Clear and Present Danger: Attempts to Change Internet Governance and Implications for Press Freedom. Tuesday, June 26, 2012 The Center for International Media Assistance at the National Endowment for Democracy held a panel discussion on Read a summary of the event here >> Watch a video recording of the event below: In November, the United Nations will organize its seventh annual Internet Governance Forum in Azerbaijan, which Freedom House rates as Partly Free on its Freedom on the Net 2011 survey.
One month later, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a United Nations agency, will hold a meeting of world governments that will include proposals touching on Internet regulation. Broadcasters Locking Up the Public Domain, Day 1, 2 and 3. GrantSolutions. Javascript for date formatting GrantSolutions-4.7.5.11 4/14/2014 Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs Joint Request for Statements of Interest: Internet Freedom Programs Disclaimer: This a global call for statements of interest; program proposals need not be restricted to the NEA region.
Notes: DRL and NEA strongly urge applicants to register with either www.grantsolutions.gov or www.grants.gov immediately to request a username and password. It may take up to a week to register, and registration is required before a SOI can be submitted. Find Grant Opportunities - Opportunity Synopsis. Request for Statements of Interest: Internet Freedom Programs. Note: The deadline for this Request for Proposals has passed.
Department of State Public Notice Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Request for Proposals: Democracy, Human Rights, and Rule of Law in the Near East Region. The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) announces a Request for Proposals from organizations interested in submitting proposals for projects that promote democracy, human rights, and rule of law in the Near East region. Advancing Freedom and Democracy Reports 2010. U.S.
Government Support for Democracy and Human Rights The long-term security of the United States depends on our unwavering support for the expansion of democracy and human rights abroad. Free The Press: Supporting Journalists Under Duress. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Journalists are being silenced around the world.
In too many places, they are imprisoned, attacked, intimidated, disappeared, exiled or murdered for trying to report the news or exercise their freedom of expression. In the weeks leading up to World Press Freedom Day on May 3, the U.S. Department of State highlighted emblematic threats to journalists while continuing to call on all governments to protect the universal human right to freedom of expression. SOCIAL MEDIA “TACTICAL INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION”: Spying and Propaganda using Facebook, Twitter. By Julie Lévesque Global Research, February 15, 2012 A new study by the Mediterranean Council for Intelligence Studies’ (MCIS) 2012 Intelligence Studies Yearbook points to the use of social media as “the new cutting edge in open-source tactical intelligence collection”.
IntelNews.org’s Joseph Fitsanakis, who co-authored the study, reports: We explain that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and a host of other social networking platforms are increasingly viewed by intelligence agencies as invaluable channels of information acquisition. We base our findings on three recent case studies, which we believe highlight the intelligence function of social networking. People Power 2.0. The force of laughter: Graffiti on a wall in Tripoli represents the Libyan leader, Colonel Qaddafi, as a fleeing rat.
After weeks of skirmishes in the Nafusa Mountains southwest of Tripoli, Sifaw Twawa and his brigade of freedom fighters are at a standstill. It’s a mid-April night in 2011, and Twawa’s men are frightened. Lightly armed and hidden only by trees, they are a stone’s throw from one of four Grad 122-millimeter multiple-rocket launchers laying down a barrage on Yefren, their besieged hometown.
These weapons can fire up to 40 unguided rockets in 20 seconds. Press_Release_on_Downloadable_Media_Survey261.pdf (application/pdf Object) Chief: Drones 'certainly' coming to skies over Beltway. Prince William County Police Chief Charlie Deane and Fairfax County Police Chief David Rohrer. (WTOP/Paul D. Shinkman) Full "Ask the Chief" live blog below.
US develops 'panic button' for democracy activists. Internet 'Cloaking Device': Why Crooks and Cops Both Love TOR. Until it was busted this week, an Internet drug ring doing business in 34 countries, all 50 states and the District of Columbia, eluded law enforcement by using TOR, an encrypted computer network developed for--and used by--the federal government.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California in Los Angeles says eight of the ring's kingpins—six from the U.S. and one each from Argentina and the Netherlands—have now been arrested. All face federal drug trafficking and money laundering charges. U.S. funding tech firms that help Mideast dissidents evade government censors. The Obama administration may not be lending arms to dissidents in the Middle East, but it is offering aid in another critical way: helping them surf the Web anonymously as they seek to overthrow their governments.
Federal agencies - such as the State Department, the Defense Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors - have been funding a handful of technology firms that allow people to get online without being tracked or to visit news or social media sites that governments have blocked. Many of these little-known organizations - such as the Tor Project and UltraReach- are unabashedly supportive of the activists in the Middle East. But the United States' backing of these firms has the potential to put the government in an awkward diplomatic position, not only with the countries where uprisings are active, but also with economic partners such as Saudi Arabia and China, which are known to block Web sites they deem dangerous.