The final panel of the first day included representatives from Human Rights Watch, Reporters without Borders, Hands Across the Mideast Support Alliance, Amnesty International and Global Voices.
Some notes:
- We can support activists by informing them of their legal rights;
- Need to connect with local and national human rights NGOs;
- Find allies within the ICT ministries to help prevent censorship from taking place;
- Respond quickly to censorship; develop tools to detect more quicly and providing tools to host mirror sites;
- Framing a campaign or issue is fundamentally important. When campaigning in the West, we need to frame issues in such a way that they are relevant to them;
- Training is important as technical issues are not always resolved remotely;
- Many advocates rely mostly on email, IM and mobiles, and less so on the Internet
- Riseup.net
- Pidgin.im
- Taking a technical solution to what is otherwise a social issue is a problem;
- Forthcoming book: The Blogging Revolution (September 2008);
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