[liberationtech] Tactical Tech's Info-Activism Camp 2013
From: Faith Bosworth fa...@tacticaltech.org Hi, We're organising this event next year and are trying to gauge interest early, please share with anyone who might like to attend! Thanks, Faith *** 'The Art of Using Data and Design for Evidence based Activism' First Call for Tactical Tech's Info-Activism Camp 2013 Evidence can be our most powerful asset and when used well it can transform the way we perceive issues. Join us in 2013 at the Info-Activism camp to share and learn about the art of using data and design for evidence-based activism. You know about Wikileaks, but do you know how The Guardian journalists, who had never really worked with data, turned the thousands of leaked cables into information graphics? You may have seen the new parody website Kickstriker or the Chevron We Agree spoof site and wondered what's the art of culture jamming and can you really learn it? Or Exxon Secrets: what are the different data sources you'd have to consult build a website like that? How do you get access to that data? What kinds of back-end, technical skills do you need? Harassmap is popular for the way that it illuminates the issue of sexual harassment on the streets of Cairo through a simple online crowdmap. But the map is just the first step, how do you make it a strategic part of advocacy with communities that are offline? Social media, off-the shelf visualisation tools and digital devices have become more accessible to campaigners but it is still a challenge to create innovative and memorable campaigns that exceed tools and sloganeering. How do we leverage the evidence we have to go beyond the 60 page report and create influential evidence-based campaigns? How can we use data and technology to transcend the typical two-dimensional presentations of information and influence audiences directly with evidence? To explore the answers to questions like these, Tactical Tech, together with its partners, will host the Info-Activism Camp 2013: 'The Art of Using Data and Design for Evidence-Based Activism'. The Info-Activism Camp 2013 will bring together 100 participants from around the world, with 25 skilled facilitators, to collaborate on working with data, visual design and technology for evidence-based activism. Read more about this event and register your interest in attending here: http://tacticaltech.org/camp2013 -- Programme coordinator http://www.tacticaltech.org/ http://www.twitter.com/Info_Activism We have a new resource for activists! On data visualisation: drawingbynumbers.org signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click yes (once you click above) next to would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest? You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Tactical Tech's Info-Activism Camp 2013
Congrats on getting another camp together. 2009 was great! Mary On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.eduwrote: From: Faith Bosworth fa...@tacticaltech.org Hi, We're organising this event next year and are trying to gauge interest early, please share with anyone who might like to attend! Thanks, Faith *** 'The Art of Using Data and Design for Evidence based Activism' First Call for Tactical Tech's Info-Activism Camp 2013 Evidence can be our most powerful asset and when used well it can transform the way we perceive issues. Join us in 2013 at the Info-Activism camp to share and learn about the art of using data and design for evidence-based activism. You know about Wikileaks, but do you know how The Guardian journalists, who had never really worked with data, turned the thousands of leaked cables into information graphics? You may have seen the new parody website Kickstriker or the Chevron We Agree spoof site and wondered what's the art of culture jamming and can you really learn it? Or Exxon Secrets: what are the different data sources you'd have to consult build a website like that? How do you get access to that data? What kinds of back-end, technical skills do you need? Harassmap is popular for the way that it illuminates the issue of sexual harassment on the streets of Cairo through a simple online crowdmap. But the map is just the first step, how do you make it a strategic part of advocacy with communities that are offline? Social media, off-the shelf visualisation tools and digital devices have become more accessible to campaigners but it is still a challenge to create innovative and memorable campaigns that exceed tools and sloganeering. How do we leverage the evidence we have to go beyond the 60 page report and create influential evidence-based campaigns? How can we use data and technology to transcend the typical two-dimensional presentations of information and influence audiences directly with evidence? To explore the answers to questions like these, Tactical Tech, together with its partners, will host the Info-Activism Camp 2013: 'The Art of Using Data and Design for Evidence-Based Activism'. The Info-Activism Camp 2013 will bring together 100 participants from around the world, with 25 skilled facilitators, to collaborate on working with data, visual design and technology for evidence-based activism. Read more about this event and register your interest in attending here: http://tacticaltech.org/camp2013 -- Programme coordinator http://www.tacticaltech.org/ http://www.twitter.com/Info_Activism We have a new resource for activists! On data visualisation: drawingbynumbers.org ___ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click yes (once you click above) next to would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest? You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech -- MARY C. JOYCE Founder | The Meta-Activism Project | www.Meta-Activism.org Digital Activism Consultant | www.MaryJoyce.com Mobile | +1.857.928.1297 ___ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click yes (once you click above) next to would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest? You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] New YouTube face blur tool and its human rights implications
I think it is a good step forward the very least. As long as the visual blur tool call cannot be hijacked/tracked either via HTTP request or client side calls it seems as a tool which would be very useful for plenty. In general I am always hesitant of assigning secure or safe to any transaction. It has very little to do with the technology though but more to do with the perceived comfort/security from people using the tool. I might be cynical but I have been in too many projects where people use online tools blindly without thinking of the transaction in itself. In summary, I think it is a good addition but still do think tools as this one have an associated danger as a perceived security from taking the photo in the first place. I do like their comment about it being the first step forward and that they do not claim it is a home run solution. Much respect for that comment. Erik http://sundelof.com Sent from my iPad On Jul 18, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Matisse Bustos Hawkes mati...@witness.org wrote: Hello all, I'm sure some of you saw today's news that YouTube announced a new face blur tool into their editing suite - as they put it: Whether you you want to share sensitive protest footage without exposing the faces of the activists involved, or share the winning point in your 8-year-old’s basketball game without broadcasting the children’s faces to the world, our face blurring technology is a first step towards providing visual anonymity for video on YouTube. Many of the people on this list have been advocating to YouTube and other commercial platforms to incorporate visual anonymity tools and while we recognize this is not a panacea to the problem of online visual privacy - we think its a step in the right direction. My colleague Sam Gregory also wrote a blog today that discusses some of the human rights use cases for a tool like this, not just in protest situations or crises situations such as Syria, but for anyone concerned with anonymous speech in our visual and networked age. Here's his post: http://blog.witness.org/2012/07/visual-anonymity-and-youtubes-new-blurring-tool/ Looking forward to people's thoughts. Would be great if you're willing to share them publicly that you would do so on our blog or tweet @SamGregory, me at @matissebh or @witnessorg Thanks! Matisse * Matisse Bustos Hawkes Communications Manager WITNESS See it. Film it. Change it. t: 1 718 783 2000 ext. 306 mati...@witness.org @matissebh | @witnessorg New Human Rights Channel on YouTube - curated by WITNESS + Storyful: www.youtube.com/humanrights ___ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click yes (once you click above) next to would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest? You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech ___ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click yes (once you click above) next to would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest? You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] New YouTube face blur tool and its human rights implications
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Matisse Bustos Hawkes mati...@witness.org wrote: Hello all, I'm sure some of you saw today's news that YouTube announced a new face blur tool into their editing suite - as they put it: Whether you you want to share sensitive protest footage without exposing the faces of the activists involved, I wonder if they make timepieces which can measure timespans short enough to clock the amount of time between publication of the announcement and the arrival of the national security letters (and equivalents from the other nations google has physical presence in) requiring google to secretly record and indefinitely retain any of the originals which have been marked for deletion. I think it's good to hear that people are thinking of this, but unfortunate to see that tools like this from institutions and in forms which are structurally incapable of keeping their word, though no fault of their own. Trust should come from promises which can't be broken whenever possible, and in the case of anonymizing video we can do a lot better than cloud hosted SaaS in that regard, especially when they are specifically marketed as being for activism. Youtube could opt not to provide this feature and to leave more room for tools which run entirely under the user's control, but now that they provide it they'll likely not be able to turn it off when its starts being used in a manner which is contrary to human rights. I understand that tool accessibility is also very important, but bad technology crowds out good and anonymity tools which are centralized and deeply and fundamentally unauditable are most certainly the bad kind, even if they were made with the best intentions. I think youtube should reconsider how they're representing this tool and take the opportunity to also recommend some non-SaaS audited tools which can't so easily be secretly compromised. ___ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click yes (once you click above) next to would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest? You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech
