[Festival] IFF Weekly | August 14 - 18

[IFF Team]

Dear Friends,


Here are your updates for the week of August 14-18


### News and Updates ###

Our News and Updates section is driven by you! Be sure to include us in
your rounds of announcements and campaign updates!


***Support Bassel’s family***

The Freebassel has launched a Thunderclap campaign to help his family
begin the mourning process. To help, tweet:

“We demand Bassel Khartabil's date of death & remains returned to his
family for mourning to begin” #freebassel


https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/60420-justice-4-bassel


*** The Prototype Fund opens for applications again ***

The Prototype Fund supports ideas in civic tech, data literacy, data
security, and software infrastructure. With a grant of up to
€30.000,software developers, hackers, and creatives based in Germany can
write code and develop open source prototypes over a period of six months.


In addition to the topics civic tech, data security, data literacy and
software infrastructure, this third call goes out to projects with the
focus: More diversity: Open Source for everyone!


https://prototypefund.de/en/


***Help the #Istanbul10***

Amnesty International is asking that people send messages to Turkish
Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül demanding the release of the human
rights defenders and information technology trainers that were detained
earlier this month. To help with the collection of these messages, they
have set up an online form.


https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/take-action/tell-erdogan-free-amnesty-turkey-idil-eser-and-nine-others

### Community Stories ###
Community Stories is our platform to amplify your work. Get in touch
with us to feature your story in our Medium publication!
https://medium.com/iff-community-stories


*** Imprisoned Bloggers in Iran ***

“[…] blogging in Iran has faced numerous obstacles for the last 15
years; the Iranian government has very strict policies toward blogging
and has contributed to the decline of blogging in Iran. Weblogestan’s
debut coincided with Iranian government’s censorship and repressive
measures in the online world. As the domestic political changes were
occurring in Iran, the heyday of blogging was severely suppressed.”


https://medium.com/iff-community-stories/imprisoned-bloggers-in-iran-3dc957919b4


Some of your previous stories:


Is Internet safe for #FutureGeneration?

https://medium.com/iff-community-stories/is-internet-safe-for-futuregeneration-9de04625b28b


Open Technology Communities and their relevance today

https://medium.com/iff-community-stories/open-technology-communities-and-their-relevance-today-6915382db5e3


*** SMEX Welcomes Former IFFer Nick Sera-Levya ***

Nick Sera-Levyva, our former Creative Project Manager, has officially
joined SMEX (https://www.smex.org) as their Director of Program
Operations. In this role, he will be overseeing SMEX’s diverse
portfolio. If you happen to be in Beirut, reach out and say hi! nicolas
[at] smex [dot] org (GPG Key:
http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x0178FA72C0FEB502)


### Upcoming Events ###

Would you like to see a calendar of these and many other events online?
Let us know and please keep us informed about events you plan on attending!


* AbreLatam + ConDatos *

+ When: August 23-25

+ Where: San José, Costa Rica

+ Website: https://condatos.org

* MyData 2017 *

+ When: August 30-Sep 1

+ Where: Tallinn (Estonia) & and (Helsinki, Finland)

+ Website: https://mydata2017.org/


MyData brings together communities from the business, research, civil
society and government communities to shape how personal data is managed
globally.

* COCONET (Southeast Asia Digital Rights Camp) *
+ When: 22-26 October 2017
+ Where: Bali or Yogyakarta, Indonesia
+ Website: http://www.engagemedia.org/Projects/camp-coconet/


The Southeast Asia Digital Rights Camp COCONET (Connecting Communities &
Networks) currently has a call for proposals. The event is being
organized by EngageMedia, the Association for Progressive Communications
(APC), and the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), along with key
regional allies.

### Spotlight! ###

Looking for new adventures in the Internet Freedom space? Use the
following template and contact us to feature your professional profile
and help you connect with your next great project!

+ Availability: Full time/Part-time + available starting date
+ Location: your homebase + available for remote work?
+ Skills: i.e., research, writing, design, policy, communications,
software development etc.
+ Areas of interest: i.e., Internet rights, freedom of expression/online
censorship, digital commons, open data
+ Resume: link to online resume/LinkedIn/personal site if available
+ Contact: your email


### Job Opportunities ###

All submitted jobs are always available at:
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/job-board/


✎ * Web Developer – Electronic Frontier Foundation *
+ San Francisco, CA (USA)

+ https://www.eff.org/opportunities/jobs/web-developer-0


✎ * Senior Software Engineer – Electronic Frontier Foundation *
+ San Francisco, CA (USA)

+ https://www.eff.org/opportunities/jobs/senior-software-engineer


✎ * Director of Engineering – PeaceTech Lab *
+ Washington, DC

+ http://www.peacetechlab.org/director-of-engineering


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Much respect,

The IFF Team

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