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  • From: "Dorothy K. Gordon" <director-general AT aiti-kace.com.gh>
  • To: Alex Gakuru <gakuru AT creativecommons.org>
  • Cc: CC Africa mailing list <ccafrica AT lists.ibiblio.org>, Tobias Schonwetter <tobias AT creativecommons.org>
  • Subject: Re: [ccAfrica] CC global network strategy meeting - Kill it! - Fix it! - Add it!
  • Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 09:30:18 +0000 (GMT)

Totally agree with you. I do not do Whatsapp either for the very same
reasons. Hopefully we can find a less problematic technology to connect us.
By the way Alex give me a call when you can we really need to raise awareness
on these issues.

best

Dorothy K. Gordon
Director-General
Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT
Mobile: 233 265005712
Direct Line: 233 302 683579
Website: www.aiti-kace.com.gh
Encrypt Everything - https://gpgtools.org https://silentcircle.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Gakuru" <gakuru AT creativecommons.org>
To: "Tobias Schonwetter" <tobias AT creativecommons.org>
Cc: "CC Africa mailing list" <ccafrica AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, 19 May, 2016 9:35:52 AM GMT +00:00 Casablanca / Monrovia
Subject: Re: [ccAfrica] CC global network strategy meeting - Kill it! - Fix
it! - Add it!





Hello,

Here is my half-a-cent contribution ;-)

I prefer to separate my private communications devices and installed software
(some of which are technically terrible on privacy intrusions) from my work
communications. That way, I can uninstall whatever mobile apps upset me the
most -- as and when I get convinced of it. In the interconnected world (" DPI
" we happily renamed it 'Deep Privacy Invasion') has become the new apps
default, and we we're helping deepen surveillance society. We have are the
quarries being mined of our personal data and information. See talk Free is a
Lie by Aral Balkan, perhaps explaining why uninstalled WhatsApp on the day
Facebook purchased it.



Please note claiming that I do not have *any* of these apps on my phone. But
with the help of tools, such as SnoopWall independently reviewed here , I
closely monitor all my phone's installed apps unauthorised activities to
decide if and when to block or completely unistall any such.

Therefore: Requiring WhatApp (and or any other mobile app *as mandatory*) is
out for me. Optional, perhaps but backed-up by other traditional
non-instrusive official communication channels. True to it, Affiliates on my
current chat app know that have never required any of them to have installed,
but only if they so desire, and I wish to remain on one such...




Btw, don't allow yourself to fall for 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other
Misunderstandings of Privacy 1 flawed argument. If nobody had absolutely
anything to hide, then why shouldn't cameras be installed in all bathrooms?



Thanks for reading,



Alex


1 Solove, Daniel J., 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings
of Privacy. San Diego Law Review, Vol. 44, p. 745, 2007; GWU Law School
Public Law Research Paper No. 289. Available at SSRN:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=998565


On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Tobias Schonwetter <
tobias AT creativecommons.org > wrote:



Yes, thanks for the update. Very helpful! And an exciting discussion it
seems.


My two cents, if I may - and please disagree or agree or add more on this
list if you wish:



The whatsapp group suggestion is a good one, although I had considered it in
the past and didn’t go ahead because I (then) felt that whatsapp was not used
widely enough (yet) by affiliates in Africa … and while used extensivley in
some countries it is not used so much in others - for whatever reasons. Some
network members - especially the tekkies among us - also did not like that
whastapp did not encrypt their messaging but this was recently “fixed” I
believe. So I hope that a sufficient number of affilates in Africa signs up
to the group and actively monitors this (I will sign up now) - otherwise we
may wish to look into alternatives such as telegram or even something like
slack or an open alternative.


I admit, I am a fan of the (actually pretty flexible) MoUs for various
reasons (including creating some form of formalisation of the relationship
and a shared understanding of expectations and responsibilities) but the
roadmap system is broken imo. Nothing wrong though with creating an annual
plan but certainly not through the current roadmap system (hence our first
attempt this year to replace the roadmap with a simplified survey that
focusses more on the really important stuff). Was there any discussion of
what the alternatives would be?


Any other comments from anybody on this list to the points raised during the
discussions in Washington DC?


Looking forward to more updates.


Best,


Tobias




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Dr. Tobias Schonwetter
Regional Coordinator: Africa
Creative Commons

twitter: @tobyschonwetter









On 18 May 2016, at 10:10 AM, aristarik < aristarik AT gmail.com > wrote:



Thanks For the updates.
Regards
Aristarik Maro







Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

-------- Original message --------
From: Abbas Mahmood < abbasjnr AT hotmail.com >
Date: 18/05/2016 10:38 (GMT+03:00)
To: " ccAfrica AT lists.ibiblio.org " < ccafrica AT lists.ibiblio.org >
Subject: Re: [ccAfrica] CC global network strategy meeting - Kill it! - Fix
it! - Add it!


Thank you for the update.


Abbas.




Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 13:40:30 -0400
From: simeon AT jamlab.co.ke
To: ccAfrica AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [ccAfrica] CC global network strategy meeting - Kill it! - Fix it! -
Add it!

(*Kelsey forwarded the following email from the main cc-affiliate list last
night but it didn't get to the mailing list.. I'm resending without the image
but will share other images of the work we did - somehow - a little later.
We're wrapping up in 3h so if you have any feedback for today's session
please include quickly*)



Hello CC Africa


Simeon and I are inspired and excited after a fantastic first day at the CC
global strategy meeting. You'll see the day one update below


We would love to hear your feedback on the post and if you have anything you
want us to bring to the meeting tomorrow

To facilitate this and to help us all chat more We'll start a CC Africa
Whatsapp group


Please Whatsapp me at +27724385095 and I'll add you to the group


sawubona


Kelsey & Simeon

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Paul Keller < pk AT kl.nl >
Date: Monday, May 16, 2016
Subject: [cc-affiliates] CC global network strategy meeting - Kill it! - Fix
it! - Add it!
To: CC Affiliates < cc-affiliates AT lists.ibiblio.org >



Hi all,
as you will (hopefully) know we are having the first CC global network
strategy meeting in Washington D.C today and tomorrow. This is the first
physical meeting of the network strategy group that was formed as a follow up
od the discussions that we have had at the last day of last years summit in
Seoul. The purpose of this meeting is to stake out a couple of options for
the future of CC's global network that we can then investigate further within
the strategy group and with the rest of the network. While there will be more
comprehensive notes that will be circulated after the meeting we wanted to
aslo give a quick informal update on what is being discussed here during he
two days. This post is a quick little summary of what we have done today and
hopefully someone else will follow up with a summary at the end of tomorrow.


We spend the first half of the day doing a post-it heavy exercise mapping the
current state of the affiliate network. Paul S and Kamiel (who are
facilitating the meeting) walked us through a series of exercises focussed on
identifying things that we know about our network (data - white post its in
the picture below). This was followed up by an exercise aimed at identifying
frustrations/negative feelings that we have (the red post-its) and another
one focussing on positive feelings (the yellow ones). As you can the negative
feelings outweighed the positive ones, which is probably recognizable for a
most of us (and the reason why we are undertaking this process). We concluded
the morning session by two more exercises, the first one focussed on
identifying elements of the networks that we want to get rid of, that we
would like to improve and that we would like to add (the kill-it, fix-it,
add-it on the door). The last exercise collected and contrasted historic
goals of the network with future goals (the multi colored post its).

We kicked off the afternoon with a session in which we analyzed other network
organisations to identify positive and negative traits of their organization
models. This included the usual suspects (wikimedia, peer2peer foundation)
organisations working on humanitarian en environmental issues and
organisations advocating for entirely different causes that have interesting
organizational models.


We concluded the afternoon session with a open discussion in which we tried
to better understand why our network seems to be caught up in a "us vs. them
dynamic'. This was quite an intense discussion that scratched a number of
open wounds (paid vs unpaid work, the inadequacy of our structural
instruments (such as MoU and roadmaps) and the role of regional and global
coordinators.


While none of the discussion lead to anything very actionable yet (although
if i was a betting man i would not bet on a long future life of either the
MoU or the roadmaps) we hopefully laid the groundwork for some more results
oriented discussions on day two. i think most if not all of us where very
happy with the constructive and open nature of the discussions and to
discover that there is more that unites us than that divides us (even though
the red and the yellow post its might give another impression). so much for
now....


Paul (on behalf of Alek, Carolina, Claudia ,Claudio, Delia, Scann, Kelsey,
Kamil, Mari, Naeema , Paul S, Ryan, Simeon, Sohyuun)
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