[Coffee-organizers] HOW DID IT GO!! My Updatte

[Gus Narea]

Hi Sandy!

Apologies for the late reply.

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.

Cheers.

On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 17:41, Sandy Ordonez <
Sandy at internetfreedomfestival.org> wrote:

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