TacticalMediaRoom/2022-04-13

Discussed

1. What are we?
2. The public events

Updates

We get request of ppl can became a member from russia, ukraina - if they can contribute - they want to join the meeting we have never discussed the membership ppl think we are a movement, a group.

translation building an university, we have now mentorship we have about 60 ppl pared mentor project is already happening, we have resource list that ppl use to find places to work and practical information includes russian and belarussians university is more long term - we have contact with the minister in Riga. not in amsterdam. uva is involved,

pls share the links

-- waag working on more structure for this. we

talking about the digital infra

caspar

Iwill come with a text about our main thoughts in the program we need to reach out to our audience how we are going to get public? if we have a text by tomorrow we can start to invite ppl 20:00 to 22:00 presentations and handson work ask ppl to bring their own laptop. idea is to do on the first floor

we have this meeting to connect and we will have soup - the mirror kitchen we will have also a presentation

we will start to explain ppl who we are --

-- 2 big topics

1- what are we? 2- the public events

if something is already happening we support what is aready happening\

we made a text about what we are and shared with you. if you have something to add / change. tomorrow we will use it to go public use the text as much as you can we mention most of the organisation, but you can add your.

we define what this group and everybody can invite other, what makes this group grow in a slower manner. there is the signal group,

second part we can use the public program to helps us to define what we are learning toghether as we go it is about what are learning --

we should be explicit we dont want to be a love peace group that bring uk, belarussian and russian toghether the fact that we decided not to limit the scope to ukraine,

-- the question is how can ppl contribute? it is a challenge , but also an opportunity if it is too dangerous, maybe if in a public is dangerous. i am looking for a form to facilitate the security not allowed to make a live recording maybe events that are online and not online it would be good if someone write a good report about it ,like a blog post - this for the public events another event would be only online events

make clear it is a Dutch initiative event / it is a support platform / we are not telling ppl what to do

everywhere things are happening maybe at some point we can connect it is a dutch group

we can get people from everywhere

Requests

We expect in 2 years the Russian firewall to become more impenetrable. We are still looking for a coordinator with technical expertise + creativity to make sure people in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, etc, can access information. This should be an institutionalized and continuous support.

Kris is increasingly getting requests from journalists from Russia asking for help to come here.

Would like to invite Russian philosophers and journalist and would like to discuss whom to expect in the event as speaker and as public

Also, need to discuss what channels, how we co-work.

Website inzamelplekken.nl -> we are looking for volunteers. Also making a job description for an intern, but don't have a budget yet.

We have a project on data - public and social media and how media is evidence on the court. We need to hire a researcher from Ukraine and make this bigger, more substantial. There is not funding yet.

We sent an email for people asking if they want to work in the workshop about security (?)

Offers

Mark (?) is writing for a grant about the evolution of extremism and is collecting letters of organisations against extremism. Maybe some of these organisations can be of interest for this group.

we did small research about the polish opinion on the war on ukraina

Kalenski can link us with other researchers of disinformation across Europe.

M is speaking with Stichting Doen, and asked if they could support the activities, not for this group, but for the initiatives in this group.

We need to be more clear of what we need, If we do need more support, the city of Adam may support a lot.

Events

Low-key public event. Speaking with Kalensky as he is already organising disinformation researches and about understanding and how to counter this. We try to have 3 guest and 3 perceptions

Wendsday 20th

1. The meeting with this group start at 18:00
2. We will have some soup,
3. Presentation
4. Works on groups

program

• what is misinformation
• what is that in the daily life
• how to connect with ppl in dangerous environments

All members of the group should start inviting people. The press release can go out tomorrow (made by M+G) Text will be a brief introduction, we don't need to have all the names of the presentors yet.