Hi everyone,
Don't miss out on your chance to attend WikiConference North America this weekend. It is co-hosted with OpenStreetMap and will run from Friday, Nov. 11 to Sunday, Nov. 13. The conference is fully remote and free to all. See link to register [1] and link to the full programme [2].
The WMF Global Advocacy team will be hosting two conversations on Saturday, November 12 (details below).
Additional programme highlights include: A tagging party to stump OpenStreetMap; EFF Director of Investigations demonstrating how his team is combining public records, satellite imagery, and virtual reality to reveal the locations of surveillance towers; OpenStreetMap and Pokemon GO; Future of North American Wikimedia affiliates.
-------- "Wikimedia sued the National Security Agency for mass surveillance. Now what?" [3] Saturday, Nov. 12 @ 13:00 EST Panel discussion featuring * Sarah Taitz, staff attorney, ACLU National Security Project * Patrick Toomey, Deputy Director of ACLU National Security Project * Alex Abdo, Litigation Director, Knight First Amendment Institute * James Buatti, Legal Director, Wikimedia Foundation -------- "Reclaiming the right to privacy, the bottom-up way: grassroots activism tactics" [4] Saturday, Nov. 12 @ 13:45 EST Panel discussion featuring * Evan Greer, Director, Fight for the Future * Micah Epstein, Founding member, Coveillance Collective * Dr. Matt Mahmoudi, Researcher & Adviser, AmnestyTech * Jennifer Lee, Technology & Liberty Project Manager, ACLU-WA
We hope to see you there! Ziski & the WMF Global Advocacy Team ____ [1] https://pretix.eu/openstreetmapus/wcna-mappingusa/ [2] https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2022/Schedule [3] https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions:2022/Wikimedia_sued_the_National... [4] https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions:2022/Reclaiming_the_right_to_pri...