[icann-see] Call for collaboration: Youth project on 'Digitised security' in Bosnia and Herzegovina (24.04-30.04.2017)

[Michael Oghia]

Hi Desiree,

Great news, thank you for the update. I hope to see you in Mexico

Best,
-Michael

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Desiree Miloshevic <miloshevic at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Michael
>
> Thank you for bringing this event up to the list.
>
>
> The ISOC Chapter Serbia has been in touch with the organisers and we are
> in talks how to best support their event and have another one in Serbia.
>
> It would be great if other organisations would join too.
>
> Best regards
>
> Desiree Miloshevic
> --
>
> On 28 Oct 2016, at 14:15, Michael Oghia <mike.oghia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I want to bring the following email to your attention. I will summarize it
> as best as I can so that if you would like to have more information, you
> can follow up with Anya (CCd).
>
> Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe is hosting a youth
> event in Sarajevo in April 2017 focusing on cybersecurity, privacy, and
> mass surveillance. While they have secured quite a bit of funding already
> from the Council of Europe, they are currently looking for local partners
> as well as speakers and contributors. Partners could provide funding and/or
> non-fiscal resources such as providing space, equipment, or volunteers.
>
> *Vlada: *Would this be something that Diplo may want to contribute to?
>
> *Lorena and Martin:* Would NERDY and/or EuroDIG be interested in
> assisting in some fashion as well?
>
> For more information, contact Anya Orlova at: annnyanka at gmail.com. Aya
> and I met last year at the IGF, and we are both members of the Youth
> Coalition on Internet Governance (YCIG). She and I are also both ISOC
> ambassadors this year to the IGF.
>
> Feel free to forward this message to a relevant contact or spread it among
> your networks as well.
>
> Best,
> -Michael
> __________________
>
> Michael J. Oghia
> iGmena <http://igmena.org/> communications manager
> 2016 ISOC IGF returning ambassador
> Independent #netgov consultant & editor
>
> Belgrade, Serbia
> Skype: mikeoghia
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Anya Orlova <annnyanka at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 7:05 PM
> Subject: Call for collaboration: Youth project on 'Digitised security' in
> Bosnia and Herzegovina (24.04-30.04.2017)
> Cc: Petra Škuljević <petra at cdnee.org>, Julian Hauser <
> julian at julianhauser.com>
>
>
> Dear Michael,
>
> First, I'd like to thank you for your interest in our youth event that
> will take place in *Sarajevo in April 2017* and will bring together 40
> young people.
>
> Now let me briefly introduce myself and our organisation. My name is Anya
> and I am a member of the digital [x] working group
> <https://www.cdnee.org/working-groups/digitalx/> of Cooperation and
> Development Network Eastern Europe (please see more about CDN here -
> www.cdnee.org). In December last year we organised a webinar
> <http://digital-x.org/2015/12/first-digital-x-webinar-a-success/> on the
> use of the security discourse to restrict our online rights, and after it's
> success we decided to organize an educational seminar on the same topic.
>
> We applied to the Council of Europe with the project "Digitised security -
> How to read the surveillance discourse and fight it!" in Bosnia and
> Herzegovina, 24.04.2017 – 30.04.2017. The Council of Europe has decided to
> financially support our project with EUR 22,400. Our total estimated budget
> for this project is EUR 30,535 we are looking for co-funding of the amount
> of EUR 8,135. In the attached file you can see our detailed project budget
> breakdown. If you know of any institutions, foundations or organisations
> that might be willing of supporting us, we would greatly appreciate that
> information. Support does not need to be financial, it can also be in kind
> - for example pay sending a speaker and covering their expenses.
>
>
> *We are currently in the phase of looking for local partners -
> individuals, digital activists, collaborative and organisations who would
> like to join us in this event either as co-organiser, contributor, speaker
> or participant.*
> Please see below (and in the attachment) a more detailed information about
> our project and feel free to ask us - Julian, Petra and me - should you
> have any questions, suggestions or ideas. Please feel free to share this
> call further.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Anya, Julian and Petra
>
> digital [x] working group
> Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe (CDN)
> https://digita-x.org
> www.cdnee.org
>
>
> *Project Description *
>
> Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe is working on
> supporting its members and Member Organisations through its projects and
> initiatives as well as engaging new members and collaborators to work
> together and network. The project 'Digitised security - How to read the
> surveillance discourse and fight it!' initiated by the digital [x] working
> group is directed at drawing attention of youth on tackling issues of
> digital security, digital literacy and uniting young people, activists,
> collaboratives and initiatives of the Eastern European and the Balkans
> region to work together and therefore fostering capacity building and
> networking in this field.
>
> Although the 'Digitised security' project was designed to take place in
> Bosnia and Herzegovina, the idea behind it is to attract young people,
> digital activists, youth organisations and organisations working in the
> field of advocacy of digital rights and freedoms from the whole region of
> Eastern Europe and the Balkans. This project has support from the political
> parties and Green MEPs of the European Parliament with a particular goal of
> creating an ambiance that would foster and support local initiatives and
> help to gather young activists and organisations to work together on the
> pending issue of digital security that we are facing today in the European
> context given the recent political and social climate and the relevance of
> cybersecurity and mass-surveillance in this respect.
>
> There are a number of activists and small organisations working on
> advocacy of digital rights and freedoms in Eastern Europe and in the
> Balkans. However there are not that many opportunities for collaboration
> and networking, in particular when it comes to connecting digital rights
> and hacker activists with activists from other spheres, for example the
> Green movement. digital [x] believes that by joining forces and working
> together we can achieve much more.
>
> Greens are well-established in this region and can serve as an entry
> platform to political debates for the individuals and organisations working
> in the sphere of digital rights advocacy. Moreover, collaborating with
> other organisations from Eastern Europe fosters exchange of good
> practice and can be of help in online campaigning.
>
> This project can furthermore be a step towards collaboration between the
> EU and Eastern European/Balkan region. Establishing a more solid and
> sustainable cooperation is important as the Balkans and Eastern Europe are
> affected by EU legislation, both in the course of formal accession
> processes as well as simply through the fact that the EU is a standard
> setter in digital rights legislation in Europe as whole. It is crucial that
> voices from the Balkans and Eastern Europe are heard in the EU -- firstly
> because they bring a new perspective and voice concerns that stem from a
> different socio-economic and political background.
>
> *Today our project partners and collaborators are:*
>
> - Jan Philipp Albrecht, MEP, European Parliament; Group of the
> Greens/European Free Alliance
> - Julia Reda MEP, European Parliament; (Greens/EFA, Germany)
> - Terry Reintke, MEP, European Parliament; (Die Grune | EFA)
> - Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG)
> - Share Foundation (Serbia)
> - Young Pirates
> - Zostone
> - One world platform
> - Prishtina hackerspace
>
> We are also planning to reach out to:
>
> - Panoptikon (https://panoptykon.org/)
> - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
> - Digitale Gesellschaft (CH and DE)
>
>
> *What is this project about?*
> In the past few years legislators have advanced and implemented numerous
> laws that threaten our digital rights - such laws span the gamut from
> national legislation on data retention and online surveillance to trade
> agreements that affect intellectual property legislation and whose
> enforcement often entails surveillance. The extension of surveillance and
> censorship online is something felt in Europe as a whole, making the fact
> that those policy decisions are often only discussed in expert circles all
> the more disquieting.
>
> Currently the major argument for mass surveillance stems from data's
> alleged usefulness in combating terrorism. Many countries, from France to
> Russia, have recently legalised surveillance of their citizens. However, it
> is far from clear whether increased online surveillance helps fight
> terrorism, and a false sense of security might actually increase the real
> danger and move our attention away from terrorism's root causes such as war
> and poverty. Moreover, mass surveillance restricts our human rights in
> crucial ways, endangering individual freedom as well as our common
> institutions such as democracy and media.
>
> The effects of surveillance do not know borders: data streams, even
> between neighbours, often cross multiple countries, online communities are
> often transnational, and surveillance technology produced in the West is
> used by authoritarian regimes the world over.
>
>
> *What will we do and why?*
> We will organise a 6-day long seminar in Bosnia and Herzegovina that will
> gather 40 young people from all Europe to discuss this topic. The topic is
> highly relevant to youth across all of Europe. Youth activists are often
> the first to experience restrictions of rights even when they are not the
> professed targets of the laws. Second, the internet is used by a majority
> of young people in daily interactions and are essential in modern
> collaborative work.
>
> The debates surrounding online freedoms often focus on diffuse fears,
> which are instrumentalized to push for restrictions of civic and human
> rights. Therefore we want to gather young people from all over Europe to
> analyse the discourse with which restrictions of our human rights are
> justified. We want to look at the arguments used, gain an understanding of
> the underlying facts and learn how youth can actively engage themselves in
> public discussions and defend their interests. To this end we want to work
> on participants' advocacy and campaigning skills in the field of digital
> rights.
>
> Additionally, we want to give youth the ability to independently protect
> their rights online. We will therefore develop participants' skills and
> encourage them to use software that protects from surveillance and
> overcomes censorship. We will develop a toolkit on both the theoretical and
> practical aspects of this seminar, which will help with the achievement of
> the aims after the seminar.
>
> We hope that this seminar will strengthen the potential of the Internet as
> a real driver of democracy and human rights.
>
> *Project summary*
>
> Project name: Digitised security - How to read the surveillance discourse
> and fight it!
>
> Duration: 6 working days
>
> Date: 24 th – 30 th April 2017
>
> Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
>
> Topic: Digital rights, internet policy, security, surveillance, data
> protection, digitalisation
>
> Organiser: Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe, Youth
> movement Revolt,
>
> European Youth Foundation
>
> Target age: 18-30
>
> Number of participants: 40
>
> <Digitised Security project description and budget.pdf>
>
> <Digitised Security project description and budget.doc>
>
>
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