Events
Collaborative Conference to Explore Open Government Best Practices AUSTIN, Texas, January 10, 2011 - In collaboration with local and state government officials, advocacy groups and private industry, the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and EFF-Austin will present Texas Government 2.0 Camp (TXGov2.0Camp): Making Transparency Work on
Privacy
Jay Unger's IIW11 slides are a very helpful introduction to the 36 page National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace document produced by Deloitte last year. Also, during the session, Jay shared some things he had heard from the Department of Homeland Security such as "expect the
Events
EFF-Austin, working with the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin, is helping organize the Texas Government 2.0 Camp on January 28-29 at the Austin Community College Eastview Campus. You can see more about the event here: http://txgov20.org/ "The Texas Government 2.0 Camp
Activism
... it's because of people like Chapman and his colleagues, of whom there were not many, that we have a conceptual framework for talking about things like electronic privacy, or the digital divide, or "virtual community." ~ Mike Clark-Madison, Gary Chapman: 21st Century Digital Man "He
Free Speech
EFF's Kevin Bankston has written an overview of the Wikileaks fracas, with relevant links. National EFF's position: "...we agree with other legal commentators who have warned that a prosecution of Assange, much less of other readers or publishers of the cables, would face serious First
Free Speech
Numerous Internet and technology leaders issued a joint statement this week encouraging the FCC to expand its recent analysis of open Internet policy in a newly fruitful direction. In the statement, they commend the agency's recent request for input on "Two Underdeveloped Issues in the Open Internet
Events
Two great events coming up this weekend in Austin, sponsored by EFF-Austin. Friday, join us at NPO Camp - a Barcamp for Nonprofits and Techs. We had one of these several months ago, and it was a real blast! The idea here is to bring the nonprofit and technology communities
Free Speech
David Weinberger interviewed Rick Whitt, a Google lawyer and lobbyist, about the proposed Google-Verizon framework. The original post is here.
Activism
Creative Commons recently offered catalyst grants to help spur awareness and use of Creative Commons. Two grants have been proposed from Austin, one studying the music scene and one promoting the literature scene. You can support either of the projects in the dicusssion part of the page describing the full
Events
EFF-Austin presents WhuffieFest, an evening and encounter with Cory Doctorow. (Why do we call it WhuffieFest? Check here.) When: May 20th, 2010, 7pm-midnight Where: Amelia's RetroVogue and Relics, 2213 South 1st Street, Austin Cost: $10 donation to EFF-Austin, a Texas nonprofit (Why do we call
Free Speech
Last week, Lawrence Lessig gave a fantastic presentation on how government policies for broadband, cybersecurity and copyright have been corrupted by special interest lobbying. Lessig does a great job explaining why reclassification caused American broadband to fall so far behind the rest of the developed world. This video is well
Activism
Jon Lebkowsky of EFF-Austin will be covering Fiber Fete in Lafayette, Louisiana via Twitter: http://twitter.com/jonl. Hashtag is #fiberfete.