54d448441028a5438f2cc7ca03 8URL=mailto%3ac.hine%40surrey.ac.uk -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Mixed methods Internet research
To toot my own horn, here's a study I did last year http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./j.1460-2466.2012.01633.x/full On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.eduwrote: From: Christine Hine christine.h...@btinternet.com I'm currently writing a review article on mixed methods Internet research, and I'd really appreciate suggestions I might have overlooked of examples where researchers combine qualitative and quantitative methods, or large-scale and small-scale research designs in understanding Internet phenomenon. I'm looking, for example, for instances where researchers combine analysis of log file data, or twitter traffic etc with an in-depth ethnographic or interview-based study. I'm also interested in mixed mode studies, which combine online and offline research or use both born-digital data and studies rooted in offline settings to answer a single research question. Any suggestions gratefully received - I'm happy to take replies offlist and then share the outcomes with the list. Best wishes, Christine Christine Hine Department of Sociology University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7NX, UK c.h...@surrey.ac.uk https://email.surrey.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=ef59d54d448441028a5438f2cc7ca03 8URL=mailto%3ac.hine%40surrey.ac.ukhttps://email.surrey.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=ef59d54d448441028a5438f2cc7ca038URL=mailto%3ac.hine%40surrey.ac.uk -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
[liberationtech] F2C Videos are up!
From: David S. Isenberg i...@isen.com Thanks to the Internet Society, especially Joly McFie, Paul Brigner, Paul Hyland and Paul Franz, the approximately complete video archive of F2C: Freedom to Connect for 2013 is now up at http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/f2c for your viewing pleasure and/or convenient surveillance. If you were not able to come, we hope to see you next year! If you were able to come, please stay tuned to the attendee-only list for important exclusive information critical to the protection of the free, open Internet. [Non-attendees may obtain a copy of a completely legal image of the entire proceedings from ATT, Room 641A, 611 Folsom Street, San Francisco CA 94107.] If you care about the free, open Internet -- and media democracy in general -- you will not want to miss the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, April 4-7. I'm going. Wouldn't miss it. http://conference.freepress.net/ncmr-2013 Check out some of the amazing speakers! (F2C should be so lucky.) http://conference.freepress.net/presenters CU@F2C14 if we can keep the Internet open for one more year! David I -- 203-661-4798 (main number, follows me everywhere) 888-isen.com (toll free) Twitter: @davidisen http://isen.com/blog -- -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community
I'd be interested to join. Saludos, Antoine If there is enough interest, we could create a Spanish-speaking list. I would like that, as a native Spanish speaker myself, with an interest in Liberationtech issues in Spain and Latin America. On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Eduardo Robles Elvira edu...@wadobo.com wrote: Hello there! I don't know how many others spanish-speaking people are there, but I'm a spaniard living in Madrid, we can get in touch =) I'm the lead developer of agoravoting.com, an e-democracy voting tool with support for vote delegation. Regards, -- Eduardo Robles Elvira +34 668 824 393skype: edulix2 http://www.wadobo.comit's not magic, it's wadobo! -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community
Yah esta :) On 3/6/13 2:17 PM, Daniel H. Cabrera wrote: interesado Daniel H. Cabrera Altieri Profesor Titular de Teoría de la Comunicación Coordinador del Grado en Periodismo Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Universidad de Zaragoza Te. (34) 976761000 ext. 4043 c/ Pedro Cerbuna 12 - Zaragoza- 50009 España *De:* a.nou...@secdev.ca a.nou...@secdev.ca *Para:* liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu *CC:* sandraordo...@openitp.org *Enviado:* Miércoles 6 de marzo de 2013 17:40 *Asunto:* Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community I'd be interested to join. Saludos, Antoine If there is enough interest, we could create a Spanish-speaking list. I would like that, as a native Spanish speaker myself, with an interest in Liberationtech issues in Spain and Latin America. On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Eduardo Robles Elvira edu...@wadobo.com mailto:edu...@wadobo.com wrote: Hello there! I don't know how many others spanish-speaking people are there, but I'm a spaniard living in Madrid, we can get in touch =) I'm the lead developer of agoravoting.com, an e-democracy voting tool with support for vote delegation. Regards, -- Eduardo Robles Elvira+34 668 824 393skype: edulix2 http://www.wadobo.com http://www.wadobo.com/it's not magic, it's wadobo! -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu mailto:compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu mailto:compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu mailto:compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Sandra Ordonez Community Outreach Manager Open Internet Tools Project @OpenITP -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?
I'm assuming privacy issues are of minimal concern given the other problems at play here - I could be wrong but bear with me. Trying to think of lowest-cost, reliable, easiest to expand and re-deploy without a telco or other licensing. I wonder is a low-bandwidth text HF APRS ( http://www.aprs.org/aprs-messaging.html) option with a laminated deck of shorthand medical terms would be a reasonable remote field option? About as rudimentary as you get but considering a worst case scenario - it might just work. -Ali On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Sky (Jim Schuyler) s...@red7.com wrote: Since HAM (amateur radio) is real radio, not phone, an Android app wouldn't use it directly. The app might -control- an amateur radio remotely, and there is software available to do this. However, I'm not sure what benefit it would bring to this project. In the US, amateur radio operators must send all information in clear text, and encryption is illegal, thus you would not want to try to exchange medical info because you'd need to encrypt it. In other countries it -should- be illegal to transmit medical info in the clear, so I'd suggest avoiding this. Also, high frequency amateur radio doesn't have sufficient bandwidth to transfer much digital information. VHF/UHF does in theory, but in general amateur radio operators restrict their bandwidth and the maximum usable transfer rate is under 9600 baud. i.e. very slow. -Sky AA6AX - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sky (Jim Schuyler, PhD) -We work backstage so you can be the star Blog: http://blog.red7.com/ Phone: +1.415.759.7337 PGP Keys: http://web.red7.com/pgp On Mar 5, 2013, at 5:47 PM, ITechGeek i...@itechgeek.com wrote: Depends on what information you might be transmitting and the specific laws of the local country/countries involved. HAMs have to be licensed through the local countries licensing authority (in the case of the US would be the FCC). Under US you could probably get away with allowing them to coordinate if it is non-profit in nature, but you would not be able to discuss any medical information that would allow a third party to possibly identify the patient. And some countries are very restrictive on who can get HAM licenses due to the potential to get around their propaganda controls. Also rules can change based on frequencies being used cause lower frequencies can transmit further. Can you provide the country or countries involved? --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu wrote: From: Dr. Tusharkanti Dey dr.tusharkanti...@gmail.com Dear All, I am proposing to set up a ICT based health project in tribal areas with poor infrastructural facilities with poor cell phone connectivity due to unstable signal strengths. i have learnt that HAM radio software from HamSphere is downloadable on android phones.I would like to know whether these android phones with HAM radio software installed can be used for communication used for voice communication between health workers themselves and with head quarter staff. Will it be legally permissible and what technical requirements will be needed to set up such system. The other alternative of setting up of mobile signal boosters or long distance WiFi hubs are currently not affordable to our limited resource organisation Thanks, Dr.Tusharkanti Dey -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?
Your APRS idea is interesting and I only know it from the positioning side, not from passing any text, so you may want to continue looking into it. I do not know that APRS is currently passing any traffic other than positions, at least as used in the US. I also do not know whether it's used outside the US. Please do remember that APRS and most other amateur digital service are not designed to be reliable which means they may not try again to pass a message and the message may become garbled in transmission. Some do attempt to error-correct, but not most. Some more observations on your criteria: Low-cost: maybe. Each operator has to have equipment which generally runs USD$500 to many thousands. Also Android is low cost if you have some kind of connection to the radio operator. So the last mile or first mile depending on how you look at it, is not expensive. But you said tribal areas, so I don't know what your challenges would be on that count. Reliable: amateur radio has varying reliability, and it is easily interfered with if someone wants to do that. In planning emergency operations we take into account that there may be malicious interference even during an emergency. Even most amateur radio digital protocols do not have very robust error-correction, so they're a bit iffy. Easiest to expand: maybe and maybe not. You have to have a stable of radio operators available both locally and remotely. (Presuming you want information to go from somewhere to somewhere.) Without a telco: Yes for the amateur portion at least. Without licensing: Although I encourage folks to become amateur radio operators, they do need to be licensed. The government that giveth it can taketh it away at the stroke of a pen. I will skip saying more right now. Also I note in your original statement that you are talking about tribal areas with poor connectivity. Your challenge is going to be getting your signal from the tribal area to a reliable amateur radio operator. That's unless the radio operator is already in the tribal area. If the cell phone can's connect, then amateur VHF and UHF probably wouldn't work either, so you'd have to rely upon HF with longer range but much greater variability in terms of signal propagation. Keep in mind that amateur radio is a point-to-point service subject to the vagaries of radio propagation. In other words, there is no reliable path 24/7 from one point to another unless you're using prearranged VHF or UHF frequencies and line of sight propagation. Commonly for emergency ops we arrange all of this in advance and have emergency power and operators trained, and frequencies and modes chosen. For HF propagation there is no guarantee your message will get through because the bands may be dead. We've been thinking here (San Francisco) of linking amateur packet radio with local mesh wi-fi (see Byzantium Project for example) to transfer some traffic in semi-automated ways during emergency, but this is a long way from actual implementation. The Byzantium folks are on this list and can comment. HF: high frequency (meaning roughly 1mHz to many gHz, which is reliant upon ionospheric conditions for signal propagation VHF: very high frequency (generally 100mHz to 150mHz) line of sight mostly, with repeaters being generally used UHF: ultra… (generally 200mHz and up) line of sight mostly, and repeaters APRS: Automatic Packet Reporting System (a digital position-reportig protocol used on certain amateur frequencies) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sky (Jim Schuyler, PhD) -We work backstage so you can be the star Blog: http://blog.red7.com/ Phone: +1.415.759.7337 PGP Keys: http://web.red7.com/pgp On Mar 6, 2013, at 12:08 PM, Ali-Reza Anghaie a...@packetknife.com wrote: I'm assuming privacy issues are of minimal concern given the other problems at play here - I could be wrong but bear with me. Trying to think of lowest-cost, reliable, easiest to expand and re-deploy without a telco or other licensing. I wonder is a low-bandwidth text HF APRS (http://www.aprs.org/aprs-messaging.html) option with a laminated deck of shorthand medical terms would be a reasonable remote field option? About as rudimentary as you get but considering a worst case scenario - it might just work. -Ali On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Sky (Jim Schuyler) s...@red7.com wrote: Since HAM (amateur radio) is real radio, not phone, an Android app wouldn't use it directly. The app might -control- an amateur radio remotely, and there is software available to do this. However, I'm not sure what benefit it would bring to this project. In the US, amateur radio operators must send all information in clear text, and encryption is illegal, thus you would not want to try to exchange medical info because you'd need to encrypt it. In other countries it -should- be illegal to transmit medical info in the clear, so I'd suggest
Re: [liberationtech] F2C Videos are up!
Hey, thanks! I'll do my best to further promulgate these. BTW, I had not been aware of the Denver conference. It's likely too late for me to go, but will track it, if possible, with the aid of the free Internet. :-) Cheers louis On 13-03-06, at 11:29 , Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu wrote: From: David S. Isenberg i...@isen.com Thanks to the Internet Society, especially Joly McFie, Paul Brigner, Paul Hyland and Paul Franz, the approximately complete video archive of F2C: Freedom to Connect for 2013 is now up at http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/f2c for your viewing pleasure and/or convenient surveillance. If you were not able to come, we hope to see you next year! If you were able to come, please stay tuned to the attendee-only list for important exclusive information critical to the protection of the free, open Internet. [Non-attendees may obtain a copy of a completely legal image of the entire proceedings from ATT, Room 641A, 611 Folsom Street, San Francisco CA 94107.] If you care about the free, open Internet -- and media democracy in general -- you will not want to miss the National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, April 4-7. I'm going. Wouldn't miss it. http://conference.freepress.net/ncmr-2013 Check out some of the amazing speakers! (F2C should be so lucky.) http://conference.freepress.net/presenters CU@F2C14 if we can keep the Internet open for one more year! David I -- 203-661-4798 (main number, follows me everywhere) 888-isen.com (toll free) Twitter: @davidisen http://isen.com/blog -- -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy AA6AX, Nice to meet you. On 6 Mar 2013, at 21:09, Sky (Jim Schuyler) wrote: Your APRS idea is interesting and I only know it from the positioning side, not from passing any text, so you may want to continue looking into it. I do not know that APRS is currently passing any traffic other than positions, at least as used in the US. I also do not know whether it's used outside the US. Please do remember that APRS and most other amateur digital service are not designed to be reliable which means they may not try again to pass a message and the message may become garbled in transmission. Some do attempt to error-correct, but not most. Not strictly true. APRS clients can be configured to send messages and retry for X attempts. Then it will give up. Seeing as SMS transmission isn't even guaranteed, I think its a pretty good attempt for a system that has been developed totally for free! :) Even most amateur radio digital protocols do not have very robust error-correction, so they're a bit iffy. That is true. Easiest to expand: maybe and maybe not. You have to have a stable of radio operators available both locally and remotely. (Presuming you want information to go from somewhere to somewhere.) If as Dr. Dey requested both sides of the communications were between health workers and their HQ, you could train up all the health workers and possibly even employ a net controller (amateur radio lingo for person who sits in HQ and is in contact with all the field posts) to co-ordinate communications. Without licensing: Although I encourage folks to become amateur radio operators, they do need to be licensed. The government that giveth it can taketh it away at the stroke of a pen. I will skip saying more right now. I agree. I'd go a bit further even and say a restricted licence now-adays is trivial to receive. Also I note in your original statement that you are talking about tribal areas with poor connectivity. Your challenge is going to be getting your signal from the tribal area to a reliable amateur radio operator. That's unless the radio operator is already in the tribal area. If the cell phone can's connect, then amateur VHF and UHF probably wouldn't work either, so you'd have to rely upon HF with longer range but much greater variability in terms of signal propagation. How much can you build a self-sustaining 2M VHF repeater for now-a-days? :) Keep in mind that amateur radio is a point-to-point service subject to the vagaries of radio propagation. In other words, there is no reliable path 24/7 from one point to another unless you're using prearranged VHF or UHF frequencies and line of sight propagation. Commonly for emergency ops we arrange all of this in advance and have emergency power and operators trained, and frequencies and modes chosen. For HF propagation there is no guarantee your message will get through because the bands may be dead. Which is kinda similar when it comes to mobile networks. If it was possible to get a telco to carry out some corporate social responsability work and install even just 2G voice that would be something. I would argue, you can get a lot more communications bang for buck with some trained amateur radio engineers, and some amateur radio equipment, than spotty 3G coverage. Mobile operators work on the premise: when we will make enough money from people, we will install equipment. I'd honestly hope they have a different business model outside of Europe, but I don't think so. 73's /Bernard On Mar 6, 2013, at 12:08 PM, Ali-Reza Anghaie a...@packetknife.com wrote: I'm assuming privacy issues are of minimal concern given the other problems at play here - I could be wrong but bear with me. Trying to think of lowest-cost, reliable, easiest to expand and re-deploy without a telco or other licensing. I wonder is a low-bandwidth text HF APRS (http://www.aprs.org/aprs-messaging.html) option with a laminated deck of shorthand medical terms would be a reasonable remote field option? About as rudimentary as you get but considering a worst case scenario - it might just work. -Ali On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Sky (Jim Schuyler) s...@red7.com wrote: Since HAM (amateur radio) is real radio, not phone, an Android app wouldn't use it directly. The app might -control- an amateur radio remotely, and there is software available to do this. However, I'm not sure what benefit it would bring to this project. In the US, amateur radio operators must send all information in clear text, and encryption is illegal, thus you would not want to try to exchange medical info because you'd need to encrypt it. In other countries it -should- be illegal to transmit medical info in the clear, so I'd suggest avoiding this. Also, high frequency amateur radio doesn't have sufficient bandwidth to transfer much digital
Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community
Aqui presente y interesado en contectar con otros hispanhablantes activo en el tema... (here and interested in connecting with other spanish speakers active on this issue) Robert -- R. Guerra Phone/Cell: +1 202-905-2081 Twitter: twitter.com/netfreedom Email: rgue...@privaterra.org On 2013-03-05, at 11:56 AM, Sandra ordonez wrote: Looking to connect for Spanish-speaking LibTech community members for a community initiative. Please reach out to sandraordonez [@] openitp [dot] org --- Estoy tratando de conectar con hispanohablantes para un una iniciativa comunitaria. Por favor, ponerse en contacto con sandraordonez [@] openitp [dot] org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community
Ya existe una lista con enfoque en LAC. Aqui los detalles - RedLatAm mailing list redla...@lists.accessnow.org https://lists.accessnow.org/listinfo/redlatam Roberto -- R. Guerra Phone/Cell: +1 202-905-2081 Twitter: twitter.com/netfreedom Email: rgue...@privaterra.org On 2013-03-06, at 2:44 PM, Sandra wrote: Yah esta :) On 3/6/13 2:17 PM, Daniel H. Cabrera wrote: interesado Daniel H. Cabrera Altieri Profesor Titular de Teoría de la Comunicación Coordinador del Grado en Periodismo Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Universidad de Zaragoza Te. (34) 976761000 ext. 4043 c/ Pedro Cerbuna 12 - Zaragoza - 50009 España De: a.nou...@secdev.ca a.nou...@secdev.ca Para: liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu CC: sandraordo...@openitp.org Enviado: Miércoles 6 de marzo de 2013 17:40 Asunto: Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community I'd be interested to join. Saludos, Antoine If there is enough interest, we could create a Spanish-speaking list. I would like that, as a native Spanish speaker myself, with an interest in Liberationtech issues in Spain and Latin America. On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Eduardo Robles Elvira edu...@wadobo.com wrote: Hello there! I don't know how many others spanish-speaking people are there, but I'm a spaniard living in Madrid, we can get in touch =) I'm the lead developer of agoravoting.com, an e-democracy voting tool with support for vote delegation. Regards, -- Eduardo Robles Elvira+34 668 824 393skype: edulix2 http://www.wadobo.comit's not magic, it's wadobo! -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Sandra Ordonez Community Outreach Manager Open Internet Tools Project @OpenITP -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?
Thanks, Bernard for the info on APRS. I am out of date as I don't use it. You are especially right that here in the US it's easy to get a Technician license, which is the entry-level amateur license issued by the FCC. It takes maybe 3 hours of study and a 30-minute test. I'd guess you have something similar in Ireland and most of Europe. Dr. Dey, could we know the country in which you're considering using this approach? That would help us understand the licensing structure there. And also the distances you are talking about. Are the tribal areas 20 miles from reliable cellular service or are they 200 miles out? If you prefer to handle it off-list, it looks like there are a few people who would be interested. I am checking this HamSphere that is mentioned, and I don't see that it's actually using radio anywhere. It appears to simulate an amateur radio station but use the Internet for communication. Not enough time to download and test this today. So in terms of offering even a partial solution, perhaps figuring out whether amateur radio could be provided in some inexpensive way to these out-of-the-way areas would be of interest. Could locals become licensed? Could radio equipment be available at an affordable price? Could itinerant operators do the job on motorcycles? Etc. If so, then more complex messages could certainly be transmitted and there would be a wider window to the world from the remote locations. The original question asked about voice so the fact that I (or others) diverted this to digital modes may be, in fact, just a diversion. The Byzantium Project folks (wi-fi mesh) have some amateur operators among their numbers and might also have opinions on how easy it is to get folks licensed, and also on edge connections of mesh and other networks to amateurs (which is severely limited by law). My take is that even though hams tend to think it's easy to get a license, there are significant (maybe psychological) barriers to entry. Maybe it's just that mobile phones provide so many of the same benefits without the licensure hassle? Some of the people on this list know how wi-fi can be provisioned over fairly long distances using high-gain antennas and mesh software. It seems to me that this might be an interesting way to go about getting real Internet connectivity. I've been on the list a couple of years and heard only sporadic conversation about using long-distance wi-fi as a liberating technology. An example of a regional network that I've known since 2005 is airjaldi.com in northern India, but I know there are others in Africa, South/East Asia and South America. They aren't necessarily formed to liberate people from governmental oppression, but they are providing much-needed connections for their remote communities. (Switching back to my proper email address for this reply) ^ CyberSpark.net -Keeping the flame of free speech and human rights alive online On Mar 6, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb ei8...@ei8fdb.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy AA6AX, Nice to meet you. On 6 Mar 2013, at 21:09, Sky (Jim Schuyler) wrote: Your APRS idea is interesting and I only know it from the positioning side, not from passing any text, so you may want to continue looking into it. I do not know that APRS is currently passing any traffic other than positions, at least as used in the US. I also do not know whether it's used outside the US. Please do remember that APRS and most other amateur digital service are not designed to be reliable which means they may not try again to pass a message and the message may become garbled in transmission. Some do attempt to error-correct, but not most. Not strictly true. APRS clients can be configured to send messages and retry for X attempts. Then it will give up. Seeing as SMS transmission isn't even guaranteed, I think its a pretty good attempt for a system that has been developed totally for free! :) Even most amateur radio digital protocols do not have very robust error-correction, so they're a bit iffy. That is true. Easiest to expand: maybe and maybe not. You have to have a stable of radio operators available both locally and remotely. (Presuming you want information to go from somewhere to somewhere.) If as Dr. Dey requested both sides of the communications were between health workers and their HQ, you could train up all the health workers and possibly even employ a net controller (amateur radio lingo for person who sits in HQ and is in contact with all the field posts) to co-ordinate communications. Without licensing: Although I encourage folks to become amateur radio operators, they do need to be licensed. The government that giveth it can taketh it away at the stroke of a pen. I will skip saying more right now. I agree. I'd go a bit further even and say a restricted licence
[liberationtech] GoodJobs Challenge: Open Data, Jobs, Social Sector
From: Pukar Hamal pcha...@stanford.edu, Sam Spiewak spie...@stanford.edu, Bowen Pan bowen...@gsb.stanford.edu, Elizabeth Woodson ewood...@stanford.edu *GoodJobs* A challenge focused on open data, jobs, and the social sector GoodJobs invites Stanford students to create mobile and web tools that will help young people access social impact jobs. *Who is behind it?* - Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society - White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation - White House Office of Science and Technology Policy - Aspen Institute Impact Careers Initiative *Who can participate?* Any Stanford student who is passionate about social impact! Whether you are a graduate or undergrad, have coding and data skills or social sector expertise, specialize in marketing or product design, or are just interested in participating, you are welcome to register. *How will it work?* Teams of 4-6 students from diverse areas of expertise will form prior to the event and will have the opportunity to review the data sets ahead of time. On April 20th, all the teams will come together at Stanford’s d.school to work intensely for a full day fleshing out their ideas, getting expert mentoring and input, designing a prototype, and planning their pitch. *Judges* - Aditya Agarwal - VP of Engineering, Dropbox - Lucy Bernholz – Visiting Scholar, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society - Somesh Dash – Principal, Institutional Venture Partners - Jonathan Greenblatt – Director, White House Office of Social Innovation - John Lilly – Partner, Greylock Partners - Dustin Moskovitz – Co-founder, Facebook - (more to be announced) *Register* http://www.stanford.edu/group/iriss/pacs-forms/goodjobs.fb http://www.stanford.edu/group/iriss/pacs-forms/goodjobs.fb IMPORTANT: enrollment is limited and we will be selecting the best applicants. Apply today! *FAQs Questions* - I have a team in mind, can we register together? Yes. - Do I need to have a team already? No, individuals can register and be matched with a team. - I'm not a coder but I know a lot about the social sector, can I participate? Yes! *Questions?* - Sam Spiewak, Program Manger, the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society:spie...@stanford.edu - Elizabeth Woodson, Director of Outreach, the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society: ewood...@stanford.edu-- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
[liberationtech] Rich's post on the importance of openness in crypto tech [Subject Was: Cryptography super-group creates]
I want to second Nadim's comment. This is not only terrific, but sums up really important knowledge that often seems to be in short supply. Please post it, so we can point more people to it. Jim Message: 1 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 18:44:03 -0500 From: Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc To: liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Cc: liberationtech liberationt...@mailman.stanford.edu Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography super-group creates unbreakable encryption Message-ID: caoz60qbtaw2vx3ecdmzl2cphnyasklwx6rm7-vbfsv69h54...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Rich, That was the best email I have ever read on this mailing list. Congratulations and thank you. Please post this as a blog post somewhere. NK On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 01:35:53PM -0800, Adam Fisk wrote: At the risk of getting swept up in this by consciously saying something unpopular, I want to put my shoulder against the wheel of the open source process produces more secure software machine. [snip] I've been thinking about your (excellent) comments for several weeks now. And I'm going to argue that open source doesn't necessarily produce more secure software, but it's a prerequisite for any credible attempt. And that in this particular case, there's just no substitute for it. But before I get started, let me pointed out that I'm very much *not* arguing that the contrapositive is true, that open source == chewy goodness automatically. We've all seen open source code that was junk. Lots of it. We've all probably written some, too; I know I have. SNIP -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
