[liberationtech] As Internet Freedom Defender, US Keen on Protecting IP Rights
http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/03/08/us-as-defender-of-internet-freedom-keen-on-protecting-ip-rights/ http://www.ip-watch.org/ US As Defender Of Internet Freedom, Keen On Protecting IP Rights By Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch on 08/03/2013 @ 12:47 am For the third year in a row, the United States mission to the United Nations in Geneva brought together human rights activists from different parts of the world in an effort to promote internet freedom. At a press briefing, a senior US State Department official described efforts to address challenges to freedom on the internet, and said that intellectual property in the context of internet is a complicated issue. The Internet Freedom Fellows program [1], whose first round dates back to 2011, is organising events in Geneva, Washington DC, and Stanford University (California), from 4-15 March. The aim of the programme is to bring “human rights activists from across the globe to Geneva, Washington, and Silicon Valley to meet with fellow activists, U.S. and international government leaders, and members of civil society and the private sector engaged in technology and human rights.,” according to the US mission website. On 7 March, Alec Ross, senior advisor on innovation to the US Secretary of State, was at a press briefing on securing human rights online. “Internet freedom has become a real pillar of US foreign policy priorities,” he said. Universal rights, freedom of expression, freedom of association and assembly, and a free press should be exercised on the internet, he said, adding that unfortunately, over the years “internet has become an environment not merely competitive but increasingly conflict ridden.” “Too many governments around the world view the empowerment of citizens as coming at their own expense and they fear the loss of control which comes with connectivity,” Ross said. “In the face of this, the US stands resolute in favour of an open internet and protecting the freedoms of expression association and assembly on line as well as off line,” he added. Asked about what the US was doing to increase freedom on the internet, Ross said that over the last four years, about US$100 million was spent developing technologies to allow people to exercise their universal rights. Most of about a dozen projects are classified except for two, he said. One of the projects is the Commotion (Wireless) programme, he said. This has been dubbed by as the “internet in a suitcase,” and is a project run by the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation. “It is a response to countries as Iran and Egypt, who in the face of dissent literally turned down or slowed down the internet and global networks,” he said. The Commotion Wireless [2] is a technology is described as “an open source ‘device-as-infrastructure’ distributed communications platform that integrates users’ existing cell phones, WiFi-enabled computers, and other WiFi-capable personal devices to create a metro-scale peer-to-peer (mesh) communications network,” on the Open Technology Initiative webpage. Another project, Ross said, is nicknamed “The panic button” in response to some situations in which people are arrested, their mobile phones confiscated, and then they are tortured to obtain all their passwords, so that their texts, emails, and address book become a guidebook to resistance. For instance, in Iran in 2009, he said, mobile phones became a point of “remarkable vulnerability for people trying to freely express themselves.” The panic button is “something that if you think you are in the danger of being arrested … you can key in a code and it wipes and stores your communications and your address book to the cloud in a way that it cannot be keyed out,” he said. The protocol also sends a stress signal to a pre-identified network of individuals to tell them the person has been arrested, he said. Kathleen Reen, vice president for global initiatives at Internews [3], a non-profit organisation aimed at empowering local media, said at the briefing that it is important that human rights advocates be protected and so protections should be in place, they should be shared and affordable. “Most people in the world do not have access to a credit card and cannot afford the kind of top line services that large media outlets have to stay safe and secure online,” she said. IP and Internet Complicated Issue In the US, nine million Americans got involved in a campaign because they did not want two legislative bills against online piracy, he said, because “it would have disrupted the way that the internet works.” He was referring to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), both of which raised a vast campaign against their introduction that led to the Congress withdrawing them. In that case, he said, the public played a very influential role determining how the internet would be governed. He said he thinks the same kind of dynamic is going to play out in much of
Re: [liberationtech] recommendation for WP host
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 09:10:30PM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 04:13:26PM -0500, Griffin Boyce wrote: If the problem is limited to DDoS attacks, you might find that Cloudflare offers some relief. I agree, but: this thread (dating from today) may be of interest: Cloudflare is down http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2013-March/056564.html Yes, I'm following up my own message. The reason is that I think a particular comment in that thread is worth quoting. This comment provides, in my opinion, sufficient reason to immediately rule out Cloudflare from any further consideration whatsoever. From: Constantine A. Murenin muren...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 12:33:42 -0800 Subject: Re: Cloudflare is down The issue I have is not with their network. The issue is that they require ALL of their customers to hand over DNS control, and completely disregard any kind of situation as what has just happened. * They don't provide any IP-addresses which you can set your A or records to. * They don't provide any hostnames which you can set a CNAME to. (Supposedly, they do offer CNAME support to paid customers, but if you look at their help page for CNAME support, it's clearly evident that it's highly discouraged and effectively an unsupported option.) * They don't let you AXFR and mirror the zones, either. So, the issue here, is that a second point of failure is suddenly introduced to your own harmonised network, and introduced in a way as to suggest that it's not a big deal, and will make everything better anyways. [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
[liberationtech] New details on China TOM-Skype vulnerability
Bloomberg Businessweek reports on a researcher who cracked the list of sensitive terms that trigger the Chinese TOM-Skype application to send messages to a server and sometimes block transmission. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-08/skypes-been-hijacked-in-china-and-microsoft-is-o-dot-k-dot-with-it Remember 2008? Nart Villeneuve/Citizen Lab reported how this worked, and the surveillance barn door was wide open. http://www.infowar-monitor.net/breachingtrust.pdf Graham -- Graham Webster 魏光明 g...@gwbstr.com -- 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] Cryptography Alt-Folk Band Release a New MixTape!
(See, I am learning a thing our two about how to get publicity, aren't I?) Just a quick note to say that Gibberbot, the Guardian Project's free (bot ways), open-source, standards compliant, secure instant messaging app for Android, has been updated. It is rare that you have the opportunity to implement a feature that makes an app more secure AND more usable at the same time, but we did just that, by supporting Google OAuth2 for @gmail and @google domain accounts. We also now support TOFU-POP for SSL verification, which is fun to say, but even more fun to use. You can read about this and find all the relevant links here: https://guardianproject.info/2013/03/08/gibberbot-v11-secure-usable/ HOWEVER, what I would rather you do, is try out a new interactive how to for Gibberbot, that walks through both options for installation, and how to set up a secure and verified mobile chat. View it here - I promise you'll love it: https://guardianproject.info/howto/chatsecurely/ This how-to is the first of a series we will be releasing for all of the apps and services we offer. Many thanks to Mark Belinksy for taking this new effort on for us, and for his very serious focus on making mobile security a bit more fun. If you would like to chat with me my nat...@guardianproject.info email is a valid XMPP jid, so feel free to add me as a buddy, contact, collaborator or confident, in your XMPP/OTR client of choice. +Nathan -- 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] New details on China TOM-Skype vulnerability
If you want to jump straight to the data, it's here: http://cs.unm.edu/~jeffk/tom-skype/ On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Graham Webster g...@gwbstr.com wrote: Bloomberg Businessweek reports on a researcher who cracked the list of sensitive terms that trigger the Chinese TOM-Skype application to send messages to a server and sometimes block transmission. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-08/skypes-been-hijacked-in-china-and-microsoft-is-o-dot-k-dot-with-it Remember 2008? Nart Villeneuve/Citizen Lab reported how this worked, and the surveillance barn door was wide open. http://www.infowar-monitor.net/breachingtrust.pdf Graham -- Graham Webster 魏光明 g...@gwbstr.com -- 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] Startup Global
http://www.entrepreneurship.org/en/Blogs/Policy-Forum-Blog/2013/February/Startup-Global.aspx Startup Global Posted by: Jonathan Ortmanshttp://www.entrepreneurship.org/en/Blogs/Policy-Forum-Blog/Author/Jonathan-Ortmans.aspx on February 25, 2013 Source: Policy Dialogue on Entrepreneurship Thousands of people from 135 countries have already confirmed their participation for next month’s week-long Global Entrepreneurship Congresshttp://www.gec2013.com/en (GEC) and festival in Rio de Janeiro. As chair of the GEC for the past few years, I have witnessed the emergence of this global platform for collaboration among entrepreneurs, their investors and national leaders held outside the United States. So what happens at the GEC? What is interesting about this event is its reach and scale and the evidence it provides of the democratization of entrepreneurship - the phenomenon of startups, and the communities that foster them springing up in the most unexpected corners of the globe. Governments from all corners have been racing to make their nations more attractive to entrepreneurs. The list of countries embarrassed into improving “ease of doing business” in the latest World Bank rankings lists nations of all economic classifications. This is why at the GEC in Rio next month, while Brazilian entrepreneurial prowess will be on show, delegates will experience not an all Brazilian or American show, but a global one focused on startup cities, experiential education, startup legislation, new models for where entrepreneurs can get their money, and an array of the most effective practical efforts in the world— from the likes of Kauffman and Endeavor—to help entrepreneurs scale. This globalization of entrepreneurship has taken place not vertically but mainly horizontally. Over the past few years, the GEC has gathered many entrepreneurs and leaders in the startup community who are quick to dismiss government as irrelevant to their success. It has also welcomed government leaders uninformed about how their existing informal startup communities are already out there making things happen. In Rio, Brad Feld, author of “Startup Communities,” reminded us that a startup revolution has been and should continue to be led by entrepreneurs. At the same time, staff from governments that are exploring legislative and regulatory steps to help startups reminded us it is government that sets the rules and incentives—and that while public sector employees may not look the part, entrepreneurs should be careful not to be so dismissive. The GEC in Rio next month hopes to bring the two together: to find where top down and bottom up meet in developed, emerging and underdeveloped economies. This annual Congress started in Kansas City in 2009, when the Kauffman Foundation convened the very first GEC with the goal of learning from entrepreneurship experts from 60 countries, particularly those pioneer leaders implementing the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW)http://www.kauffman.org/sketchbook.aspx?VideoId=1904190838001 initiative among their fellow citizens. Since then, the GEC has grown rapidly to a gathering that empowers serial and new entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and policymakers to work together to bring ideas to life and drive economic growth. When the second GEC took place in Dubai, entrepreneurship champions from 90 countries convened under the patronage of Sheikh Nahayan Mabarek Al Nahayan, the Minister for Higher Education and Technology in the UAE. Shanghai hosted the GEC in 2011, gathering 1,000 leaders from 100 countries and introduced the idea of the world getting a thorough introduction to the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the Host country. High-ranking Chinese government officials, such as Yan Junqi, the vice chairwoman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress of China and the country’s Minister for Science and Technology interacted with a number of native entrepreneurs and angel investors who had been leading the country’s new wave of entrepreneurial activity. Most recently in 2012, as noted in the Economisthttp://www.economist.com/node/21550239, Liverpool raised the bar again, adding economic researchers and bright personalities to the GEC—including the likes of Richard Branson, founder and chairman of the Virgin Group which consists of more than 400 companies. As part of Liverpool’s own economic renaissance, the city expanded the Congress into a true festival of entrepreneurship with nearly 80 fringe events held around the town. Ideas floated among entrepreneurs, researchers, investors and government officials from 125 countries about everything from seeding startup communities to smarter national policies. This year in Rio, a new addition will be the national advisory boards attending that steer efforts through GEW to build more robust entrepreneurial ecosystems in neighborhoods and cities around the world. The GEC this year
[liberationtech] Mechanical Turk is not anonymous
From: Matt Lease m...@ischool.utexas.edu via asis.org This may be of interest to those in community using Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform for research, as well as those more generally interested in how online data can be linked in ways that can be surprising to people in practice and compromise their privacy in a manner they didn't expect. Several collaborators and I have just announced discovery of a vulnerability on Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform, with potential implications for IRB governance of human subjects research using AMT at US universities. In particular, this vulnerability can be exploited to obtain personally identifying information (PII) and other private information of some workers, who may have shared this information online in a way they did not recognize could be linked to their WorkerIDs. This may impact IRB oversight of research conducted at UT with AMT, as well as what research is classified as human research and subject to IRB governance. I am just starting to follow up on this now with our IRB coordinator here at UT Austin. The announcement of our finding is below: Blog post: http://crowdresearch.org/blog/?p=5177 Paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2228728 We are now trying to get the word out to be AMT workers, as well as researchers whose might be impacted or who may have posted WorkerIDs online which could be compromised via this vulnerability. We would appreciate your help with this. We are also specifically advocating *against* online posting of WorkerIDs due to the risk of workers not having realized that information they have shared could be linked with their worker accounts. Regardless of the vulnerability, we have also found explicit requests from workers to not post such uniquely identifying information. Thanks, Matt -- 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] Looking for collaborators for free-range voting project
An update on this Knight News Challenge submission: The software company Wadobo has joined with its Agora Voting platform. We now have two strong service providers for the mirroring network. We also have the Metagovernment project on board as a neutral facilitator. If you're a provider of on-line, open-source voting services and could use some funding in order to join the mirroring network, please let us know. Adding more providers (up to a certain limit) can only help our chances of winning. See the submission page for contact details: https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/submission/free-range-voting/ -- 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] CfP: Digital Culture Politics
Call for Papers – Digital Culture: Promises and Discomforts Digital Culture and Communication Section of ECREA Workshop Bonn, 2-5 October, 2013 The ongoing mediatisation process is subject to social transformations as well as technical innovation processes and creative practices. We endorse digital technologies with the promises of a better way of life, solving our problems of managing the world’s complexity, allowing better participatory policies and helping us in our daily life. At the same time, however, we are confronted with the fundamental problems of technological structures, such as the problems of Internet surveillance, control and the unequal distribution of power on the Web. Looking at digital cultures as a driving force of social change, we find ourselves confronted with a variety of contradictory images of digital culture and its possible futures. In this workshop we want to critically discuss the promises and discomforts of digital culture taking into account the tensions raised by different material practices, understandings and social orders around the role of digital media in performing social change. Special focus lies on the three aspects of Digital Culture: (1) Digital imaginations and narratives The images of future are drawn in tecno-scapes, like in science-fiction films, artificial intelligence designs, virtual worlds or metaverses. What kinds of individuals, societies and environments are imagined through the growing pervasiveness of Digital Culture into our lives? How digital imaginaries shape our experience and relate to our ways of narrating ourselves and our creative practices? What are the role of innovation, creative industries and urbanlabs in the design of the future and in the different kinds of social intervention? How digital imagination is performing new narrative forms as well as transforming knowledge production and sharing? (2) Digital Neighbourhoods and Citizenship Among the existing networked digital technologies it is smartphones and tablet computers, which are becoming increasingly popular at an extraordinary pace. These devices not only make digital media applications truly ubiquitous but also create an abundance of digital location-sensitive information, which saturates local places, social relations, and the perception and organisation of neighbourhoods. The concept of space turns into a mash-up of material and digital places, creating new forms of the social while at the same time renegotiating the cultural and political logics of local/global or private/public. How does the use of digital media trigger new social phenomena, such as altered forms and modes of communication, collaboration, consumption, infrastructure, mobility or public service? (3) Digital Engagement and Social Change Digital engagement manifests itself in a broad range of digital practices. People discursively engage through and with digital media and thus dissolve spatial, temporal and social boundaries. Especially a few popular commercial social networks, like Facebook and Twitter, are presumed to play a crucial role in the process of social change by means of interaction and connectivity. On a political dimension, citizens and activists voice their opinions, discuss political issues, organize and mobilize for protest in new or alternative public spheres. However, it remains unclear, whether and in which differentiations digital media engagement affects established power relations and thus promotes social change. Which diverse forms of political engagement unfold in digital media environments? How can underlying technological and power structures of media be rendered visible and to what extent do they affect the possibilities and boundaries of digital engagement? We welcome papers picking up any of the described issues and topics and we will also consider contributions related with digital forms of social intervention, art projects or urbanlabs proposals. Extended abstracts should be no longer than 700 words, written in English and contain a clear outline of the argument, the theoretical framework, methodology and results (if applicable). Participants may submit more than one proposal, but only one paper by the same first author might be accepted. Panel and paper proposals from PhD students and early career scholars are particularly welcome. All proposals should be submitted by April 19, 2013 to ecreadigitalcult...@gmail.com. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out after June 13, 2013. Keynote Speakers: Annette Markham (Umeå University, Sweden) Jakob Svensson (Karlstad University, Sweden) Venue: The workshop will take place at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Bonn, Germany, Poppelsdorfer Allee 47, 53115, Bonn. The Workshop date is October 2nd – 5th, 2013. Go to dccecrea2013.uni-bonn.de for more information on the workshop venue and registration.-- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or
Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: [g...@pryzby.org: Ubuntu, Dash, Shuttleworth and privacy]
A small but important point people might have overlooked. An opt-out function for Ubuntu's Dash is less helpful if you're running Ubuntu as a liveboot. If you're running it as a liveboot, you or your startup script will have to disable the Dash leaks each and every time you boot up your computer. It is easy to mistakenly type something sensitive into the Dash before disabling the leaks -- especially when you boot up your live machine three, four times a day across hundreds of days. You're drunk or tired or something -- might sound silly, but that is life -- and you type a passphrase or something else important into the Dash...bad! The take-away point is that when you take live systems into account, the well you can just turn it off argument is weaker. On 02/22/2013 04:06 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: Rich Kulawiec: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 04:53:48AM +, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: Sounds like someone should upload a package that fixes all of the privacy problems, eh? I've thought about this for a couple of days and about 20 miles, and although my initial reaction was yes, they should, I'm now going to reverse myself and say well...maybe not. Here's why. I think the problem here is not susceptible to patching, because the root cause isn't software: it's mindset. The people who think that this is actually a good idea -- and persist in thinking so despite cogent (and in my opinion, highly persuasive) arguments to the contrary -- are unlikely to shift course. The course they've embarked on inevitably leads to more of the same -- oh, with different technical details and levels of impact, of course, but still: more of the same. I am reminded of one of my favorite quotes: I could warn you of course, but you would not listen. I could kill you, but someone would take your place. So I do the only thing I can. I go. I don't think the situation is salvageable; I think the effort that could be put into trying to do so is better spent elsewhere. I think it's time to go. The Opt-out strategy is useful. The question is - how does it make Ubuntu safer or more privacy preserving? For example - what if we were able to make a privacy preserving version that was also reasonably secure and everyone was happy? Perhaps one where people might even be able to opt-out of the privacy enhancements? I'd be fine with such a choice - I don't feel like it is a lost cause either, I think it is, if anything, a lot of work. Who is more likely to experiment in this space? It isn't Apple, it isn't Microsoft, it isn't a lot of Free Software projects; Ubuntu could really improve on their privacy in a way that few others are able to do and in doing so, they'd find a privacy preserving way to make a profit with the consent of those involved. I think the first step is to design such a thing, encourage people to use it and then to show those who are skeptical that the work is done. Now, if they say no, yes, I agree - time to consider it a lost cause. Such a dialog hasn't happened and as a result, I think it is too early to quit. All the best, Jacob -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password 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] cellebrite report
These alternative passcode systems are really neat. Is there a way, though, to quantify, for the different systems, how plausibly the passcode can be 1) remembered or 2) forgotten or 3) forgotten? On 02/27/2013 09:42 AM, R. Jason Cronk wrote: You could play Guitar Hero to get in your phone... http://bojinov.org/professional/usenixsec2012-rubberhose.pdf Another option would be to use animal species. There are some 3-30 million different species of animals. Even restricting oneself to vertebrates, you have about 50,000 species (a five fold increase over a 4 digit pin). The user would be presented with a series of reducing questions. Question 1) Amphibian, Reptile, Bird, Mammal, Fish, etc The user need only remember how to get to their one animal choice. Additional orders of magnitude could be had by adding invertebrates, plants, minerals on the front end or subspecies on the back end. Jason On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Tom Ritter t...@ritter.vg mailto:t...@ritter.vg wrote: The Passcode section of the report is blank, I guess indicating the user did not have a passcode? The article does mention passcodes: All modern smartphones can be locked with a PIN or password, which can slow down, or in some cases, completely thwart forensic analysis by the police (as well as a phone thief or a prying partner). Make sure to pick a sufficiently long password: a 4 character numeric PIN can be cracked in a few minutes, and the pattern-based unlock screen offered by Android can be bypassed by Google if forced to by the government. Finally, if your mobile operating system offers a disk encryption option (such as with Android 4.0 and above), it is important to turn it on. The iPhone has a class of data that is encrypted when the device is locked, and decrypted based off a key derived in part by the passcode when unlocked. I think this, combined with separate passwords for FDE and screen unlocking would be good classes of improvements we can make in all mobile platforms (not just phones). I'd also love to see some research into alternative, higher entropy but simple-to-use screen unlock systems. At first I was thinking something akin to a pattern unlock, but a path through a 3D maze: your password is a series of turns, but even presented with five choices five times the keyspace is too small. What keyspaces present a large number of easy-to-parse options that fit nicely on a phone screen? Maybe a map? I've seen a few attempts[0,1, and others] but I've not been convinced they wind up with an order of magnitude more choices that the baseline 1 of a 4-digit passcode. -tom [0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHBjzlFalvA [1] http://clam.rutgers.edu/~birget/grPssw/authSueE.pdf -- 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 -- *R. Jason Cronk,* *Esq., CIPP* (828) 4RJCESQ r...@privacymaverick.com mailto:r...@privacymaverick.com blog.privacymaverick.com http://blog.privacymaverick.com/ -- 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] mHealth projects in Malawi?
From: imaniche...@gmail.com imaniche...@gmail.com Good morning! My name is Imani Cheers and I'm a multimedia producer with the PBS NewsHour and a 2013 New Media fellow with the International Reporting Project. I'm currently beginning a 10 country tour examining mHealth projects impacting women and girls and my Malawi contact (FrontlineSMS and St. Gabriel's hospital) fell through. I'll be in Lilongwe March 21-24. If anyone knows of any projects or contacts on the groung in Malawi, I would greatly appreciate the information. Thanks for the support! Cheers, ~Imani -- Imani M. Cheers, Ph.D. PBS NewsHour Extra Director MacNeil/Lehrer Productions Arlington, VA http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/ -- 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