Re: [liberationtech] Help Puerto Rico use tech for social good

[elham gheytanchi]

1. Provide cheap durable mobiles to farmers and blue-color workers —> allows 
these communities to stay connected and know the market for the goods they 
provide without the involvement of the middle-man

2. Conduct short, concise workshops/ podcasts easily accessible on Radio for 
all involved in the agricultural sector —-> to increase awareness about food 
security and clean water.

Thank you Yosem.



Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 8, 2018, at 4:20 PM, Yosem Companys 
> wrote:

Dear friends and colleagues,

  *   How should the Puerto Rican government use technology to improve quality 
of life and socioeconomic development, especially in the poorest and most 
vulnerable communities?

I would appreciate your emailing me as soon as possible one-sentence proposed 
actions in the format of "Do X with Y to achieve Z." Feel free to share links 
to any case studies or articles that may show their successful implementation 
elsewhere.

Your proposed actions could apply to any societal sector including and not 
limited to:

  *   Accountability;
  *   Affordable access to Internet, Web, mobile, or mesh, among others;
  *   Agriculture;
  *   Disaster relief;
  *   Economic growth and development;
  *   Education and training, whether primary, secondary, higher education, 
vocational, or online;
  *   Entrepreneurship;
  *   Environment;
  *   Food;
  *   Health;
  *   Housing that's affordable but can resist storms;
  *   Jobs;
  *   Manufacturing;
  *   Open data;
  *   Open governance;
  *   Pharma/Biotech;
  *   Privacy;
  *   Public safety;
  *   Security, physical or cyber;
  *   Transportation; and,
  *   Water.

Please share with your closest 1-million friends, post on all your social media 
accounts, or email to all your other lists.

I truly appreciate your help.

Thanks,
Yosem
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Re: [liberationtech] Should we start a new Stanford liberationtech-news list?

[elham gheytanchi]

Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 19, 2017, at 8:33 PM, Cecilia Tanaka 
> wrote:

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017, at 1:19 AM, Yosem Companys 
> wrote:

We should tweet about Peru. Perhaps that could be our theme for the day?

​Yep, good idea!  :)

I'm in love with Peru's fight against corruption!  (* o *)  ow! <3​


​I was compiling some material about ​projects against corruption in politics 
because my list needs updates.  Some of the projects are dead now (RIP) and I 
am VERY interested in AI being used against corruption in my country.  Two 
interesting and very recent examples, but are not in English, sorry!  :P

(FR)  
http://www.lemonde.fr/chronique-des-communs/article/2017/02/11/une-carte-collaborative-de-la-corruption-en-france_5078252_5049504.html

(PT)  
http://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/inovacao,brasileiros-criam-robo-para-atacar-corrupcao,70001662349

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Re: [liberationtech] Receiving phone verification and 2-Step Verification codes through a 'number inside Iran'

[elham gheytanchi]

I think it means the codes are generated by the state agencies.

From: col...@averysmallbird.com
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:23:12 -0500
To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Receiving phone verification and 2-Step 
Verification codes through a 'number inside Iran'


On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Nariman Gharib nariman...@gmail.com wrote:
I want to know anybody here know is it a big deal or not and how we can solve 
this issue?
Their SMS partner probably now has a relationship with a local 
telecommunications services company. I'm not sure it's anymore dangerous than 
if the messages were from an international number since it's all equally 
accessible to interception, which is not to say there isn't concerns in that 
regards. I should hope those codes wouldn't be generated by a service 
accessible by Iranian authorities. 

-- 
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Re: [liberationtech] blatant groveling: my book It's Complicated

[elham gheytanchi]

Congratulations. I just ordered it.
Best,elham gheytanchi

From: danah-t...@danah.org
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:12:23 -0500
To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu
Subject: [liberationtech] blatant groveling: my book It's Complicated

Friends  Colleagues - 
In less than a month, my new book - It's Complicated: The Social Lives of 
Networked Teens (see: http://www.danah.org/itscomplicated/ ) - will be 
published.  This is the product of ten years worth of research into how social 
media has inflected American teen life.  I'm writing today in the hopes that 
you might consider pre-ordering a copy (or two grin).  This book (published 
by Yale University Press) is a cross trade/academic book. Pre-sales and first 
week sales significantly affect how a trade book is marketed and distributed. 
Even though this book is based on grounded data, I've written it to be publicly 
accessible in the hopes that parents, educators, journalists, and policy makers 
will read it and reconsider their attitude towards technology and teen 
practices.  The book covers everything from addiction, bullying, and online 
safety to privacy, inequality, and the digital natives debate. I suspect that 
the chapter on privacy might be of particular interest to the folks on this 
list. 
If you have the financial wherewithal to buy a copy, I'd be super grateful.  If 
you don't, I *totally* understand.  Either way, I'd be super super super 
appreciative if you could help me get the word out about the book. I'm really 
hoping that this book will alter the public dialogue about teen use of social 
media. 
You can pre-order it at:- Amazon (Hardcover, Kindle, Audiobook): 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300166311/apophenia-20- Powell's: 
http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780300166316-0- Yale University Press: 
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300166316
Fingers crossed that y'all will find it useful and interesting.  
{{hug}}
danah

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Re: [liberationtech] New newsletter on digital rights in the Arab world - Digital Citizen (المواطن الرقمي)

[elham gheytanchi]

Congratulations.is there a Farsi version too?
From: r.deib...@utoronto.ca
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 14:01:01 -0400
To: liberationt...@mailman.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: [liberationtech] New newsletter on digital rights in the Arab 
world - Digital Citizen (المواطن الرقمي)

Congratulations Jill!

On 2013-07-09, at 1:42 PM, Jillian C. York wrote:Hi friends,

I just wanted to share a new project, The Digital Citizen (or المواطن الرقمي) - 
a monthly newsletter dedicated to covering digital rights issues across the 
Arab world, in both Arabic and English.  Our first edition is due shortly, and 
you can sign up here: http://eepurl.com/B7Qyn

(Of course, if you prefer to read it online, we'll also be publishing over at 
Global Voices Advocacy).

Our newsletter is a little labor of love produced by Global Voices, EFF, 
Access, and Social Media Exchange Beirut.  

Best,
Jillian
-- 
US: +1-857-891-4244 | NL: +31-657086088site:  jilliancyork.com | twitter: 
@jilliancyork 

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the seemingly impossible to become a reality - Vaclav Havel

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Security StudiesMunk School of Global AffairsUniversity of Toronto(416) 
946-8916PGP: 
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Re: [liberationtech] Presidential Candidate Brags About His Direct Role in Violence and Repression - voice analysis service/software

[elham gheytanchi]

Hi Sina:It was reported in the newspapers and Qalibaf has not denied it. I 
don't think there is any dispute over this issue. He is in fact proud of it.
Best,elham 

 Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 17:22:13 +
 From: s...@redteam.io
 To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu
 Subject: [liberationtech] Presidential Candidate Brags About His Direct Role 
 in Violence and Repression - voice analysis service/software
 
 Hello List,
 
 There is an election (selection) about to happen in Iran. Recently a
 secretly recorded tape was leaked to the Internet:
 
 The Campaign has obtained a secretly recorded two-hour audio file of
 Qalibaf in which he details his prominent and direct role in
 repressing and carrying out violence against student protesters in
 July 1999, July 2003, and in the 2009 post-election protests.
 
 http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2013/05/ghalibaf_tape/
 
 Is there anyone on this list, that can help us provide a scientific
 proof that this voice is in fact the voice of Mr. Qalibaf? Such a
 proof can be used by Human rights groups to ban this moster from
 travelling abroad and possibly hold him accountable for his crimes.
 
 I figured someone on this list, may be able to at least point me to
 the right direction.
 
 All the best,
 SiNA
 
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Re: [liberationtech] Please Vote on Reply to Question

[elham gheytanchi]

Reply to all. 
Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®

-Original Message-
From: Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:17:39 
To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu
Subject: [liberationtech] Please Vote on Reply to Question


Dear Liberationtech list subscribers,


Several of you have petitioned to change Liberationtech mailing list's default 
reply to option from reply-to-all to reply-to-poster.  Given the debate 
(see links below), we have decided to put the issue up for a vote: 

* Do you want replies to Liberationtech list messages directed to 
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Please vote by submitting your preference to me by 11.59 pm PST on Sunday, 
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Re: [liberationtech] VPNs are blocked in Iran!

[elham gheytanchi]

there are problems with TOR too.

From: aminsab...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:25:39 +
To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: [liberationtech] VPNs are blocked in Iran!

I've seen the users have had problem with TOR as well.

On 9 March 2013 12:09, Andrew Lewis m...@andrewlew.is wrote:


No TOR?


On Mar 10, 2013, at 12:17 AM, Amin Sabeti aminsab...@gmail.com wrote:




Hi folks,
The Iranian government have been blocked all VPNs and the Iranian users cannot 
connect through them. According to the my sources inside Iran, Ultrasurf, 
Freegate and Psiphon are the only options that the Iranian users can use it 
although some of them have the problem with these circumvention tools as well.





Cheers,
Amin




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[liberationtech] Iceland leading the way towards a ban on violent online porn

[elham gheytanchi]

I found this article on Iceland trying to ban pornography on the internet 
fascinating:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/16/iceland-online-pornography
Can Iceland lead the way towards a ban on violent online pornography?The 
country prides itself on its progressive attitudes, but anti-censorship 
campaigners say move is a backward stepTracy McVeighThe Observer, Saturday 16 
February 2013 17.46 ESTIceland is famous for its Blue Lagoon – now it wants to 
make headlines as the first western country to stop internet pornography. 
Photograph: David Brabiner/AlamySmall, volcanic, with a proud Viking heritage 
and run by an openly gay prime minister,Iceland is now considering becoming the 
first democracy in the western world to try to ban online pornography.A 
nationwide consultation has found wide support for the move from police and 
lawyers working in the field of sexual violence, along with health and 
education professionals, according to Halla Gunnarsdóttir, adviser to the 
interior minister Ögmundur Jónasson. Ministers are now looking at the 
results.We are a progressive, liberal society when it comes to nudity, to 
sexual relations, so our approach is not anti-sex but anti-violence. This is 
about children and gender equality, not about limiting free speech, she said. 
Research shows that the average age of children who see online porn is 11 in 
Iceland and we are concerned about that and about the increasingly violent 
nature of what they are exposed to. This is concern coming to us from 
professionals since mainstream porn has become very brutal.A strong consensus 
has been building, with people agreeing that something has to be done. The 
internet is a part of our society, not separate from it, and should be treated 
as such. No one is talking about closing down exchange of information. We have 
a thriving democracy here in our small country and what is under discussion is 
the welfare of our children and their rights to grow and develop in a 
non-violent environment.There are some who say it can't be done technically – 
but we want to explore all possibilities and take a political decision on what 
can be done and how.Gender equality is highly valued in Iceland and by its 
prime minister, Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir. In the Global Gender Gap Report 2012, 
Iceland holds the top spot, closely followed by Finland, Norway and Sweden.An 
online ban would complement Iceland's existing law against printing and 
distributing porn, and follow on from 2010 legislation that closed strip clubs 
and 2009 prostitution laws that criminalised the customer rather than the sex 
worker.Web filters, blocked addresses and making it a crime to use Icelandic 
credit cards to access pay-per-view pornography, are among the plans being 
devised by internet and legal experts.Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir, a gender 
specialist at Iceland University, said: This initiative is about narrowing the 
definition of porn so it does not include all sexually explicit material but 
rather material that can be described as portraying sexual activity in a 
violent or hateful way.The issue of censorship is indeed a concern and it is 
important to tread carefully when it comes to possible ways of restricting such 
material. For example, we have a new political party, the Pirate party, that is 
very concerned about all forms of restrictions on the internet. It is very 
important not to rush into anything but rather have constructive dialogues and 
try to find the best solutions. I see the initiative of the interior ministry 
on this issue as a part of that process. Otherwise we leave it to the porn 
industry to define our sexuality and why would we want to do that?Not all the 
experts agree with the idea that porn is bad. Studies are often small and it is 
now impossible to find large numbers of young males who have never watched 
porn. But one 2009 study conducted by Montreal University found that porn did 
not change men's perception of women.Another, however, by Dr Tim Jones, a 
psychologist at Worcester University, concluded: The internet is fuelling more 
extreme fantasies and the danger is that they could be played out in real 
life.There is evidence of a massive rise in internet porn addictions and in 
the type of porn available becoming more hardcore. Women are reporting more 
relationship problems caused by their partners' porn habits and the number of 
indecent images involving children is escalating.Iceland's move has been 
welcomed by Dr Gail Dines, a professor of sociology at Wheelock College in 
Boston and the author of Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked Our Sexuality. Of 
course internet porn is damaging, she said. We have years of empirical 
evidence. It's like global warming – you will always find some global warming 
deniers out there who can quote some little piece of research they have found 
somewhere, some science junk, but the consensus is there.We are not saying you 
see porn and go out and rape, but we are saying it 

Re: [liberationtech] Why Al-Qaida Hates the Internet: Trust Problems on Jihadi Discussion Forums

[elham gheytanchi]

I was curious to know what language/s the researcher has covered? 
Best,elham gheytanchi

 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:45:14 +0100
 From: jul...@julianoliver.com
 To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu
 Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Why Al-Qaida Hates the Internet: Trust Problems 
 on Jihadi Discussion Forums
 
 
 I must say I find the subject of this post a little ridiculous. 
 
 Firstly, it's good there are trust problems on jihadist discussion forums. If 
 it
 was smooth-sailing organising such efforts of violence then we should be all 
 the
 more worried. Were Western forces their attacks (say in Yemen, Somalia or
 Pakistan) in discussion forums I'm sure there'd be plenty of distrust there
 also. 
 
 Secondly, al-Qaeda obviously use the WWW and the Internet a lot and so would
 probably not want to take down part of what is obviously their own
 communications infrastructure. As such I doubt al-Qaeda Hate the Internet.
 
 The Internet doesn't implement Democracy, Anarcho-syndicalism or
 Totalitarianism. It does however provide a great deal of opportunity for the
 implementation of these in both Western and non-Western contexts.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Julian
 
 ..on Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:27:42AM -0800, Yosem Companys wrote:
  Why Al-Qaida Hates the Internet: Trust Problems on Jihadi Discussion
  Forums
  *CISAC Social Science Seminar*
  
  DATE AND TIME
  January 24, 2013
  3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
  
  AVAILABILITY
  Open to the public
  No RSVP required
  
  
  SPEAKER
  Thomas Hegghammer http://fsi.stanford.edu/people/thomas_hegghammer/ -
  Zukerman Fellow at CISAC
  
   The trust problem limits what rebels can do online. The scarcity of
  non-verbal cues in digital communication facilitates deceptive mimicry,
  which undermines the interpersonal trust required for sensitive
  transactions. Open-source data from jihadi discussion forums show that
  distrust there is very high and direct recruitment rare. General trust also
  declined during the observation period (2006-2011). As of 2012, forums are
  still in use, but primarily for low-stake activities such as
  propaganda-sharing and ideological debate. Confidence in the authenticity
  of propaganda remains relatively high, due to vetting institutions and
  hard-to-fake video formats. A modicum of interpersonal trust also remains,
  thanks to reputation systems and a few relatively reliable signs of
  trustworthiness involving time expenditure. The trust problem is an
  Achilles’ heel for terrorists online – but probably also for pro-democracy
  activists in authoritarian settings.
  
  LOCATION
  CISAC Conference Room
  Encina Hall Central, 2nd floor
  616 Serra St.
  Stanford University
  Stanford, CA 94305
 
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Re: [liberationtech] Cuba detains Yoani Sanchez

[elham gheytanchi]

and here is the news about a blogger who was killed in prison in Iran:
http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2012/11/sattar-beheshti/

From: compa...@stanford.edu
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 13:10:14 -0800
To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu
Subject: [liberationtech] Cuba detains Yoani Sanchez

#Cuba govt detains net activist @YoanifromCuba; demand her release 
http://is.gd/qMjFEt

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Re: [liberationtech] Bitcoin and The Public Function of Money

[elham gheytanchi]

I remember reading a fine book in grad school titled social meaning of Money 
that served like a reference book on these issues from a sociological point of 
view. 
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-Original Message-
From: Bill Woodcock wo...@pch.net
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:42:51 
To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Bitcoin and The Public Function of Money



On Oct 30, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Dmytri Kleiner d...@telekommunisten.net wrote:
 The critical feature required of public money is that we can socially 
 determine how much of it there is, and how much of we want to apply to public 
 purpose. We need ways to create and destroy public money so that we can can 
 have a counter-balance to private activity, to manage cycles, to 
 counter-balance economic sectors, and to socially pursue public objectives.
 -- 
 Dmytri Kleiner
 Venture Communist


Something I've noted about both Bitcoin and bullion-backed currencies, that 
might hold true of some other currencies as well, is that they're the product 
of the consumption of labor.  With bitcoin, you can waste CPU cycles on a task 
with no intrinsic value, and the result is bitcoin.  With bullion-backed 
currencies, you can send miners into one hole in the ground to consume 
calories, and construction workers into another hole in the ground to consume 
calories and construction materials, and move metal from one hole to the other, 
and the result is money.

Potlatch economies have always resonated a little more sympathetically for me.

    -Bill Vladimir Ilyich Perkins Woodcok





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Re: [liberationtech] Iranian Conservative Bloggers - April 2012

[elham gheytanchi]

Wish they had defined conservative bloggers more clearly. In Persian we call 
a whole range of ideologies conservative: does the report mean 
Islamists/fundamentalists or those who are politically conservative? None of 
the groups have a conservative take on the economy- i.e. free market, etc. 
Best,elham gheytanchi


From: aminsab...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 14:58:10 +0100
To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu
Subject: [liberationtech] Iranian Conservative Bloggers - April 2012

Good piece about conservative bloggers in Persian cyberspace: 
http://storify.com/smallmedia/iranian-conservative-bloggers-april-2012


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