My colleague and I are currently in Tunisia working with a number of geeks and citizen journalists in the south of Tunisia.
We are checking our schedule to see if we can make it, but I'm also wondering whether you have any plan to provide support to Tunisians from the south to make it to the event? Thanks! Brian On Oct 13, 2012 9:02 PM, "Dragana Kaurin" <[email protected]> wrote: > OpenITP and ISC's Circumvention Tech Summit > Tunis, Tunisia > November 26-28, 2012 > > After the success of the Circumvention Tech Summit in Rio de Janeiro last > June, the value of gathering together those working on anti-censorship and > anti-surveillance tools has become clear. Therefore, we are pleased to > announce that OpenITP and the Information Security Coalition (ISC) will be > hosting a second summit on November 26-28 in Tunis, Tunisia. This summit > will be unique, as we are bringing together both developers working on > Internet Freedom tools and Syrian activists who are using these tools in > their efforts to effect change in Syria. Increasing dialog between > developers and users will help projects identify how they can best serve > the real and immediate needs of the Syrian people, as well as other at-risk > populations. Ultimately, our goal is to promote collaboration among > technical projects that implement and preserve the principles of a free and > open Internet. We aim to help attendees increase access to users and > testers, eliminate duplicative effort, increase > inter-project infrastructure, and promulgate open standards and best > practices. > > We encourage you to attend if you're interested in discovering what others > in this field are doing, both in the Middle East/North Africa region and > internationally. Attendees will share best practices from their projects, > learn about new and related projects, and receive direct feedback from > Syrian activists using their tools. We're excited to continue supporting > the work of tool developers, and we anticipate this event helping to > advance your project, as high-bandwidth cross-project discovery and > communication are best done in person. > > Please contact us if you would like to attend by November 1st, 2012. > Travel subsidies of varying amounts are available on a case-by-case basis > for members of the circumvention tech community. Note that our travel > budget is limited, so we urge attendees who have their own financial means > to fund their attendance directly so that others with fewer options may > still be able to attend. We look forward to seeing you all in Tunis! > > Please RSVP to [email protected] and tell us what you plan to work on, > and what kind of projects and people you hope to meet. > > Regards, > > OpenITP & the ISC > > > > -- > Dragana Kaurin > Program Associate > OpenITP > [email protected] > (937) 626 3617 > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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