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

Sat Oct 29 11:42:53 CEST 2016

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
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> On 28 Oct 2016, at 14:15, Michael Oghia <mike.oghia at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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
> __________________
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> Michael J. Oghia
> iGmena 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 of Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe (please see more about CDN here - www.cdnee.org). In December last year we organised a webinar 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.
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> 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. 
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> - 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:
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> - 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> Duration: 6 working days
> 
> Date: 24 th – 30 th April 2017
> 
> Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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> Topic: Digital rights, internet policy, security, surveillance, data protection, digitalisation
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> Organiser: Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe, Youth movement Revolt,
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> European Youth Foundation
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> Target age: 18-30
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> Number of participants: 40
> 
> <Digitised Security project description and budget.pdf>
> <Digitised Security project description and budget.doc>
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