[liberationtech] Call for comments: IGF BPF on Cybersecurity

2016-12-05 Thread Maarten Van Horenbeeck
Hi everyone, This Thursday in Guadalajara, the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will conduct a meeting of the Best Practices Forum on cybersecurity, which has been documenting issues in multistakeholder cooperation on cybersecurity. A draft outcome document is published for public comment here:

Re: [liberationtech] Gambia

2016-12-05 Thread Heather Leson
Thanks for bringing up this topic. Did you see this article from the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/05/gambia-argos-president-security-guard-adama-barrow Heather Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Mon, Dec 5,

Re: [liberationtech] Gambia

2016-12-05 Thread Richard Brooks
Had not seen that. When Bill Clinton was elected in the US, did they mention that he grew up in a trailer park? It seems like the motivation for this type of story is obvious, and sad. When one of the worst autocrats is overthrown by democratic means, it should be big news. On 12/05/2016 02:29 PM

[liberationtech] New Call for Open Access Book Proposals: Critical Digital and Social Media Studies

2016-12-05 Thread Christian Fuchs
NEW CALL FOR OPEN ACCESS BOOK PROPOSALS: CRITICAL DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA STUDIES Critical Digital and Social Media Studies is a new open access book series edited by Professor Christian Fuchs on behalf of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies and published by the University of West

[liberationtech] Gambia

2016-12-05 Thread Richard Brooks
Have not seen any discussion here on Gambia, where a surprise peaceful exchange of power seems to be taking place. The dictator cut off Internet and phone service during the election and yet has accepted that he lost the election. A rare piece of good news. -- Liberationtech is public & archives

[liberationtech] disease modeling and crisis mapping

2016-12-05 Thread Yosem Companys
Interesting project. -- YC * From: Jacob Barhak I am a disease modelers so the crisis I am mapping is ongoing - people always get ill and die out of some health crisis at some point in life. I am trying to figure out what may happen in the future if the future behaves like data we have. Su