I contacted Celso Salinas-Mireles, an immigration rights activist and coder, about this, and he told me he has an open-source project that tries to do just that, but he needs help in getting it going. So it sounds like this is a great opportunity to jumpstart this badly needed app and get it into the hands of millions of vulnerable people residing in the US ASAP. Talk about a sense of urgency!
He should be joining this list shortly, in the meantime I cc him here so that he can catch up to the initial bits of conversation about the topic. Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes <a...@acm.org> +1 (347) 766-5008 On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes <alps6...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm very close to the immigrant rights community, and I haven't seen > anything like these mobile apps pop up. So far it's been hotlines and > stuff.. > > This reminds me of the comments of a journalist friend of Amy Goodman > on election night: "Welcome to the rest of the world!" and here we go, > apparently we need to adopt and adapt human rights defense mobile apps > from the Iran resistance! ;-) > > I don't know if other people involved in immigrant rights are in this > list, but an app along the lines of what's being talked about here is > well overdue.. I started thinking of adapting the Ushua.. platform to > track ICE once I paid a couple of week-long visits to the Rio Grande > Valley in Texas, seeing ICE-TX State Trooper roadblocks and > cooperation, and even TX National Guard tanks right at the border! > > > Putting 2+2>4 together with the recent thread about doing something > more with liberation tech than email DL, this is an opportunity to > spin off an emergency project to come up with ideas and working > prototypes of mobile apps to track ICE roadblocks and disseminate that > info. I heard this morning from an authoritative source that these > roadblocks are in effect in Austin TX whereby they stop motorists with > the initial " tried-and-true" Arpaio style question: " your license!" > > Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, > > Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes > <a...@acm.org> > +1 (347) 766-5008 > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Lina Srivastava > <l...@linasrivastava.com> wrote: >> This discussion is something that really should be vetted privately with >> immigration groups working on this. There is a lot of fear stoking migrants' >> anxieties right now, and misinformation swirling about what's happening. I >> suggest connecting with United We Dream, Make the Road NY, or DRUM, for >> example, before going too far down the road with thoughts of design or >> development. >> >> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Yosem Companys <ycompa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> From: Nithin Coca <privateemail2...@progressiveexchange.org> >>> >>> This is one case where we should look abroad for examples, as these types >>> of situations are not abnormal globally. >>> >>> I know that in Iran, there is a tool that is used for avoiding morality >>> police - something that should be easily adaptable to this case (and I >>> believe is open source) >>> >>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gerd.app.gershad >>> >>> https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2016/02/gershad-app/ >>> >>>> From: Craig A. Bowman <privateemail253...@progressiveexchange.org >>>> >>>> A few of us are also talking about using the ushahidi >>>> (https://www.ushahidi.com) platform to do this. In conversations with them >>>> now about how it might work best. >>>> >>>> 11, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Ms. Andrea Morales >>>> < >>>> >>>> privateemail248...@progressiveexchange.org<mailto:privateemail248...@progressiveexchange.org>> >>>> wrote: >>>> > One easy way >>>> of doing this would be to use Waze and add "police" check >>>> > points >>>> but add "ICE" in the description of the checkpoint itself. >>>> > >>>> > > On >>>> Feb 11, 2017, at 9:11 AM, Mr. Dan Sisken >>>> <privateemail191...@progressiveexchange.org> wrote: >>>> > > >>>> > > An idea based on this week's >>>> news about increasingly aggressive ICE >>>> > actions targeting immigrant >>>> communities. >>>> > > >>>> > > Does anyone know of any examples of a mobile, >>>> crowd-sourced app that >>>> > could be used to pinpoint ICE checkpoints. >>>> Such an app could be used to >>>> > avoid ICE and for spontaneous >>>> demonstrations. >>>> > > >>>> > > I don't have any connection to activists; >>>> just putting the idea out >>>> > there. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. 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