This month we’re excited to be sharing initial findings from the Phase II Promise Tracker case studies, developed over the past year with partners at the University of São Paulo’s Colaboratory for Development and Participation (Colab-USP). With support from Humanitas360 Institute, Phase II of the the project was launched in […]
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What kinds of online harassment do women in Pakistan face, and what can we learn from Pakistan for our efforts to protect people around the world? (this liveblog was written with Mariel García M) Last week at the Berkman Klein Center, we were privileged to hear from Nighat Dad, a […]
This post was originally published over at MIT CoLab. —- One of the most fulfilling experiences I have had this year was that of planning, recording and editing my first podcast episode ever (along with my collaborators… more about them coming soon). Now: as a technological capacity builder and media […]
At MIT’s Day of Action, Nathan Freitas of Guardian Project led a workshop on mobile security for activists, focusing on various secure messaging apps available today, touching on their benefits and risks for different kinds of activities and communities. Common messaging apps (and their secure setting) Conversations (default, can also […]
In summer 2015 I attended a meeting of the Freedom Expression Network (FEN) in Washington, DC. The FEN is an alliance of a few dozen civil liberties organizations convened by the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), a nonprofit whose mission is to promote freedom of thought, inquiry and expression and […]