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

Sun Sep 29 08:30:45 CEST 2019

Hi all,

The event in Taipei went well. We had around 20 signups, and around 10 actually showed up, including 3 people joining without signup.

Most participants are familiar faces from human rights orgs and FOSS communities.

Topics:
- The Mozilla Taiwan Community introduced the Mozilla internet health report
- Jeremy from Deflect.ca <http://deflect.ca/> introduced their platform
- I introduced OONI and my recent work on improving the Chinese testlist

People stayed around for about an hour for chatting. From my group there was a few people interested in OONI.

But a lot of people who signed up did not show up, so we decided to create a Taipei meetup's mailing list and invite everyone who signed up. We will share references that we mentioned in the meetup, hoping to attract more people next time.

Lessons learned:
- maybe more discussion time next time, but not sure, Taiwanese people are usually quiet, we need to be very good at leading the conversation
- maybe invite some people to talk about themselves

Best,
Pellaeon

> Sandy Ordonez <Sandy at internetfreedomfestival.org> 於 2019年9月28日 上午12:41 寫道：
> 
> 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 <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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