[liberationtech] Research project: encryption for personal use

From: Shannon M. Oltmann Hello everyone! I am investigating people's use of (hard drive or email) encryption for day-to-day personal use (not just professional purposes), to learn more about how we conceptualize privacy. I want to ground discussions of privacy in actual

[liberationtech] Fwd: Hacking for Defense Update: Brownbags, Infosessions, & New Problem Topics

From: Kimberly Diane Chang MS 297 Hacking for Defense Thank you for expressing interest in Hacking for Defense - we are excited to announce several opportunities to learn more about the class as well as additions to the problem list. *TLDR:* - Starting next week, we

[liberationtech] Event (2/17) New Alliances in Cybersecurity, Human Rights & Internet Governance

From: Sarina Beges The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law together with the Centre for International Governance Innovation are proud to present a special workshop on *Wednesday, Feb. 17 *entitled, “New Alliances in Cybersecurity, Human Rights & Internet

[liberationtech] APPLY NOW: Stanford CDDRL's Undergraduate Honors Program

From: Sarina Beges Calling all Stanford Juniors interested in writing an honor’s thesis with Stanford CDDRL Undergraduate Honors Program. The deadline to apply is Friday, February 12th. ___ liberation-techology mailing list

[liberationtech] Facebook Tech Talk (1/28): Data Science at Internet.org

From: Vicki Niu On Thursday, CS+Social Good is hosting Facebook's Internet.org data analytics team to chat about their work connecting two-thirds of the world to Internet, the challenges of working on a fast-iterating and large-scale project, and how it's driven by data

[liberationtech] TOMORROW at Stanford: National Intelligence Council's Global Trends Report Student Focus Group

From: Elena Cryst The National Intelligence Council (NIC) is hosting a conference on *Governance Trends in Advanced Industrial Powers and their Strategic Impact* at Stanford University TOMORROW, January 27, 2016, and would like to invite students to a discussion on their

[liberationtech] Thu Jan 28 at Stanford -- Eric Rozier: Data Integrity Based Attacks in the New Era of Adversarial, Data Science and Engineering

From: David Wu Data Integrity Based Attacks in the New Era of Adversarial Data Science and Engineering Eric Rozier Thursday, January 28, 2016 Talk at 4:15pm Gates 498

[liberationtech] Fwd: [CS+Social Good] CS+Social Good Events & Opportunities!

From: CS+Social Good Dinner with Facebook's Internet.org, fully funded summer fellowships, and more! View this email in your browser Hi friends - It’s a beautiful day outside

[liberationtech] MS 297: Hacking for Defense (New Course Spring 2016)

From: Kimberly Diane Chang *MS 297 - Hacking for Defense * Solving National Security Issues with the Lean Launchpad Interested in Entrepreneurship? Innovating at speed? Helping to make the world a better place? Working closely with members of the military and government to

[liberationtech] Thursday at 6:30pm - Hear from low-wage workers organizing in tech! With food

From: Emma Hartung Interested in labor issues? Want to get involved in support of workers on campus and in the Bay? Come to Student And Labor Alliance (SALA)'s worker-student discussion at the El Centro lounge this Thursday, January 21st at 6:30pm. Jane Martin, an

[liberationtech] CS+SG Summer Fellowship: spend your dream summer doing good anywhere in the world! [APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN]

From: Lawrence Murata We are kicking off the CS+Social Good Summer Fellowship! Through the fellowship, students will receive funding and support to design their own summer experience working with an organization to use tech to address social issues, abroad or in the US.

[liberationtech] Privacy, Safety, Security & Healthcare --> Seeking Your Scholarship.....

From: Robert Mathews *Springer [Berlin-Heidelberg]* takes great pleasure in announcing that it’s peer-reviewed Health & Technology Journal intends to publish a Special Issue on a subject of vital significance; the topic of “Privacy,” especially as it pertains to Healthcare.

[liberationtech] UNESCO Call for Proposals - World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development 2017

UNESCO is inviting written proposals from academic and research institutions for producing the 2017 report in the series /World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development/. Information on the call for proposals is available online <

[liberationtech] Stanford Amateur Radio Club Meeting/Talk on FreeDV & Codec2 Open Source Digital Voice, Algoram's Katena Handheld Software-Defined Radio

From: Sawson -KG6NUB Invited Speaker, Bruce Perens (K6BP), CEO of Algoram and Legal Engineering Topic: FreeDV and Codec2 Open Source Digital Voice, Algoram's Katena Handheld

[liberationtech] Summer Fellowship Funding to use Science and Technology for the Benefit of Society

From: Claudia Elizabeth Brunner Haas Center fellowships provide an opportunity for continuing Stanford undergraduates and graduating seniors/co-term students to design and implement summer service projects with measurable outcomes that help communities take a creative

[liberationtech] Hackerspaces - Grant Program

From: hellekin Written in August 2015 after CCCamp15, introduced briefly at the Hackbases session during 32C3, the Hackerspaces Grant Program is a project and proposal to the community. In a nutshell, this program would propose 4 grants: 1. Bootstrap Grant Purpose:

[liberationtech] 2016 Summer Internship Program, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Application Deadline Feb. 12

From: Rebecca Tabasky The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is now accepting applications for our summer 2016 internship program*. ** * Information about the summer program and links to the application procedures can be found below and at

[liberationtech] Stanford will pay you to do good in the world!

From: Priscila Garcia Cc: Valerie Y Chow , Hilary Douglas < hila...@stanford.edu> *What are you doing this summer?* *Stanford will pay you to do good in the world.* Various types of public service fellowships are available as part of the

[liberationtech] Hackademia Summer School: Empirical Studies in Computing Cultures

From: Jennifer Granick http://www.leuphana.de/en/research-centers/cdc/digital-cultures-research-lab/events/summer-school-2016.html *Call For Participants* *Hackademia: empirical studies in computing cultures * *A Digital Cultures Research Lab (DCRL) Summer School *

[liberationtech] Build Bitcoin-powered Apps in CS251P!

From: Nadav Hollander Cc: roblerang...@lists.stanford.edu ~Forward Widely~ *Interested in Bitcoin / Crypto Currencies? Get hands-on experience in CS251P* By popular demand, Dan Boneh and Balaji Srinivasan -- Board Partner at a16z and CEO of 21 Inc. --

[liberationtech] 2-unit Human Rights course at Stanford

From: Jackie Fielder Check out this 2-unit Human Rights course with Professor David Palumbo-Liu. There are no written assignments or exams. Your grade will be based solely on your doing the assigned reading and the quality of your contributions to the website.

[liberationtech] Nominations for IGF 2016 MAG

From: Ginger Paque The call for nominations for the IGF 2016 MAG has been posted on the IGF website: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/magabout/mag-renewal-announcement The deadline for submission nominations through the nomination form

Re: [liberationtech] Resilient Democracy project

You should look at Karl Weick's work on resilient systems. Here is an example: http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Unexpected-Resilient-Performance-Uncertainty/dp/0787996491/ On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Lorelei Kelly wrote: > Dear list friends, > > I'm starting a project

[liberationtech] Project for non-profit on tracking corporate abuse

From: Mehran Sahami Cc: Jeffrey Ullman The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has a project to visualize/analyze data related to allegations of corporate abuse and company responses. Professor Jeff Ullman (CC’ed) has agreed to supervise an

[liberationtech] Mobile Health International Projects Team

From: Catherine Wong I hope you had a wonderful break, and I wanted to encourage you to apply to an *Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) * team I'm leading with Nick Hershey . Last year, while building healthcare software

[liberationtech] Surveillance Law Course

From: David Farber While the course is over the lectures are available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQozwgRaSs_Kv_XicDXZ51XsbYMxpctbJ -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated:

[liberationtech] Stanford course: Surveillance Law

*From:* Richard Forno FYI, my Stanford CIS colleague (a securitylegalgeek rockstar) is offering a 6-week online course on surveillance law. Well worth checking out, if you're able and/or interested! -- rick Surveillance Law Learn how police and intelligence agencies

[liberationtech] DISREGARD - Re: Stanford course: Surveillance Law

From: Richard Forno Ooops, my error. This was for LAST year. I saw "January" and thought it was for 2016. Please pardon the confusion! -- It's better to burn out than fade away. > On Jan 2, 2016, at 12:58 PM, Richard Forno wrote: > > FYI, my

[liberationtech] Tech/Data in aid of grassroots transparency and accountability?

From: Veeraraghavan, Rajesh Dear all, We are currently working on a research project that seeks to broaden the discourse of the open-data and civic tech movements. We would love to chat with you and further articulate our project and get your thoughts if this

[liberationtech] Stanford Crowd Research Winter Program: Calling aspiring researchers, hackers, designers, thinkers

** Calling aspiring researchers, hackers, designers, thinkers for the Stanford Crowd Research Winter Program** After huge success in the Spring and Summer sessions, researchers from Stanford University are inviting aspiring researchers to join them in an effort to form the largest crowdsourcing

[liberationtech] Cyber Initiative seminar TOMORROW 12/7: Jaron Lanier, Who Owns Your Data?

From: Allison Paige Berke Hi all, Our last seminar of the quarter is *December 7th*, from *4-5pm*, in the *Mackenzie Room* on the 3rd floor of the Huang Engineering Center. Join Cyber Initiative co-Director Professor Dan Boneh and *author, researcher, and philosopher

[liberationtech] At Stanford: Double Exposure: Russia's Secret Police under the Last Tsars

Double Exposure: Russia's Secret Police under the Last Tsars October 29, 2015 – March 12, 2016 See details below for exact dates and times. Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion, located next to Hoover Tower Map Sponsored by: Hoover Institution Archives This exhibition is based on one of

[liberationtech] Tomorrow, Friday, December 4 -- Arvind Narayanan: Securing Bitcoin wallets via threshold signatures

From: David Wu Securing Bitcoin wallets via threshold signatures Arvind Narayanan Friday, December 4, 2015 Talk at 4:15pm Gates 463 Abstract: The Bitcoin ecosystem has suffered

[liberationtech] Real-World Cryptography 2016 on Jan. 6-8 at Stanford University

From: Dan Boneh Friends, The next real-world crypto conference will be held at Stanford on Jan. 6-8. The program is now available at: http://www.realworldcrypto.com/rwc2016/program It covers the latest topics in the real-world use of cryptography. The venue

[liberationtech] Applied Cybersecurity: Google Hacking

Applied Cybersecurity is a new Stanford group focused on teaching students practical skills in exploiting and protecting systems. We will be holding weekly interactive sessions throughout the year that demonstrate how to perform security exploits such as password cracking and packet sniffing,

[liberationtech] REMINDER: GNI event at Stanford Law School

From: Vivek S. Stanford Law School and Global Network Initiative are organizing an event on free expression and digital privacy that would be of interest to many people in this group. Please see below for details. Warm regards, S. Vivek = Program on Liberation

[liberationtech] Liberationtech Seminar: Measuring Internet Penetration @ Scale: Problems and solutions when measuring internet connectivity in developing countries

Measuring Internet Penetration @ Scale: Problems and solutions when measuring internet connectivity in developing countries Lauren Bachan , Facebook Today, November 12, 2015 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Wallenberg Hall 450 Serra Mall, Building 160 Stanford, CA 94305-2055 FSI Contact: Alice Carter

[liberationtech] Post-Doc and Project Scientist Openings - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University

From: Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol *Post-Doc and Project Scientist Openings – Personalized Privacy Assistant for the Internet of Things* *School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University* November 2015 The *School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University* has

[liberationtech] College Freedom Forum at Stanford on 11/16

From: Ellen Eoff The Human Rights Foundation invites you to join the first College Freedom Forum at Stanford on *Monday, November 16* from 6:30 - 8:30 PM. You can RSVP on Facebook by clicking at https://www.facebook.com/events/1505055436454781/ or by replying to this email to let

[liberationtech] Stanford Talk: Tech Adoption in African Agriculture, Nov. 5

From: Christian Ollano Dear LibTech Community, This event might be of interest: *Technology Adoption in African Agriculture* *featuring:* *Craig McIntosh* Professor, UC San Diego Nov. 5, 2015 3:30-5:00 PM Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall, Stanford

[liberationtech] Tuesday, November 3 -- Roxana Geambasu: Privacy in a Data-Driven World

From: David Wu Privacy in a Data-Driven World Roxana Geambasu Tuesday, November 3, 2015 Talk at 4:15pm Gates 463 Abstract: The concept of personal privacy as a precious

[liberationtech] Next Phase of Stanford's Encryption Initiative

Dear Colleagues, As you are all aware, information security remains a shared concern and plays an important part in protecting university assets and personal privacy. To strengthen this protection, in January 2014 the university established a requirement to verifiably encrypt all employee

[liberationtech] In Search of Sustainable Democracy: Reflections on Three Decades of Research

Larry Diamond In Search of Sustainable Democracy: Reflections on Three Decades of Research DATE Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 12:00 pm LOCATION CISAC Central Conference Room, Second Floor, Encina Hall SPONSORED BY Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law ABSTRACT This seminar

[liberationtech] Setting up an experimental testbed for wireless mesh network

From: Sailash Moirangthem I am a student studying Digital Communications in India. I am trying to set up a wireless mesh network covering the whole campus of our college. I have currently 10 routers (TPLINK WN1043ND) updated with openwrt. I have been trying to run the

[liberationtech] Fwd: Research on the Democratic Divide Online? Do we need it to prompt better solutions?

From: Steven Clift Hey all, while this is pretty raw, I am looking for feedback on whether we need more/better research to frame what needs to be done to bridge what I call the "democratic data divide online." See: http://po.st/communitydatasurgeLists This is my submission

[liberationtech] CfP: NetHealth 2016: Last date of submission 31st Oct. 2015

From: Pushpendra Singh NetHealth Workshop 2016 focuses to bring together leading clinicians, MedTech stalwarts, mobile health pioneers, engineers, designers and entrepreneurs to a common platform to network and build a strong healthcare innovation platform. The event

[liberationtech] Stanford FSI | CDDRL - Democracy Rebooted: The Future of Technology in Elections

Democracy Rebooted: The Future of Technology in Elections Lecture Speaker(s) President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Republic of Estonia Date and Time September 24, 2015 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM AvailabilityRSVP RSVP required by 5PM September 24.

[liberationtech] Stanford Liberation Technology Seminar Series - Fall 2015

From: Christian Ollano *Dear Stanford Community,* Welcome back to the academic year! We have a great line-up of speakers scheduled for this fall quarter. Take a look here or below to see who

Re: [liberationtech] Anyone know of a free payment/donation app for non-profits?

PayPal is especially awful for non-profits. Sometimes they flag donations as fraudulent, causing the organization to lose momentum on campaigns, as happened to Diaspora: http://www.alphr.com/news/370624/diaspora-accuses-paypal-of-blocking-donations Diaspora's story had a somewhat happy ending,

[liberationtech] At Stanford, Tuesday, June 16 -- Joseph Poon: Bitcoin Lightning Network

From: David Wu d...@cs.stanford.edu To: Stanford Security Seminar at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/security-seminar The Bitcoin Lightning Network Joseph Poon Tuesday, June 16, 2015 Talk at 4:15pm

[liberationtech] TODAY at Stanford: Design Thinking, Social Change, Governance Revolution in India

Design Thinking, Social Change and Governance Revolution in India Vivek Srinivasan, Academic Research Program Manager, Program on Liberation Technology June 4, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Open to Stanford faculty, students, staff, and visiting scholars. Ground Floor Conference Rm E008 Encina

[liberationtech] Forum today (6/1, 12:15-12:55pm in 460-126): Honors and M.S. Project presentations

From: Todd Davies dav...@stanford.edu To: symsys-eve...@lists.stanford.edu at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/symsys-events *Symbolic Systems Forum http:///viewing/htmldocument/13675*presents *Honors and M.S. Project Presentations* by Harry Simon (Senior Honors Student) and Chan,

[liberationtech] Engineering + social impact? Attend ESW's Spring Showcase

From: Devika Patel devi...@stanford.edu *Come see ESW's Spring Showcase!* See what we've been up to! Food will be provided :) Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) is a national, non-profit service organization that aims to affect social change by addressing the challenges of global

[liberationtech] Snowden at Stanford

Symbolic Systems Distinguished Speaker Since 1991, the Symbolic Systems Program has annually hosted special lectures by speakers who have made distinguished contributions to the theory or applications of symbolic systems. This year's Distinguished Speaker is... Edward Snowden Lecture event: The

[liberationtech] Pax Technica: politics privacy of IoT

From: Philip N. Howard pnhow...@uw.edu My new book is out and it's called Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up. I wrote with an academic press, but it is crafted for a wide audience because I'm hoping to reach a lot of people with some ideas for how to make the

[liberationtech] Tomorrow: Machines of Loving Grace: John Markoff (New York Times) talk, 5/7 11am

John Markoff on Machines of Loving Grace The CITRIS People and Robots Initiative Presents: A Distinguished Lecture by John Markoff of the New York Times Machines of Loving Grace Tomorrow: Thursday, May 7, 2015 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (PDT) Banatao Auditorium, CITRIS, UC Berkeley

[liberationtech] FSI | CDDRL | Program on Liberation Technology - Journalism from below in the Digital Age with P. Sainath

Journalism from below in the Digital Age with P. Sainath Date and Time May 5, 2015 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Location 7:00 PM | Tuesday, May 5, 2015 Donald Kennedy Commons Escondido Village Comstock Circle, Stanford Universitysai The People's Archive of Rural India combines text, audio, video, and

[liberationtech] Supporting Stanford Student- Staff-Led Initiatives for Earthquake Relief in Nepal: A Digest

From: Lina Vadlamani lina...@stanford.edu Thank you all for your incredible work so far. The #StanfordForNepal campaign is working hard to coordinate existing efforts on campus and bring broader awareness to these initiatives. We have included in this email a digest of a few student- and

[liberationtech] Stanford For Nepal: Our Coordinated Campus Plan of Action to Support Nepal

From: Sanskriti Co-chairs sanskriticocha...@gmail.com Thank you all for expressing your support of the ongoing relief efforts in Nepal. As you might know, Sanskriti has been working hard with Nepali students and staff on campus, SAL, and University administration to coordinate campus efforts

[liberationtech] #StanfordForNepal Campaign: Stanford's Support for Relief Efforts in Nepal

From: Sanskriti Chair Kunal Sangani at ksang...@stanford.edu As you may know, this past Saturday, Nepal experienced a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. The earthquake and its several aftershocks have sent the death toll in Nepal above 5,000 and left many more thousands homeless and in need of medical

[liberationtech] Technology: Democracy's Last Frontier? A Public Lecture by Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard

Technology: Democracy's Last Frontier? A Public Lecture by Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University Thursday, May 7, 2015 4:00 pm Hewlett Teaching Center Room 102 Map Sponsored by: Science, Technology

[liberationtech] A way to Help to Earthquake Victims in Nepal

From: Yvette Zepeda yvet...@stanford.edu An East Palo Alto community member has a connection to the Nepalese community that endured the recent quake. Below is a list of items they are collecting to send back to Nepal. If you can help or have questions, please contact Richa Sharma at

[liberationtech] 4/27 5/6 SAID Events with Distinguished Visitor John Githongo Liberationtech Professor Larry Diamond

From: Jim Murray jim.mur...@stanford.edu Please join the Stanford Association for International Development (SAID) for our Spring Quarter Speaker Series with 2015 Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor John Githongo in partnership with the Haas Center for Public Service and the Center for

[liberationtech] Looking for: ICT/telecom expertise in country in Nepal

From: Nick Ashton-Hart nash...@consensus.pro via bestb...@lists.bestbits.net If you, or someone you know, has hands-on ICTs and especially telecom infrastructure experience and is presently in Nepal can you let me know offlist? I'm trying to help emergency teams in country gain access to

Re: [liberationtech] Ghostery, NoScript.. add-ons frequently phone home

This thread has turned belligerent, so it has been closed. Please feel free to continue discussing other subjects of interest. Thanks, Yosem One of the moderators On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Al Billings alb...@openbuddha.com wrote: I'm not sure why you're asking us for the list instead of

[liberationtech] Curious about tech in Cuba?

From: Stephanie Maria Nevel sne...@stanford.edu Cuba + Silicon Valley Connect Curious about Cuba? Meet Eliecer Avila - engineering student at Universidad de la Habana and founder of SOMOS+, a network of Cubans working to build a modern, prosperous, and free country. Friday 4.24.15 at 1 pm in

[liberationtech] Surveillance Studies Book Prize 2015

From: David Murakami Wood d...@queensu.ca We are now compiling the list of books eligible for the 2015 Surveillance Studies Book Prize. Books that are eligible must be: Primarily concerned with surveillance Published in the calendar year 2014 Monographs, not edited collections Original works in

[liberationtech] Patrick Meier on Digital Humanitarians at Today's Stanford Liberationtech Seminar

From: Kathleen Barcos kbar...@stanford.edu Digital Humanitarians Patrick Meier, Director of Social Innovation at QCRI March 12, 2015 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM School of Education, Room 128 Abstract The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response

[liberationtech] Civic Media Project

From: Eric Gordon eric_gor...@emerson.edu For the last few years, I, along with my co-editor Paul Mihailidis, have been working on a book project about the range and diversity of civic media examples. What started as a modest collection of chapters, has turned into a two-part behemoth: one

[liberationtech] [SPAM:###] NEW BOOK: Schneier's Data and Goliath

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier You are under surveillance right now. Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who’s with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you’re

[liberationtech] Minorities privacy/surveillance

From: Rebecca Slayton rs...@cornell.edu One of my students would like to do a term paper on minority attitudes towards privacy/surveillance, but we are finding very little literature on this (maybe two articles that address the issue directly). His focus is on African Americans and U.S.

[liberationtech] Stanford Liberationtech Seminar for Feb 26: Michael Callen on ICT4D to Combat Polio in Pakistan

From: Kathleen Barcos kbar...@stanford.edu * Using Behavioral Economics and Information Communication Technology to Combat Polio in Pakistan * *Speakers* Michael Callen, Assistant Professor, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School *February 26, 2015 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM* * NOTE

[liberationtech] Surveillance in Africa?

From: Hille Koskela hille.kosk...@utu.fi Has anybody done research on surveillance in Africa (South of Sahara)? I’m on my way to Dar es Salaam for a month and would be grateful of 1. Any reading tips considering surveillance in the former British colonies and South Africa – this could be your

[liberationtech] At Stanford on Friday, Feb. 20 -- Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum Cryptoeconomic Mechanisms Security

From: David Wu d...@cs.stanford.edu via security-semi...@lists.stanford.edu at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/security-seminar Introduction to Ethereum, and Cryptoeconomic Mechanisms and Security Vitalik Buterin

[liberationtech] A “calculus” for Open Data — Medium

Interesting post by Stanford FSI's David Sangokoya and his colleague at NYU that applies a theory of the calculus of voting to help data providers embrace open data: https://medium.com/@sahuguet/p-b-d-c-1218ee894400 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of

[liberationtech] Lessons in Dissent: Film Screening at Stanford FSI | CDDRL

Film Screening: Lessons in Dissent Speaker: Matthew Torne Date and Time: February 17, 2015 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Availability: Open to the public. No RSVP required. Location: William R Hewlett Teaching Center, Room 201, 370 Serra Mall Watch the Trailer: http://lessonsindissentmovie.com/. Synopsis

[liberationtech] At Stanford on Feb 24: Tech Privacy Roundtable

From: Paula Cristina Salazar psala...@stanford.edu Stanford’s Public Policy Program is pleased to announce its second quarterly Science and Technology Policy Roundtable titled Technology and Privacy: How can policy encourage innovation while preserving privacy rights? on Tuesday, February 24.

[liberationtech] At Stanford Tonight: Cybersec Symposium

INVENTING THE FUTURE: CYBERSECURITY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM Inventing the future: Cybersecurity research and education symposium [image: Print view] https://engineering.stanford.edu/print/node/38400A SYMPOSIUM HOSTED BY STANFORD UNIVERSITY AND THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND

[liberationtech] Omidyar Network TOR on Open Data Impact

From: Laura Bacon lba...@omidyar.com Terms of Reference #1: Building a Case Study Repository of Open Data Impact (Part 1 of the Multi-Year Research Project on Open Data: Demand, Use, Impact) Thematic Area: Governance and Citizen Engagement, Open Data Scope of Project:

[liberationtech] Stanford Will Help You Install Solar Panels on Low-Usage Households

From: Devika Patel devi...@stanford.edu Interested in installing solar panels on local schools, nonprofits and low-usage households? *Become a SunWork Volunteer!* ​ *Engineers for a Sustainable World* is collaborating with the local non-profit *SunWork* to give students the opportunity to gain

[liberationtech] The Good, Bad, Ugly of Internet * 4:15PM, Wed February 11, 2015 in Gates B03 at Stanford

From: Dennis Allison alli...@stanford.edu alli...@stanford.edu Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium 4:15PM, Wednesday, February 11, 2015 NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building Room B3 http://ee380.stanford.edu Border Gateway Protocol: the Good, Bad, and Ugly of Internet Routing

[liberationtech] Join Stanford's crowdsourced crowdsourcing research team

From: Rajan Vaish vaish.ra...@gmail.com ** Calling aspiring researchers ** Researchers from Stanford University are inviting aspiring researchers to join them in an effort to form the largest crowdsourcing research project ever. The accepted participants will get a chance to design and develop

[liberationtech] Feb. 9 at Stanford -- Ben Livshits: PrePose: Security and Privacy for Gesture-Based Programming

From: David Wu d...@cs.stanford.edu PrePose: Security and Privacy for Gesture-Based Programming Ben Livshits Monday, February 9, 2015 Talk at 4:15pm Gates 463 Abstract: With the rise of sensors such as

[liberationtech] Remembering Gaetano Borriello

via Yaw Anokwa yano...@gmail.com With enormous sadness, we announce that our dear friend, colleague, and teacher Gaetano Borriello (http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~gaetano), the Jerre D. Noe Professor of Computer Science Engineering, passed away this morning at his home, following a long fight

[liberationtech] Teach privacy at Mozilla?

From: Rhona Mahony rmah...@stanford.edu via cryptopa...@lists.stanford.edu Hey, the Privacy Team at Mozilla would like our help with a CryptoParty! They would like it on a weekday, from 5 pm to 7 pm -or- 6 pm to 8 pm. I'd be happy to drive fellow teachers from Palo Alto and environs up to

[liberationtech] UC Berkeley ICT4D Talk by Patrick Meier, Fri Feb 13 at 2PM

From: Tapan Parikh par...@berkeley.edu Please join us for a talk by Patrick Meier, author of the book Digital Humanitarians and noted expert on crowd-sourcing and international development, on Friday February 13 from 2-3PM in South Hall 210. Digital Humanitarians Abstract: The overflow of

Re: [liberationtech] Liberation Technology Seminar Series- Jan 29- Hassanpour

folks within the Ushahidi and iHub community. Will this be a webinar or is this a session that will be recorded and uploaded online? Angela Oduor Lungati ang...@ushahidi.com Ushahidi Inc http://ushahidi.com. On Jan 29, 2015, at 4:33 AM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu wrote: From

[liberationtech] Liberation Technology Seminar Series- Jan 29- Hassanpour

From: Kathleen Barcos kbar...@stanford.edu *Will the Revolution be Tweeted? * *Information Communication Technology and Conflict * *Speaker* *Navid Hassanpour,* Postdoctoral Research Associate, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG) Thursday, January 29, 2015 4:15 PM - 5:30

[liberationtech] Stanford Liberationtech Seminar: Will revolution be tweeted? - Jan 29

From: Kathleen Barcos kbar...@stanford.edu The Center on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law presents * The Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series * *Will the Revolution be Tweeted? Information Communication Technology and Conflict * *Speaker* *Navid Hassanpour,* Postdoctoral

[liberationtech] Computational Epidemiology: The role of big data and pervasive * 4:15PM, Wed January 21, 2015 in Gates B03

Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium 4:15PM, Wednesday, January 21, 2015 NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building Room B3 http://ee380.stanford.edu Computational Epidemiology: The role of big data and pervasive informatics Madhav Marathe Network Dynamics and Simulation Science

[liberationtech] UC Berkeley CITRIS Research Exchange for the Spring is now online

If you are in the area, please check out the great seminar series from our friends at UC Berkeley. For those outside the area, you can always watch the YouTube video after the event. Best, Yosem -- Forwarded message -- From: Yvette Subramanian yvet...@berkeley.edu Date: Tue, Jan

[liberationtech] SARTIAN: A webplatform for RTI enthusiasts from South Asia

From: Suchismita Goswami suchism...@humanrightsinitiative.org Greetings from CHRI and SARTIAN! South Asia Right to Information Advocates Network - SARTIAN is a webplatform functioning in the South Asian region for some time now and I am sure many of you are aware and even member of this web

[liberationtech] $4.5 Million Challenge to Accelerate Digital Health Innovation

From: Yaw Anokwa yano...@gmail.com via cha...@change.washington.edu at http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change The Aetna Foundation is calling on organizations to leverage technology to make an impact on health outcomes in vulnerable communities. The Foundation today announced

[liberationtech] Cuba: 5% Internet penetration

From: Claro Noda n...@complexperiments.net Initiating new efforts to increase Cubans’ access to communications and their ability to communicate freely- Cuba has an internet penetration of about five percent—one of the lowest rates in the world. The cost of telecommunications in Cuba is

[liberationtech] UC Berkeley Seminar: Social Media and the Political Right in India: An analysis of Narendra Modi's Tweeting

FRIDAY AFTERNOON SEMINAR ON INFORMATION ACCESS. South Hall 107, Fridays 3-5 pm http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-ia/f14/schedule.html Open to the public. Everyone interested is welcome! Dec 19: Special session co-sponsored with the Institute for South Asian Studies. Joyojeet Pal,

[liberationtech] UC Berkeley iSchool: Social Media Political Right in India: An Analysis of Narendra Modi's Tweeting

UC Berkeley iSchool Information Access Seminar SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE POLITICAL RIGHT IN INDIA: AN ANALYSIS OF NARENDRA MODI'S TWEETING Joyojeet Pal, School of Information, University of Michigan Friday, December 19, 2014, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm 107 South Hall, UC Berkeley Abstract: Indian Prime

[liberationtech] Stanford Event: US State Department lunch speaker -- the Collaboratory -- diplomacy via innovative education technology

From: Jim Murray jim.mur...@stanford.edu Guest Speaker: Paul Kruchoski, Policy Advisor and Deputy Director of the Collaboratory at the U.S. Department of State Friday, December 5, 2014 - 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm (lunch provided for registered attendees) Haas Center for Public Service, Donald Kennedy

[liberationtech] Stanford, Mon, Dec. 1 -- Joseph Bonneau: Bitcoin as a source of verifiable public randomness (working paper)

From: Joe Zimmerman j...@cs.stanford.edu Bitcoin as a source of verifiable public randomness (working paper) Joseph Bonneau Monday, December 1, 2014 Talk at 4:15pm Gates 463A

[liberationtech] Stanford Documentary screening: Crowdsourced Constitution in Iceland

From: Tanja Aitamurto tanja.aitamu...@gmail.com Blueberry Soup: A documentary about the crowdsourced constitution in Iceland. Wednesday, December 3, 6:30 pm Packard 101 Stanford University The screening will be followed by QA with the director, Eileen Jerrett. Open to the Public. Iceland,

[liberationtech] Stanford: Animal-Welfare Activism via Virtual Reality

From: Samantha Neuber sneu...@stanford.edu David Kay dka...@stanford.edu Interested in virtual reality or animal welfare? Stop by White Plaza between 10 am and 3 pm this Thursday, November 20th to experience an innovative new virtual reality experience: I, Chicken. Using VR equipment,

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