charity: a secret for cyberspace by jon creekmore

Charity A Secret in Cyberspace

Jon Creekmore and Henry Wanjala

Def Agenda()

Def Agenda(Charity) {Intro;Charity in the Real World;What is Cyberspace?;The Cyber Ecosystem;A Sense of Community;Debugging a Word;Deploying Charity 2.0;Supervising and Evaluating;return A Better Cyberspace;

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Intro()

Using Hacker.Codenry• Henry Wanjala “Codenry"

• independent security researcher• passionate about STEM education • worked with numerous charity organization to better

humanitarian initiatives• software engineering (Aptech University, Uganda)• Mentored Team (4525) in First Robotics in Canada 2016• full stack web integrator• Currently in Canada where volunteering to engineer a

humanitarian web application

Using Hacker.JonPersonal• .NET Programmer Association

• PhD Candidate in Information Assurance and Security from a DHS/NSA Center of Excellence

• Loves to do pro bono work and help make a difference in people

• Talks a lot… no really… a lot…

Professional• CSO and Director of Tech

• VP of Augusta Locksports

• President of CSRA ISC2 Chapter

• Military Cyber Professional Association (MCPA)

• The Cyber Discovery Group

def(Charity)How does this impact our cyber ecosystem?

Merriam-Webster Doesn’t Work?!

1: benevolent goodwill toward or love of humanity2:

a : generosity and helpfulness especially toward the needy or suffering; also : aid given to those in needb : an institution engaged in relief of the poorc : public provision for the relief of the needy

3:a : a gift for public benevolent purposesb : an institution (i.e. hospital) founded by such a gift

4: lenient judgment of others

What is Cyberspace?Enter the web…

So kind of like an ecosystem process?

• Ecosystem Process

• The physical, chemical and biological actions or events that link organisms and their environment.

The Real World…

The World of Cyberspace with Charity…

Abiotic

Producer

Consumer

Decomposers

Catalyst*

def(Catalyst)

• 1: a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible

• 2: an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action

A Sense Of Community()

What Keeps Us Together

Elements of a Sense of Community(McMillan and Chavis Theory)

• Membership

• Influence

• Integration and Fulfilment

• Shared Emotions

Membership

“Membership is a feeling that one has invested part of oneself to become a member and therefor has a right to belong.”

Asking questions, trying to understand, part of it

alert(Responsibility)

Influence

“for a member to be attracted to a group, he or she must have some influence over what the group does.”“On the other hand, cohesiveness is contingent on a group’s ability to influence its members.”

alert(Control)

Aaron Swartz 1986-2013

Integration and Fulfilment

“For any group to maintain a positive sense of togetherness, the individual-group association must be rewarding.”“Groups with a sense of community work to find a way to fit people together so that people meet the needs of others.”

part of it, did it together

alert(Dependency)

Shared Emotional Connection

“A shared emotional connection is based, in part, on a shared history.”“not necessary that group members have participated in the history in order to share it, but they must identify with it.”

alert(Empathy)

Vulnerability Testing

Debugging a Word()Redefining Charity

Inputs

Desired Outputs

Error Outputs

Total Outputs

Exceptions

Exception Handling

• Code of Ethics• Coding Principles• Best Practices

• Common Standards• Emerging Laws• Common, Code, and Theocratic Law

Setting the Breakpoint

• Where the cycle or sense of community breaks?

• Producers driving production? • Consumers eating abiotic?• Where is decomposition going?

• Ways to measure metrics or milestones in growth

• Gamification• Economic Surveys• Bilateral cooperation

Deploying Charity 2.0

Patching Our Community

• Get involved with local hacker/maker space

• Contributing to an open source project

• Gamification of STEM (Robotics Competitions, Cyberlympics, etc.)

Patching Our Community

• Helping other communities that are offline

• Presenting/attending conferences

• Cyber Fast Track 2.0 (now with nonprofits!)*

• And much more…

Supervising and Evaluating

What can we do to ensure it works?

Individual• Self-assessment• Mentoring

Collective• Summits• Forums• Conferences• Census

Bottom Line…Charity 2.0 = A Secret to a Better Cyberspace

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