Green Hat
Announcing the Green Tech Hackathon: From 10-11 December in Amsterdam https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/announcing-the-green-tech-hackathon/
We are looking for enthusiastic and critical thinkers in Green Tech. If you are a hacker, software developer, climate expert, network engineer, student, researcher, data scientist, designer, economist, sys-admin, philosopher, gardener, academic, or poet, who wants to create a sustainable future, then this event is for you!
Efforts should be solution oriented toward: Renewable energy; Sustainable purchasing; E-waste recycling; Water consumption of data centres; Low-tech networking; Inclusion of marginalised voices in Internet Governance; Reuse and repurpose of telecom equipment; Energy efficiency; Data minimalism; DeGrowth tech; Feminist Internet; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for ISPs; Materiality Assessments and Alignment with the UN SDG's; Solar Punk; Carbon-aware routing; Permacomputing.
Get more information and apply to attend before November.
And consider this an official petition to take back the meaning of Green Hat.
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Hot off my browser
- Brazil didn't just ban X, it also banned VPNs. Tor's Executive Director Isabel writes, "VPNs protect your privacy and may be indispensable for many people, including Ministers" (Portuguese) https://www.intercept.com.br/2024/09/03/vpns-protegem-a-sua-privacidade/
- Burçu Kilic on messaging interoperability and the limits of WhatsApp’s solution https://www.cigionline.org/articles/what-comes-after-the-family-group-chat-moves-to-whatsapp
- Rural, remote indigenous communities training their own workers to help bridge digital divide https://www.thewirereport.ca/2024/08/28/workforce-development-ici-bootcamp/
- If you use YouTube for music playlists and want to transfer the playlist to Apple Music, or vice versa, you can now do that thanks to the Data Transfer Initiative https://dtinit.org/blog/2024/08/27/DTI-members-new-music-tool
- My colleague Evan Prodromo’s much anticipated book on Activity Pub is nearly out! There's a pre-release version available for free with a 10-day trial of the O'Reilly Learning Platform: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/activitypub/9781098162733/
- The White House convened a meeting this week to encourage U.S. tech giants to offer more digital bandwidth for government-funded internet censorship evasion tools https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-calls-big-tech-help-evade-online-censors-russia-iran-2024-09-05/
- This new research report is interactive, "Unbreakable: Designing for Trustworthiness in Private Messaging" https://www.designtrustworthymessaging.org/
- A routing security roadmap was published this week by the Biden-Harris administration https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/briefing-room/2024/09/03/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-releases-roadmap-to-enhance-internet-routing-security/
- Steven Feldstein writes about China's bid to catch up to Starlink https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2024/08/china-starlink-qianfan-satellite-internet-launch-priority?lang=en
- Read a report from Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy on Algorithmic Discrimination in Latin American Welfare States https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/2024-08/24_Smart_Final_01.pdf
- Aloha Browser is coming for cookie consent pop-ups at the W3C https://www.forbes.com/sites/esatdedezade/2024/09/04/those-annoying-cookie-pop-ups-could-soon-vanish-should-tech-companies-be-worried/
- On 12 September Marwa Fatafta to keynote the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre Mary Robinson Speaker Series 2024, "Business is never neutral: Corporate responsibilities in conflict and crisis" https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/events/mary-robinson-speaker-series-2024-business-is-never-neutral-corporate-responsibilities-in-conflict-and-crisis/
- The Paris Peace Forum is looking for inspiring initiatives for the Paris AI Action Summit in 2025. Applications are open until October 7 https://parispeaceforum.org/call-for-ai-projects/
- The cybercrime treaty will be bad for Namibia https://www.observer24.com.na/un-cybercrime-treaty-enables-threatening-state-intrusion/
A podcast episode on Telegram
For your Friday listening (rather than reading) enjoyment, the smart and fun Alix Dunn had me on Computer Says Maybe to talk about encryption and internet governance. Only some of it is about Telegram!
Please forward and share!