<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Sandy!<div><br></div><div>Apologies for the late reply.</div><div><br></div><div>That's a good idea indeed! Yes, Bernard took the notes and also pictures of the board, but he told me a few days ago that he'd not been able to find the time to share them with the rest of the group.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 17:41, Sandy Ordonez <<a href="mailto:Sandy@internetfreedomfestival.org">Sandy@internetfreedomfestival.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Chioma: I really like this format!!!! Rotating hosts and spaces is<br>
exactly right. it brings in more folks!! And it sounds like folks were<br>
really engaged. Any tips on how you talked about digisec to new audiences?<br>
<br>
Gus: where there any excersises you did that you can share to help map<br>
out the topics/needs people have? Nathaly (NYC) Recommended that we<br>
create a list of resources on the wiki, and i think thats a really good<br>
idea!! Some of those resources could be facilitation exercisies.<br>
<br>
Sandy<br>
<br>
On 9/27/19 6:07 AM, Chioma Agwuegbo wrote:<br>
> Hello everyone!<br>
> <br>
> So below is a brief report of our event in Abuja, Nigeria.<br>
> <br>
> Date of event: Thursday, 19th September 2019<br>
> <br>
> Event Manager: TechHer NG<br>
> <br>
> The first edition of Coffee & Circumvention which was held at the Aiivon<br>
> Hub, Wuse 2, Abuja, had 20 people in attendance.<br>
> <br>
> The event commenced at 5:15 pm and was hosted by Techher’s Myima Agu and<br>
> Soniya Dawarga. After welcoming guests, brief introductions and stating of<br>
> the objectives of the meet up by the TechHer team, the lead speaker for the<br>
> event, Mr Boye Adegoke from Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, gave a few<br>
> insights and answered quite a few questions on the theme of the meeting -<br>
> Basics of Digital Security. Mr Adegoke spoke on a number of critical issues<br>
> around digital security including ways we unwittingly endanger ourselves<br>
> online, how we can protect ourselves and what steps the government and<br>
> citizens need to take to ensure the protection of our online rights,<br>
> privacy and data.<br>
> <br>
> Mr Adegoke’s session was followed by a lively, enlightening discussion on a<br>
> range of issues from the balance between convenience, security and<br>
> regulation when making payments online to the ways negligence and<br>
> carelessness are the major reasons why people fall victim to online fraud<br>
> and scams and how to prevent those. We also briefly touched on the role of<br>
> the government in securing the data of citizens, making reference to the<br>
> Data and Privacy Bill which Mr President declined assent to last year.<br>
> <br>
> Lara Raji of ClueNG briefly discussed with the participants on the need for<br>
> safety regulations and settings for minors using the internet.<br>
> <br>
> Chioma Agwuegbo rounded up the meet up with a thank you to attendees and<br>
> extend an invitation for collaborations on themes, hosting and speakers for<br>
> subsequent eC&C meetings. The idea is to rotate hosting for the event and<br>
> tap into wider networks as we go along.<br>
> <br>
> The meet-up ended at 6:20 pm after snacks, drinks and presents for the<br>
> early comers were passed around.<br>
> Here is a link to the photographs from our event<br>
> <<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/techherng/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2508727252521915" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pg/techherng/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2508727252521915</a>><br>
> .<br>
> <br>
> Best,<br>
> <br>
> Chioma.<br>
> <br>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 11:30 PM Gus Narea <gus@relaycorp.tech> wrote:<br>
> <br>
>> Hello everybody,<br>
>><br>
>> I'm glad to hear that the NY and Amsterdam teams did so well at the first<br>
>> event, and that the events have led to further work offline.<br>
>><br>
>> Here's our update from the London team:<br>
>><br>
>> We used a format similar to the one used by the Amsterdam team, in that we<br>
>> wanted to use the first event to shape C&C London and get to know the<br>
>> community in London and their interests. We used a meeting room kindly<br>
>> provided by GreenNet.<br>
>><br>
>> We got 27 RSVPs, including 4 last-minute RSVPs hours before the event, but<br>
>> unfortunately there were only 6 of us there (half of us were organisers).<br>
>> We think this happened because we didn't have an agenda with specific<br>
>> topics to cover.<br>
>><br>
>> Apart from getting to know each other and the projects we work on, we also<br>
>> did a brainstorming activity to understand the topics that people in the<br>
>> room would like to see covered in the future, and we got leads on some<br>
>> really interesting speakers that we could get in the future. We'll soon be<br>
>> circulating a very short survey amongst people in the C&C London mailing<br>
>> list to gather their feedback on those topics.<br>
>><br>
>> Cheers,<br>
>><br>
>> Gus.<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 20:16, Sandy Ordonez <<br>
>> <a href="mailto:Sandy@internetfreedomfestival.org" target="_blank">Sandy@internetfreedomfestival.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Hey Everyone,<br>
>>><br>
>>> How did your Coffee & Circumvention meeting go? We want to know!!! Share<br>
>>> with us, so we can learn from each other!<br>
>>><br>
>>> For NYC, we had a few snafus, but overall it went super well. We had a<br>
>>> really good turnout. Just to give you an idea of how diverse it was, we<br>
>>> had reps from a grassroot group that does alot of work around<br>
>>> homelessness, wikipedians, digital security trainers, activists from<br>
>>> Asia and Latin America, aclu folks, lawyers working on freedom of<br>
>>> speech, and so much more.<br>
>>><br>
>>> One Lesson Learned:<br>
>>> We forgot to leave time for networking/socializing, which by far has<br>
>>> been super powerful in the past. Future formats will probably look more<br>
>>> like this: 20 minutes presentations, leave 20 minutes for Q&A, and then<br>
>>> the rest of the time to connect people together!<br>
>>><br>
>>> ONE WIN:<br>
>>> We also had three bilingual IT people approach us about learning how to<br>
>>> give basic digital security workshops so they can volunteer to help<br>
>>> folks locally. (Spanish, Arabic) In addition, two old school community<br>
>>> folks have agreed to have them as aides for a workshop, to help onboard<br>
>>> them.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Let us know one lesson learned and one win from your city, so we can all<br>
>>> learn from each other!!<br>
>>><br>
>>> Sandy :)<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
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