Re: [liberationtech] Towards a Public Communication and Information Infrastructure

2016-05-10 Thread michael gurstein
Folks with an interest in the "delivering community power" proposal might also find this of interest...(its something of a riff off that proposal https://gurstein.wordpress.com/2016/04/15/repurposing-post-offices-as-community-innovation-hub-inclusion-equity-and-deconcentration/ M On Mon, May 9,

[liberationtech] FW: Just Net Coalition publication: Delhi declaration and related articles

2014-04-22 Thread michael gurstein
Moving forward the necessary discussion on a political economy of the Internet the essays pointed to below were compiled for NETmundial http://netmundial.br/ – The Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance meeting about to start in São Paulo discussing the future of

[liberationtech] Just Net Coalition Response to NetMundial Outcome Document

2014-04-22 Thread michael gurstein
Please find below and attached the Just Net Coalition's response to the draft NetMundial Outcome Document. * Just Net Coalition Response to NetMundial Outcome Document * President Dilma's Speech in the UN General assembly last September, resonated throughout the world. It expressed the outrage

[liberationtech] Blogpost: The Multistakeholder Model, Neo-liberalism and Global (Internet) Governance

2014-03-27 Thread michael gurstein
http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/the-multistakeholder-model-neo-libe ralism-and-global-internet-governance/ http://t.co/EU8F1LgUn6 Mike -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated:

[liberationtech] FW: Dronification?

2014-03-19 Thread michael gurstein
Could fly by wire flight MH 370 have been hacked a la SCADA/Stuxnet and turned into a drone? http://americablog.com/2014/03/malaysia-air-flight-370-hacked.html?utm_sourc e=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americablog+%28AMERICAblog +News+%29 -- Liberationtech is public archives

[liberationtech] FW: An Internet for the Common Good: Engagement, Empowerment and Justice for All: A Community Informatics Declaration

2014-01-13 Thread michael gurstein
An Internet for the Common Good: http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1099/1065 Engagement, Empowerment and Justice for All A Community Informatics Declaration Effective use of the Internet will benefit everyone. Currently the benefits of the Internet are distributed unequally:

[liberationtech] So, What Do We Do Now? Living in a Post-Snowden World

2014-01-01 Thread michael gurstein
http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/so-what-do-we-do-now-living-in-a-po st-snowden-world/ http://tinyurl.com/pvghcey So, What Do We Do Now? Living in a Post-Snowden World Michael Gurstein As the avalanche of Snowden revelations resumes after it's brief organizational regrouping

[liberationtech] Blogpost: Internet Justice: A Meme Whose Time Has Come

2013-11-28 Thread michael gurstein
Perhaps this may be of interest http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/11/27/internet-justice-a-meme-whose-time- has-come/ http://tinyurl.com/lwuyvdk Comments (preferably on the blogsite itself) greatfully welcomed. (I see this as a bit of a living document and it has already been somewhat modified

[liberationtech] FW: OA Journal of Community Informatics Passes Million Downloaded Papers Mark

2013-11-19 Thread michael gurstein
, Mike Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics web: http://ci-journal.net email: gurst...@gmail.com -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo

[liberationtech] FW: [bestbits] Rousseff Chehade: Brazil will host world event on Internet governance in 2014

2013-10-09 Thread michael gurstein
A very very important post-Snowden development. Bravo to Brazil (and Chehade)! M Bestbits.net [mailto:bestbits-requ...@lists.bestbits.net] On Behalf Of Carlos A. Afonso Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 2:46 PM To: Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus - IGC; NCSG List; BestBits List

Re: [liberationtech] Blogpost: Internet Freedom and Post-Snowden Global Internet Governance

2013-09-25 Thread michael gurstein
. Fioretti Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 12:03 AM To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Blogpost: Internet Freedom and Post-Snowden Global Internet Governance On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 16:03:30 PM -0700, michael gurstein wrote: With links http://gurstein.wordpress.com

[liberationtech] Blogpost: Internet Freedom and Post-Snowden Global Internet Governance

2013-09-24 Thread michael gurstein
With links http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/internet-freedom-and-post-snowden-g lobal-internet-governance/ http://tinyurl.com/n3onw87 Internet Freedom and Post-Snowden Global Internet Governance: Michael Gurstein The big story for the 2012 Internet Governance Forum in Baku

[liberationtech] FW: [Dewayne-Net] New Snowden Leak Reports 'Groundbreaking' Developments in Cryptoanalysis

2013-08-29 Thread michael gurstein
-Original Message- From: dewayne-...@warpspeed.com [mailto:dewayne-...@warpspeed.com] On Behalf Of Dewayne Hendricks Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 4:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net Subject: [Dewayne-Net] New Snowden Leak Reports 'Groundbreaking' N New Snowden Leak Reports

[liberationtech] FW: Re : URGENT: Request for endorsing a civil society statement on democratising Internet governance as input to UN Working Group

2013-08-25 Thread michael gurstein
for democratising global governance of the Internet. Please circulate widely! Note that the last date to send your endorsement is 29th August Dear Michael Gurstein, Greetings from IT for Change! You had participated in a campaign for 'democratising the global governance of the Internet http

[liberationtech] FW: [Dewayne-Net] Are Hackers the Next Bogeyman Used to Scare Americans Into Giving Up More Rights?

2013-08-12 Thread michael gurstein
-Original Message- From: dewayne-...@warpspeed.com [mailto:dewayne-...@warpspeed.com] On Behalf Of Dewayne Hendricks Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:32 AM To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Are Hackers the Next Bogeyman Used to Scare Americans Into Giving Up

Re: [liberationtech] Critically Examining What Would Happen if the U.N. (or another international body) Administered the Internet?

2013-08-03 Thread michael gurstein
Hi Zack, A belated response. This issue is a/the primary subject of discussion at the annual UN sponsored Internet Governance Forum http://www.intgovforum.org/ and the associated e-list mailto:governa...@lists.igcaucus.org of the Internet Governance civil society caucus. I've covered some of

Re: [liberationtech] PRISM Open Data

2013-06-25 Thread michael gurstein
I think that there is another link as well... Much of the Open Data initiative/discussion is about data transparency... making government operations more transparent (and thus enhancing the presumed accountability of government operations/activities to citizens). In some sense privacy is also

[liberationtech] FW: [Ottawadissenters] Infinite Romeo: The Secret Government Program to Manipulate Dating Sites

2013-06-13 Thread michael gurstein
Now we know. M From: ottawadissent...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ottawadissent...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Kurtz Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 6:48 AM Subject: [Ottawadissenters] Infinite Romeo: The Secret Government Program to Manipulate Dating Sites

Re: [liberationtech] the Blackberry and Surveillance?

2013-06-12 Thread michael gurstein
I haven`t been watching that closely but in the course of my following the current discussions on surveillance I have yet to see a reference to RIM/Blackberry... Is this because it`s recent loss of market share means it isn`t of particular interest (I would have thought the up to recent user

Re: [liberationtech] Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data

2013-06-11 Thread michael gurstein
Sad but I guess true, but there has been a huge amount of learning from this particularly internationally and the reverberations on that will continue and perhaps even grow for a very very long time. M -Original Message- From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu

[liberationtech] FW: [IP] Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program - NYTimes.com

2013-06-08 Thread michael gurstein
-Original Message- From: David Farber [mailto:d...@farber.net] Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 7:30 AM To: ip Subject: [IP] Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program - NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/technology/tech-companies-bristling-conced

[liberationtech] James Clapper (Director of USA National Intelligence) said in a statement

2013-06-07 Thread michael gurstein
James Clapper (Director of USA National Intelligence) said in a statement, per USA Today--the program (PRISM) has clear limits: It cannot be used to intentionally target any US citizen, any other US person, or anyone located within the United States. Reassuring I guess, unless you don't happen

Re: [liberationtech] PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-07 Thread michael gurstein
So what if it was a one character typo? m substituted for b... happens all the time in these kinds of presentations... M -Original Message- From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Eugen Leitl Sent: Friday, June 07,

[liberationtech] Airline Shutdown Because of Loss of Internet Service?

2013-06-06 Thread michael gurstein
This is probably not a Liberation issue directly but I'm not sure where else to address it... Sunday I was flying (Porter Airlines--small short hop Canadian carrier) from NYC to Ottawa, ON with a plane change in Toronto. When we arrived in Toronto we were informed that because the Internet was

Re: [liberationtech] Airline Shutdown Because of Loss of Internet Service? MICHAEL GURSTEIN AND YOSSEM

2013-06-06 Thread michael gurstein
: [liberationtech] Airline Shutdown Because of Loss of Internet Service? MICHAEL GURSTEIN AND YOSSEM Importance: High I would like to post this on my FB wall Would that be all right? Seems to me to be very important, with all the horrible talk going on in favor of internet voting I await your

Re: [liberationtech] Airline Shutdown Because of Loss of Internet Service?

2013-06-06 Thread michael gurstein
] Airline Shutdown Because of Loss of Internet Service? On 06/06/2013 03:45 AM, michael gurstein wrote: This is probably not a Liberation issue directly but I'm not sure where else to address it... Sunday I was flying (Porter Airlines--small short hop Canadian carrier) from NYC to Ottawa

Re: [liberationtech] Airline Shutdown Because of Loss of Internet Service?

2013-06-06 Thread michael gurstein
Salesforce.com for CRM to Maximo for Asset management), or, in general, XaaS (AWS, Rackspace, etc.), for critical business systems, a fast-growing trend, the Internet is their backbone. On Jun 6, 2013 2:45 AM, michael gurstein gurst...@gmail.com wrote: This is probably not a Liberation issue directly

[liberationtech] BBC: Izmir police arrested 25 people for tweeting misinformation.

2013-06-05 Thread michael gurstein
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22776946 Also in Izmir, state-run Anatolia news agency reported that police had arrested 25 people for tweeting misinformation. An official from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Ali Engin, told Anatolia they were being held for calling

[liberationtech] FW: Call for Papers (Abstracts) Community Informatics and the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)

2013-05-25 Thread michael gurstein
Please forward as appropriate. == Call for Papers: Special Issue – Community Informatics and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) The Journal of Community Informatics (http://ci-journal.net) Abstract submissions due June 15, 2013 Full

Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals conferences

2013-04-09 Thread michael gurstein
/2013 04:19 PM, michael gurstein wrote: I'm wondering whether some global equivalent of the copyright collection societies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_collective might not work although they would need to be updated to reflect current issues around CC and related licensing

Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals conferences

2013-04-09 Thread michael gurstein
the process of publication i.e. it is published because we/they/someone says that it is being published... But maybe in the end we are saying the same thing but using words in a slightly different way. On 08 April, 2013 - michael gurstein wrote: Perhaps you could explain what you mean here as your

Re: [liberationtech] [CivicAccess-discuss] Secrecy for Sale: How ICIJ's Project Team Analyzed the Offshore Files

2013-04-04 Thread michael gurstein
From: civicaccess-discuss-boun...@civicaccess.ca [mailto:civicaccess-discuss-boun...@civicaccess.ca] On Behalf Of Tracey P. Lauriault Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 11:02 AM To: civicaccess discuss Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] Secrecy for Sale: How ICIJ's Project Team Analyzed the Offshore Files

Re: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?

2012-12-31 Thread michael gurstein
Hi, I'm not sure but this might be of some relevance here http://www.n4c.eu/ (you should substitute a helicopter for the motorcycle and reindeer and reindeer herders for rural dwellers in India or Pakistan... (The underlying technology is called DTN-Delay Tolerant Networking. (technical contact

Re: [liberationtech] Julian Assange is seeking asylum

2012-06-19 Thread michael gurstein
I would have thought it was more like a huge fear of being (unreasonably) trolled. M -Original Message- From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of KheOps Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 1:24 PM To: