From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal  

We’ve spent the week at the 28C3, the 28th Chaos Communication Congress, in Berlin,  meeting inspiring people, discovering projects and looking for information, advice and help. The 28C3 is the perfect place to do this as it is: an annual four-day conference on technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a [...]

  Finally, a release! Above is a screenshot of our first, very beta release of euhackathon.chokepointproject.net It was put together for the 1st EUhackathon held in Brussels on November 8th & 9th 2011. It’s a prototype, a proof of concept. Here’s the ‘About’ from the release site: What we did: We built this test version [...]

We were wondering what non-US citizens can do in a situation like the current one with SOPA, where decisions taken in the US can affect Internet users worldwide. So we asked on twitter and here are some responses we received. If you have any ideas please leave a comment! View the story “What can people [...]

James will be in Rio de Janeiro on December 2nd presenting ChokePoint Project as part of the CulturaDigital.Br Festival Meanwhile the development team are hard at work on the website and workshops and Ruben is preparing his presentation for the 28C3 in Berlin at the end of December.

We’ll be presenting ChokePoint Project at nits digitals ’11 in Vic, Catalonia, Spain on  Thursday, November 17th at 22:00. Entrance is free. Now in its 11 year, nits digitals is a festival of digital expression and after the ChokePoint presentation there will be live music. Hope to see you there

   geeks in the EU parliament!                                                          At the Google office in Brussels   so with bleary eyes we’re getting down to #h4t EUhackathon day 2… Yesterday the [...]

Right now, we’re taking part in the first EUhackathon for Transparency at the Google offices in Brussels ably assisted by Florian and Simon who have joined us for the duration of the event (and hopefully more ).  The EUhackathon is based on a call for application that was issued on 5 September 2011 to all [...]

  We’ll be running a workshop at the Impakt Festival in Utrecht on Friday 4th November 15:00-17:00 The workshop will show people how the Internet works, including its underlying structures. Exploring themes such as privacy, data security, civil rights in a digital environment, it will give anyone attending a foundational basis with which to understand [...]

Video made by Österreichischer Rundfunk for the Ars Electronica gala presentation. Uploaded with permission from ORF. The video is in German – if anybody wants to translate it into English for us, we’ll be mega-grateful!