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Guest post: Paul Biggar announces the Tech For Palestine Incubator One year later, 40,000 lives fewer, the devastation of Gaza’s infrastructure and the worst escalation of violence across the West Bank in a generation, Palestine remains under brutal occupation. Tech for Palestine (T4P) joins the many groups organizing

(An announcement follows) At last – The Social Web Foundation! For months I've been working with two leaders of the open social networking movement, Tom Coates and Evan Prodromou, and together we have formed the Social Web Foundation. SWF is a new non-profit organization dedicated to connecting social

Brazil vs. X and France vs. Telegram... vs. users Pavel Durov is not the world’s most sympathetic detainee. He is a billionaire tech founder whose messaging app, Telegram, has been a safe harbor for school shooters and neo-Nazis. Under his direction, Telegram has operated like a free-for-

Yerevan Dialogue 2024 Last week I was in Yerevan for a high-level, geopolitics event. I was asked to comment on emerging AI markets. I was joined by the Armenian Minister of High-Tech and a host of other impressive speakers. We stand on the brink of a technological revolution

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,

The Arrest Of Telegram’s Pavel Durov: What’s Encryption Got To Do With It? For Tech Policy Press Last weekend, Pavel Durov, the cofounder and CEO of Telegram, found himself detained after his private jet landed in France from Azerbaijan. Durov, who holds multiple passports but is originally of