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Revision as of 10:16, 23 May 2020
- Digital rights are the new human rights -- GreenPolicy360
2020 --- Enter the Second Decade of the 21st Century
Issues of Today's Connected World? The 'digital divide', 'net neutrality', 'mass surveillance', and that's just the beginning
Digital rights are the issue of the 21st century, a global network connecting the world as it becomes a 21st century community
Digital Rights & Online Privacy
Privacy on the Net? Online Rights? A Great Challenge of Our Times
May 2020
(US News)
On the Wyden-Daines Amendment to the PATRIOT Act
Pressure Mounts in Congress to Limit 'Spying'
Questioning the US Patriot Act with its broad surveillance and investigative powers
Re: Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act
"A Deeply Concerning threat to civil liberties, privacy, and legal rights"
The future of the net, privacy rights, and open democracy at risk
- https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2020-05-22-tell-nancy-pelosi-to-save-internet-privacy-before/
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Manipulating the Facts: Mis-information and New Journalism Attempting to Identify and Correct Mis- and Dis-information
SJS/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: PolitiFact has become a global project, nation by nation growing to address online rights and the many issues of reporting facts, confronting online disinformation and multiple issues on social media, as well a protecting digital rights and democratic and human rights.
The future development of the internet, globally, within and among nations, is a project with profound consequences.
PolitiFact, a project of the Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida, has created and continues to help power up a global fact-checking movement, monitoring news on the internet and social media, politics and business.
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The Databases Know Who You Are, They're Following You
Going Shopping Online? A Story of an Typical Shopper:
I Visited 47 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me
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Voting Machines, E-Voting: Hacking and Fixes
Jennifer Cohn on digital voting machines in the US -- politics and vulnerabilities
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The Great Hack
Netflix Original Documentary
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July/June 2019
(Video) Amazon employee directly confronts Jeff Bezos over his inaction on climate change
Facebook Knows You (and your digital history is for sale)
Privacy? What privacy? You're ours...
Database marketing and targeting is all about you
May/April 2019
Manipulating the Web ... What the Future Promises, More Manipulation
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/The_Problem_Beyond_Fake_News
Our platformed and algorithmically optimized world is vulnerable — to propaganda, to misinformation, to dark targeted advertising from foreign governments — so much so that it threatens to undermine a cornerstone of human discourse: the credibility of fact...
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Open Source, 25 Years Later: An Interview with Linus Torvalds
I used to think that some radical new and exciting OS would come around and supplant Linux some day (hey, back in 1994 I probably still thought that maybe Hurd would do it!), but it's not just that we've been doing this for a long time and are still doing very well, I've also come to realize that making a new operating system is just way harder than I ever thought. It really takes a lot of effort by a lot of people, and the strength of Linux—and open source in general, of course—is very much that you can build on top of the effort of all those other people.
So unless there is some absolutely enormous shift in the computing landscape, I think Linux will be doing quite well another quarter century from now. Not because of any particular detail of the code itself, but simply fundamentally, because of the development model and the problem space....
The traditional PC is obviously no longer quite the dominant thing it used to be. Even when you have one (and even when it's still running Windows or OS X), lots of people mainly interact with it through a web browser and a couple random apps. Of course, then there are the "workstation" users, which is kind of the desktop I was personally always envisioning. And while still important, it doesn't seem to drive the market the way the PC did back when. Powerful desktop machines seem to be mostly about development or gaming, or media editing. The "casual" desktop seems to have become more of a browser thing, and quite often it's just a tablet or a phone.
March 2019
The Internet Archive and Wayback Machine, More than History, Necessity
• http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190401-why-theres-so-little-left-of-the-early-internet
February 2019
Via the LA Times / Digital Rights, Digital Knowledge: Elsevier and the University of California
Open It Up, Academic Publishing and Open Access
January 2019
Citizen Lab - https://citizenlab.ca/
• https://citizenlab.ca/category/lab-news/
December 2018
Tech Workers Paid in Company Stock: They Use It to Agitate for Change
Former and current Amazon employees who received stock grants have used them to submit a shareholder proposal asking the company to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels...
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November / October 2018
Via Fast Company
Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web
This week, Berners-Lee will launch Inrupt, a startup that he has been building, in stealth mode, for the past nine months. Backed by Glasswing Ventures, its mission is to turbocharge a broader movement afoot, among developers around the world, to decentralize the web and take back power from the forces that have profited from centralizing it. In other words, it’s game on for Facebook, Google, Amazon. For years now, Berners-Lee and other internet activists have been dreaming of a digital utopia where individuals control their own data and the internet remains free and open. But for Berners-Lee, the time for dreaming is over.
“We have to do it now,” he says, displaying an intensity and urgency that is uncharacteristic for this soft-spoken academic. “It’s a historical moment.” Ever since revelations emerged that Facebook had allowed people’s data to be misused by political operatives, Berners-Lee has felt an imperative to get this digital idyll into the real world. In a post published this weekend, Berners-Lee explains that he is taking a sabbatical from MIT to work full time on Inrupt. The company will be the first major commercial venture built off of Solid, a decentralized web platform he and others at MIT have spent years building.
A Netscape for today’s internet
If all goes as planned, Inrupt will be to Solid what Netscape once was for many first-time users of the web: an easy way in. And like with Netscape, Berners-Lee hopes Inrupt will be just the first of many companies to emerge from Solid...
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August 2018
Disinformation, Misinformation and #DigitalRights: Limits of free speech
by Peter Van Buren
July 2018
"I was devastated."
Tim Berners-Lee has seen his creation debased by everything from fake news to mass surveillance.
For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it”... Berners-Lee was speaking about the future of the Internet.
June 2018
Network Earth, Planet Citizens Being Connected by a Global Internet
Read the latest (2018) annual statistics report (294-Page PDF Document).
GreenPolicy360's ecoOperatingSystem #eOS continues to evolve beyond-borders as an inter-relational network of networks...
Growth of the Internet and world-wide web, light and dark, is connecting and powering up #PlanetCitizens globally...
May 2018
General Data Protection Regulation / GDPR
Via The Guardian / New York Times / Forbes
Via TechCrunch / May 19
‘My Data Request’: How You Request Data About You
- https://mydatarequest.com/ - Request your personal data from 100+ companies
A practical guide to the European Union’s GDPR for American businesses
Via Recode / May 16
European Union digital privacy regulation begins on May 25, 2018.
American businesses operating or digitally serving customers in the EU must comply.
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General Data Protection Regulation
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.119.01.0001.01.ENG
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC
(Text with EEA relevance)
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April 2018
GreenPolicy360, hosted on the open MediaWiki platform
How do you view Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation’s relationships with the major platforms — Google, Facebook, and so on. How would you characterize it?
For the most part, we grew up independently from most of the major platforms that dominate today. If you look around the biggest ones, we predate, I think, all of them but Google. At least of the ones that trade in knowledge and information. We were created for a very different purpose at a different time. The web that we came into actually had a number of larger collaborative, non-commercialized early projects, some of which still exist, and some of which don’t, that were more community-driven. And we sort of are a legacy of the original spirit of the web, and that’s very much what the Wikimedia Foundation was created to do — to ensure that Wikipedia was preserved as a nonprofit entity, with respect for community governance, and in the public interest and in the public spirit...
Read the full interview. Important reflections and go-forward observations about digital rights and the global future of the Internet.
More on the differences between Wikipedia, Wikimedia, MediaWiki, and wiki
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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO-Founder Testifies before US Congress - April 2018
An Internet Snapshot - March 2018
"Surveillance Capitalism", Op-Ed via openDemocracy
Time for a VPN? Virtual Private Networks and Data Privacy
The Problem Beyond Fake News, How to Create Internet Integrity
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December 2017
November
- Op-Ed I'm on the FCC. Stop us from killing net neutrality -- http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rosenworcel-fcc-net-neutrality-repeal-20171122-story.html
- The Backlash Is Building Over the Plan to Gut Net Neutrality -- https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/backlash-building-over-plan-gut-net-neutrality-n823436
FCC Rollback of "Network Neutrality" Regulations
- An Open Letter to the FCC -- https://medium.com/@AGSchneiderman/an-open-letter-to-the-fcc-b867a763850a
- What Could Happen and How It Could Affect You / The New York Times -- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/technology/net-neutrality-repeal-questions.html
- Why the Courts Will Have to Save Net Neutrality -- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/opinion/courts-net-neutrality-fcc.html
- The FCC and Net Neutrality: Once Again, We Must Raise Our Voices -- https://shift.newco.co/the-fcc-and-net-neutrality-once-again-we-must-raise-our-voices-7c96fcb2f630 --
What to Expect -- https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/21/what-to-expect-fcc-net-neutrality-proposal/
Inside the FCC's plan to end net neutrality -- https://www.axios.com/net-neutrality-2511425288.html
Trump's FCC announces plans to kill net neutrality: The people want net neutrality, but FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, announced his plan to take it away from them. With this, you can expect to see your internet bills go up -- http://www.zdnet.com/article/trumps-fcc-announces-plans-to-kill-net-neutrality/
FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see and use -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/21/the-fcc-has-unveiled-its-plan-to-rollback-its-net-neutrality-rules/
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Internet Threats Today and On the Horizon
- "Whether it is winter that is coming, or a new spring, it is entirely in our hands so long as we prepare."
- Permalinks for Internet Exploits News/Reports
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- The Digital World, Free Software and Next Generation Internet
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Digital Rights in a Connected World
Digital Rights/OpenData OpenGov -- http://bit.ly/DigitalRightsLinks
Digital Rights Organizations @ GreenPolicy360
Digital Citizens - @ Wikipedia
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netizen
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_to_knowledge_movement
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Open_Access_Initiative
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethesda_Statement_on_Open_Access_Publishing
Factoid: "The number of devices online reached 12.5 billion in 2010
& will grow to 25 billion in 2015 and 50 billion by 2020." -- MIT
http://share.cisco.com/internet-of-things.html -- Cisco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Ecology_International
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Internet Access Worldwide
Online access is a fundamental right
UN Report declares Internet access a human right
Global Internet User Survey - 2012_Internet Society Internet Society
Report on Internet Freedom around the World_2014
- Freedom on the Net_2014
- Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls-Summary
- Tightening the Net: Full Report PDF
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Global Network Initiative - https://globalnetworkinitiative.org/
- Principles on Freedom of Expression and Privacy - https://globalnetworkinitiative.org//principles/index.php
- https://globalnetworkinitiative.org/sites/default/files/GNI_-_Principles_1_.pdf
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Members of European Digital Rights have joined forces to defend civil rights in the information society. Currently, 33 privacy and civil rights organisations have a membership. They are based or have offices in 19 different countries in Europe.
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Facts Count
Poynter Institute in St Petersburg, Florida is independent journalism in practice
- Poynter continues to provides 'best practices' for journalists/news organizations/writers
- With the launch of its PoliFact project, fact-checking has become a key best practice in an era of attacks on media and the press
Global Fact-Checking Projects in Countries around the World -- PolitiFact
PolitiFact has helped shape political fact-checking across the world...
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International Internet Access / Privacy / Digital Rights
In 2015 the European Parliament (EP), members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and assistants from throughout the political spectrum – European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR), European United Left, Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) and the Greens, European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) – participated in the individual, customised training sessions.
See the 'Training Menu' | https://www.bof.nl/home/english-bits-of-freedom/
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Then There Are We Digital Natives
'I'm a Millennial, I was born Digital, I'm the Gen Y Generation
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Security State and Big Data
Part 1 – "A hidden world, growing beyond control"
Part 2 – "National Security Inc."
Part 3 – "The secrets next door"
Top Secret America The Rise of the New American Security State” by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin
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Acting to Limit State Power
Report (2013-14) Liberty and Security in a Changing World
Transmittal Letter from the Report Group to the US President
Dear Mr. President:
We are honored to present you with the Final Report of the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. Consistent with your memorandum of August 27, 2013, our recommendations are designed to protect our national security and advance our foreign policy while also respecting our longstanding commitment to privacy and civil liberties, recognizing our need to maintain the public trust (including the trust of our friends and allies abroad), and reducing the risk of unauthorized disclosures. We have emphasized the need to develop principles designed to create strong foundations for the future. Although we have explored past and current practices, and while that exploration has informed our recommendations, this Report should not be taken as a general review of, or as an attempt to provide a detailed assessment of, those practices. Nor have we generally engaged budgetary questions (although some of our recommendations would have budgetary implications). We recognize that our forty-six recommendations, developed over a relatively short period of time, will require careful assessment by a wide range of relevant officials, with close reference to the likely consequences.
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Protecting the Right to Privacy.
The right to privacy is essential to a free and self-governing society. The rise of modern technologies makes it all the more important that democratic nations respect people’s fundamental right to privacy, which is a defining part of individual security and personal liberty.
Protecting Democracy, Civil Liberties, and the Rule of Law.
Free debate within the United States is essential to the long-term vitality of American democracy and helps bolster democracy globally. Excessive surveillance and unjustified secrecy can threaten civil liberties, public trust, and the core processes of democratic self-government. All parts of the government, including those that protect our national security, must be subject to the rule of law.
Promoting Prosperity, Security, and Openness in a Networked World.
The United States must adopt and sustain policies that support technological innovation and collaboration both at home and abroad. Such policies are central to economic growth, which is promoted in turn by economic freedom and spurring entrepreneurship. For this reason, the United States must continue to establish and strengthen international norms of Internet freedom and security.
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New Definitions of National Security
GreenPolicy360 GreenLinks | permalink
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Digital Rights | Open Data - Open Gov
Open Forum/Twitter
- #OpenAccess - https://twitter.com/hashtag/openaccess?src=hash
- #OpenData - https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpenData?src=hash
- #DigitalRights - https://twitter.com/hashtag/DigitalRights?src=hash
- #InfoSec - https://twitter.com/hashtag/InfoSec?src=hash
- #Cybersecurity - https://twitter.com/hashtag/cybersecurity?src=hash
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- Alliance for Affordable Internet - http://a4ai.org/
- ArcGIS Open Data Platform - https://opendata.arcgis.com/about
- ASPI Cyber Policy - http://cyberpolicy.aspi.org.au/
- Center for Data Innovation - http://www.datainnovation.org/ - http://www.datainnovation.org/2014/04/the-economic-impact-of-open-data/
- Center for Democracy and Technology - https://cdt.org/
- (FB) https://www.facebook.com/CenDemTech
- (TW) https://twitter.com/CenDemTech
- (Wiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Democracy_and_Technology
- Code for America - http://codeforamerica.org/issues/openness/
- CommonFutures EU/Int'l - http://CommonFutures.eu/the-future-of-open-possibly-the-largest-open-network-in-the-world
- Creative Commons - http://CreativeCommons.org
- Data.gov, US Government open data - http://www.data.gov/
- 124K+ data sets as of 2015 - http://www.data.gov/metrics
- EcoInforma http://www.data.gov/ecosystems/ecoinforma/
- Dbpedia - http://dbpedia.org/About
- Decent Security - http://www.decentsecurity.com/blog/
- Digital Bill of Rights - http://jameslosey.com/post/79356515492/an-overview-of-calls-for-rights-or-principles-for-the
- E Pluribus Unum, Dispatches on Open Government and Technology - http://e-pluribusunum.org/
- Electronic Frontier Foundation - https://www.eff.org/
- (RSS) https://www.eff.org/rss
- (Wiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation
- (Parker Higgins-EFF) https://twitter.com/xor
- (recommended by EFF)
- Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) - https://www.epic.org/
- Energy and Environment Legislation Tracking Database (US) - http://NCSL.org/issues-research/energyhome/energy-environment-legislation-tracking-database.aspx
- eQualit.ie - https://equalit.ie/equalit-ie-manifesto/
- Advancing the International Bill of Human Rights - http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Compilation1.1en.pdf
- Fact-Checking Projects - http://www.poynter.org/2016/there-are-96-fact-checking-projects-in-37-countries-new-census-finds/396256/
- Beginning with PolitiFact, the original project at Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolitiFact.com
- http://www.poynter.org/about-the-international-fact-checking-network/
- http://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/
- http://reporterslab.org/category/fact-checking/#article-1384
- http://reporterslab.org/global-fact-checking-up-50-percent/
- Fight for the Future - http://www.fightforthefuture.org/
- Free Software Foundation / GNU - http://www.fsf.org/ - https://www.gnu.org/home.en.html
- Freedom of Information Requests/Government Attic (US) - http://GovernmentAttic.org
- Freedom of the Press Foundation - https://freedom.press/ - https://freedom.press/about/board
- (TW) https://twitter.com/FreedomofPress
- (FreedomPress Organizations) https://freedom.press/organizations
- Freedom Online Coalition - http://www.freedomonline.ee/ - http://www.freedomonline.ee/about-us/Freedom-online-coalition
- Freenet - https://freenetproject.org/
- Fundar - http://fundar.org.mx/
- Future of the Internet (blog) - http://futureoftheinternet.org/blog/
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation
- Github and Open Data update - https://github.com/project-open-data - http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/catch-my-diff-githubs-new-feature-means-big-things-for-open-data/283673/
- Global Network Initiative - https://globalnetworkinitiative.org/
- Principles on Freedom of Expression and Privacy - https://globalnetworkinitiative.org//principles/index.php
- https://globalnetworkinitiative.org/sites/default/files/GNI_-_Principles_1_.pdf
- Global Open Data Initiative - http://GlobalOpenDataInitiative.org
- Global Partners - http://www.global-partners.co.uk/
- Global Voices - http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/topics/digital-activism/
- GNU / Free Software Foundation - https://www.gnu.org/home.en.html - http://www.fsf.org/
- GNU Project - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project
- Government Accountability Project - http://www.whistleblower.org/
- Government Lab - http://thegovlab.org/
- GovFuturesLab - Reimagining governance for an age of planetary challenges and human responsibility
- (FB) https://Facebook.com/govfutures
- App4Gov (TW) https://Twitter.com/App4Gov
- GovLoop (US) training/social media/open gov - https://www.govloop.com/
- GovTrack - https://www.Govtrack.us/
- Information Technology and Innovation Foundation - http://www.itif.org/
- Institute for the Future - http://iftf.org/govfutures
- Internet.org "Connecting the World" - https://info.internet.org/en/
- Internet Archive - Wayback Machine - https://archive.org/
- Internet Bill of Rights / Internet Rights and Principles Coalition - http://internetrightsandprinciples.org/site/
- Internet Freedom Festival (IFF)
- Internet Governance Project - http://www.internetgovernance.org/
- Internet Society - http://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/mission
- IT for Change (India) - http://www.itforchange.net/
- Linked Data - http://linkeddata.org/
- Mobile Commons - https://www.mobilecommons.com/about/
- Mozilla Foundation Webmaker Tools - https://webmaker.org/en-US/tools
- New Media Rights - http://www.newmediarights.org/
- Online Magna Carta - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/12/online-magna-carta-berners-lee-web [1]
- Open Access Publishing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access
- Open Congress (U.S.) - https://www.opencongress.org/
- Open Data Institute UK-Int'l - http://TheODI.org/about-us - http://TheGuardian.com/public-leaders-network/2013/oct/22/open-data-institute-summit-gavin-starks
- Open Data movement_Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Data
- Open Data Research Network - http://opendataresearch.org/
- http://opendataresearch.org/emergingimpacts
- http://opendataresearch.org/content/2014/646/towards-common-methods-assessing-open-data-workshop-report
- Open Data - World Bank - http://data.worldbank.org/
- OpenDemocracy - https://www.opendemocracy.net/about
- https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties
- https://www.opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights
- (TW) https://twitter.com/opendemocracy
- Open Government Initiative (US) - http://www.whitehouse.gov/open
- Open Government in Practice - https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24435672M/Open_Government
- Open Government Partnership - International - http://OpenGovPartnership.org
- Open Institute - http://openinstitute.com/
- Open Knowledge Foundation Lab - http://okfn.org/
- (Blog) PublicBodies.org - http://blog.okfn.org/2013/07/09/introducing-open-knowledge-foundation-labs/
- Open Rights Group - https://www.openrightsgroup.org/
- Open Science - http://opensciencefederation.com/
- Open Secrets/Center for Responsive Politics - http://www.opensecrets.org/
- Open Source @Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
- Open Source Ecology - http://opensourceecology.org/ - http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/
- Open Source Hardware (wiki) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_hardware
- Open Standards Principles (UK) - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-principles/open-standards-principles
- Open State Foundation - http://www.openstate.eu/
- Open Technology Institute/New America Foundation - http://newamerica.org/oti/
- OpenGov Foundation - http://OpenGovFoundation.org
- OpenGov Hub - https://twitter.com/OpenGovHub
- OpenMedia International - https://openmedia.org/
- OpenNet Initiative - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/opennet
- Peer 2 Peer-P2P Foundation - http://p2pfoundation.net/
- Personal Democracy Forum/Media - https://personaldemocracy.com/
- Civic Hall - http://civichall.org/
- Piwik analytics - http://piwik.org/
- Privacy Rights in the Digital Age (Published 2016)
- Project on Government Oversight - http://www.pogo.org/
- PublicAgenda - http://PublicAgenda.org
- Public Resource Org ("Making Government Information More Accessible") - https://public.resource.org/
- RDF Standards - http://W3.org/RDF
- Reform Government Surveillance - https://www.reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/
- Research Data Sharing without Barriers - https://RD-Alliance.org
- Reset the Net - https://www.resetthenet.org/
- SafeGov - http://www.safegov.org/
- Save the Internet (US) - http://www.savetheinternet.com/sti-home
- Schneier on Security - https://www.schneier.com/about.html
- Software Freedom Law Center - https://www.softwarefreedom.org/
- SpiderOak - https://spideroak.com/
- State Decoded - http://StateDecoded.com
- Sunlight Foundation - http://sunlightfoundation.com/
- (FB) https://www.facebook.com/sunlightfoundation
- (G+) https://plus.google.com/+sunlightfoundation/posts
- (TW) https://twitter.com/sunfoundation
- Measuring the Impact of Open Data
- Surveillance Studies Centre - http://www.sscqueens.org/ - http://www.surveillance-studies.net/
- The Constituent (US) - https://The-Constituent.com
- Thoughtworks - http://www.thoughtworks.com/
- UN/United Nations Promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism - https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/15/un-investigator-report-condemns-mass-surveillance/
- US Gov-EPA Databases - http://Water.EPA.gov/aboutow/owow/data.cfm
- VYPR VPN - http://www.goldenfrog.com/vyprvpn
- Web We Want (World Wide Web Foundation) - http://webfoundation.org/2013/12/announcing-the-web-we-want/ - https://webwewant.org/
- WebTAP / Web Transparency & Accountability Project (Princeton University) - https://webtap.princeton.edu/
- Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation
- Jimmy Wales / Founder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales
- Wikiversity - https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page
- World Summit on the Information Society +10/ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Summit_on_the_Information_Society
- Worldwide Web Consortium - http://www.w3.org/
- WWW Origins-Foundation, established by World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, "devoted to all people having access to the Web" - WebFoundation.org
- March 2017 Open Letter from Berners-Lee on Threats to the Web
- 1) "We’ve lost control of our personal data"; 2) "It’s too easy for misinformation to spread on the web"; 3) "Political advertising online needs transparency and understanding"
- We must work together with web companies to strike a balance that puts a fair level of data control back in the hands of people.
- We must fight against government over-reach in surveillance laws, including through the courts if necessary.
- We must push back against misinformation. We urgently need to close the “internet blind spot” in the regulation of political campaigning.
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