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!

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Festival Tracks

1. Community & Communications2. Advocacy/Policy/Fundraising3. Design & Usability4. Diversity5. Gender6. Journalism & Media7. Training & Best Practices8. Tools & Technology

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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

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