Today the Choke Point Project and many other projects such as @torproject @GlobaLeaks  @OpenObservatory @Info_Activism are taking part in the EU Workshop on FIRE and the “No Disconnect Strategy” in Brussels. Here’s the official description: Introduction The Internet is now much more than it was ever envisaged to be. Rather than simply a  communication system, it has become [...]

The ChokePoint Project are excited to be participating in the Rio de Janeiro Human Rights and Technology Conference: The Rio de Janeiro Human Rights and Technology Conference (RightsCon: Rio), hosted by Access in partnership with the Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Center for Technology & Society, will examine and explore how the information and communications technology (ICT) [...]

We have applied for funding from the Knight Foundation to build a Global Censorship Monitoring System. We have an urgent request of your help to get this project through to the second round, but there are only 7 days left! Please click on this link and click on the “like” button and repost where possible. [...]

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 [...]