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!
WHEN the Egyptian authorities realised protesters were using the internet to organise themselves in January, they came up with a simple solution: in an instant they disconnected the nation, cutting off anti-government dissidents from an invaluable resource. The outage inspired James Burke and Chris Pinchen – both members of the P2P Foundation - to begin work on the ChokePoint [...]
As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, we’re digging down into how information will be displayed on the this site. Gustaf provided a list of incident types and our graphic designer Simon Scheiber has been busy on a series of icons which simply and gracefully represent them. Above is the latest iteration. Thanks to My Trinh [...]
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Choke Point Project Ars Update from Choke Point Project on Vimeo. James and myself are in Linz at the moment to take part in the Ars Electonica Festival 2011 where the ChokePoint Project has won the [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant. Here is the video we’ve made for the festival, explaining the background to the [...]
As we dig down into the nitty gritty of what the ChokePoint Project site will be like (image above – early design iteration) and how information will be displayed, we are clarifying the types on incident that need to be reported. Gustaf has created this list of incident types and definitions: List of incident types: [...]
image source: Renesys blog This analysis from the Reneys blog graphically portrays the problems of interpreting Chokepoints. Read the whole post for an excellent appraisal of the current situation in Libya. For several months, our picture of the Libyan Internet has been essentally static. The national connection to the Internet consists of 16 blocks [...]
As we wrote some time ago, “As we’ve been talking to so many people about the project, we have also come to realise that there is a need for offline education about what the Internet is and the issues around it”, and Pau got to work on designing workshops for that purpose. Here’s an update [...]
