internet freedom festival recap, 2016
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Valencia, Spain1-6 March 2016Robert Stribley
Internet Freedom Festival
Valencia Facts
Port city on Spain’s southeastern Orange Blossom Coast
Where the Turia River meets the Mediterranean
Known for its City of Arts and Sciences, which inclues a planetarium, oceanarium and interactive museum
Population 786,424
700-800 attendeesFrom 74 countriesI met people from Zimbabwe, Kenya, Berlin (loads), New Zealand, Canada, Amsterdam 8 Tracks160 sessionsSession notes placed on WikiMany different social opportunitiesIn a lovely, donated space – Las NavesNo photos
IFF Facts
This is what paella for 500 looks like!
IFF Facts
IFF Facts
Festival Tracks
1. Community & Communications2. Advocacy/Policy/Fundraising3. Design & Usability4. Diversity5. Gender6. Journalism & Media7. Training & Best Practices8. Tools & Technology
IFF Facts
Companies Represented
Companies Represented
Companies Represented
I also met attendees from …
Internet Freedom Activists
(Non-Profits, Individuals)
Activists for Affected Groups
(Journalists, Women in the Congo, LGBT, Librarians)
Web-Related Companies
(Google, Twitter, Razorfish)
Technology Developers
(Secure, encrypted apps and services)
Audience Composition
Media(BBC)
Building Security Culture Within Marginalized Communities
Sessions I Attended
Is Mass Adoption of Secure Email Possible?
Beyond the web of trust: How organizations can help build strongly-authenticated ties without privacy compromisesGrassroots surveillance and censorship resistance at your local library: The Library Freedom Project
Your “Enemy" Should Have a Place in Your Internet Space
What Freedom Lovers Need to Know About Internet Governance
Is Mass Adoption of Secure Email Possible?
Ebola: A Humanitarian Disaster
Journalism Security: Meeting the Users Where They Live
Privacy Across Cultures
Gender Gap in On-Line Projects, The Problem in Wikimedia
How to Fight an Internet Shutdown
Stories from the Field: Designing with Users in Mind
Towards freedom of consensual representation online
UX Jam: GridSyncCensorship and online media in the CIS: lessons and best practices
Iranian Cyber Army
Thinking About the Politics of Freedom Online
Salón de Diseño: UX + Internet Freedom
The South – Open Mic Event
Highlights
UX Jam: GridSync
Highlights
UX Jam: GridSync
Hosted by Gus Andrews, Simply Secure
Christopher Dunne, GridSystems – GridSync app
Reviewed personas• LGBT activist• independent blogger
Discussed operating principles and known issues
Brainstorming app features:• Managing storage grids• Managing folders
Highlights
Stories from the Field: Designing with Users in Mind
INTERNET FREEDOM NEEDFINDING FRAMEWORK BY SECONDMUSE
Highlights
Katey and Roxann, SecondMuse
How communities and end users can be a part of the design process from the beginning
Needfinding:The process of discovering the person’s implicit and explicit needs and motivations in order to create a solution
Role Playing: Share stories that help understand risks and threats. Take one story and turn it into a 3-min skit to share with the larger group
Scenario Building Tips• Who is involved?• What’s the specific communication need?• What’s the risk or threat?• What did you do? What did you use? (Tool, person, reference, etc)
Stories from the Field: Designing with Users in Mind
Gender Gap in On-Line Projects, The Problem in Wikimedia
Highlights
Highlights
Santiago Navarro Sanz, Wikimedia España / Wikipedia
2 gender gaps:
In the content itself• Korean - 23% about women, 77% men - best ratio• Malaysian 3% about women - worst• English, French 16%• Spanish 17%
Number of editors ...• 14% U.S.• 8% Germany• 9% U.K.
Possible Solutions:• Documentation and guidelines• Workshops to show how to use Wikimedia• Mentorship• More young people (better proportions among younger people)• Rethinking how people are considered for notability
Gender Gap in On-Line Projects, The Problem in Wikimedia
Highlights
Grassroots Surveillance & Censorship Resistance at Your Local Library
EXAMPLE OF A “WARRANT CANARY”
Highlights
Grassroots Surveillance & Censorship Resistance at Your Local Library
Alison MacrinaLibrarian, privacy activistFounder of the Library Freedom Project
Kade Crockford, ACLU, MA
How can we bring privacy and free speech enhancing technologies to the mainstream?
U.S. libraries some of the first opponents of the Patriot Act
Can’t keep up with the demand in the library community. Trained approx 2500 librarians.
Help set up Tor relays and educate local citizens too
Starting to go into schools, too
Highlights
Journalism Security: Meeting the Users Where They Live
Highlights
Matthew Mitchell, @geminiimattFormer NYT, CNN, Time
Secure your researchSecure your commsSecure your files (desktop)Secure your docs (cloud)Secure your stuffSecure yourself
Journalism Security: Meeting the Users Where They Live
Highlights
How to Fight an Internet Shutdown
CNN: PROTESTERS IN EGYPT POST A SIGN ASKING THE GOVERNMENT TO RESTORE INTERNET SERVICE
Highlights
Iranian Cyber Army & Thinking About the Politics of Freedom Online
Highlights
Privacy Across Cultures
MICHAEL WOLF TAKES PHOTOS OF CROWDED COMMUTERS ON THE TOKYO SUBWAY
Session at Salón de Diseño: UX + Internet Freedom
Peerio
Noteworthy Tools
Tor Signal
UmbrellaTails
•Bring some thought leaders in for lunch ‘n’ learns
•Complete a Medium piece on Wikipedia “notability”
•UX exercise: Need finding
•Possible Wikimedia collaboration
Next Steps
?Questions
HK DISPATCH MARCH 29: HK INDUSTRIAL – PHOTO BY MICHAEL WOLF
thank you