TacticalMediaRoom/2022-03-09
Tactical Media Room notes 9 March
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Contents
9.3.2022
on wednesday 9.3. there was an informal meeting in De Waag, with the topic of “how can tech community work together with journalists & non-techies in conflict areas”, more specifically - during (and after) the war between Russia & Ukraine; specifically, what can the organisations in Amsterdam/Holland do.
these are NOT official notes, just my version - with the goal to inform *my* contacts of what is needed and where they can contribute.
more notes are here: https://thisisnotgoogledocs.waag.org/Products/Files/DocEditor.aspx?fileid=1711&doc=RDRqd005Q0YrdHJOczVMQmJrL21JVjRjN0pEdlVKSUhJYi9UTlNMRytWQT0_IjE3MTEi0
Problems that need solving
- secure communication across the borders, in case of damage to Internet (physical or policy/censorship)
- communication WITHIN the country, if there is no Internet / electricity
Concrete requests
- techies - to help support the website () -> backend, DB, GitLabs
- “local knowledge” -> where is the need for (things) & how to transport them from the border?
(things = solar panels? radios? antennas? other tech equipment)
- techies: to donate “gear” that can be repurposed
- local hackerspaces -> to be source of tech-support to journalists
- hackerspaces outside -> to contribute knowledge & build alternative infra
- security / activist experts: help with writing the document e.g. https://pad.riseup.net/p/drafting-labs-article-8-3
- media people: how to spread the information & knowledge, to reach those who need it
& https://www.techtotherescue.org/tech/tech-for-ukraine
- Free Press Unlimited is establishing support for journalists inside - and those who fled - Ukraine & Russia; & in sounding countries https://www.freepressunlimited.org/nl
- Inzamel…
- Measurements of Internet status / performance
- Hackerspaces open day, 26.3.
- https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/International_hackerspace_Open_day_2022
- “For this event we want to host & welcome, discuss, exchange, on a thematic question : Do biohackerspaces and hackerspaces have a role to play in welcoming refugees and exiles? “
- https://wiki.kaouenn-noz.fr/hors_les_murs:en_international_hackerspace_open_day_2022
- Publishing instruction on how to use “secure communications tools” (in progress)
https://pad.riseup.net/p/drafting-labs-article-8-3
- Diaries: https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/03/05/dispatches-from-the-place-of-imminence-by-svitlana-matviyenko-part-3/ (etc)
- a platform similar to “wikileaks” , for accepting anonymous reports : https://www.publeaks.nl/
- IP addresses (& domain names) will NOT be revoked:
IDEAS
- make a curated “gids” / “TV guide” for people to find independent news sources
- send instructions on how to make radio-receivers by reusing existing materials
- involve local hackerspaces :
- Amsterdam: TechInc, LAG, chaos.amsterdam
- Holland: HSNL /
Newest Links
https://wiki.techinc.nl/TacticalMediaRoom#Newest_News
Other links
https://www.techtotherescue.org/tech/tech-for-ukraine
https://dutchcloudcommunity.nl/community/cloud4ukraine/
https://www.ukrainians.nl/helpukraine/how-you-can-help/.
https://thenewstack.io/where-does-open-source-fit-into-russias-war-with-ukraine/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qkvnpp/the-brain-dump
https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/war-and-anarchists-anti-authoritarian-perspectives-in-ukraine
Digital Security Assessment and List of Localized Tools: https://www.localizationlab.org/blog/2022/2/27/digital-security-assessment- amp-list-of-localized-tools-in-ukrainian
& Ukrainian https://www.localizationlab.org/blog/2022/2/26/tools-and-resources-localized-in-ukrainian
https://www.platformer.news/p/the-internet-is-a-force-multiplier?s=r
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/wartime-bad-time-mess-internet
