[Festival] IFF Weekly | June 5 - 9

[IFF Team]

Dear friends,

We’re excited to let you know that the first steps towards the 2018 IFF
are now underway! See below for details on the Fellowship application
process which just opened.

As always, your feedback is essential to making sure we’re serving the
community in the best, most inclusive and glittery way possible. We’re
always here for you on e-mail, Twitter (@InternetFF) and our Mattermost.

Here are the updates for June 5 - 9:

### IFF 2018: Fellowship Launch ###

We just launched the application process for IFF’s 2018 Fellows, the
professionals and community leaders in Internet Freedom who come
together to represent the different communities, making the IFF’s
content relevant, immediate and representative of the community and its
challenges.

Become an IFF Fellow and help create and curate the programming that
inspires and empowers the voices of Internet Freedom throughout the world!

Submit your application today:
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/2018-fellowship/

### News and Updates ###

*** Medialab-Prado Call for Proposals for Collective Intelligence for
Democracy ***

Medialab-Prado is hosting the International Collective Intelligence for
Democracy workshop from November 3th to November 18th and invites all
those interested in developing new tools to help move towards “real
democracy”. Proposals for projects around new network technologies,
distributed political action and collaborative decision-making sought to
help drive work related to commons, oriented democratic citizen
participation and the development of tools and methodologies.

http://medialab-prado.es/article/collective-intelligence-for-democracy-2017

*** US State Department Program Funding Solicitation Released ***

The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) has released its
Internet Freedom Annual Program Statement, requesting applications for
programs that support Internet Freedom. There are two deadlines to
submit statement of interest applications to this solicitation - July
24, 2017 and February 12, 2018.

The full solicitation is available at
https://www.state.gov/j/drl/p/271495.htm

*** Measuring Pakistani Women's Experiences of Online Violence ***

The Digital Rights Foundation released this study filling in gaps in
existing data on online violence against women in Pakistan. Compiled
from surveys of 1400 women from across Pakistan, the study maps the
different experiences of online violence against women, along with
looking at how women use digital tools. One interesting data point: 67%
use Facebook regularly though they rated it the worst medium in terms of
online harassment. Another: 40% claimed that they have been stalked and
harassed through them.

http://digitalrightsfoundation.pk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Hamara-Internet-Online-Harassment-Report.pdf

### Community Stories ###

Please share your story with the community! Our Community Stories
publication is a platform for you to share the stories behind the work
you do, to help build connections from within and inspire those within
and outside of our community.

More details in our intro post at:
https://medium.com/iff-community-stories/share-your-internet-freedom-story-35408bf885f7

### Upcoming Events ###
Are you going to one of these or another upcoming event? Would you like
to connect with other IFF community members? Hop on Mattermost, an Open
Source, self-hosted alternative to Slack.

Our Community Coordinator Nick Farr will be attending the Allied Media
Conference and we already have a channel active in our Mattermost. If
you’re not already in, request an invite at:
https://community.internetfreedomfestival.org/signup_user_complete/?id=71jwiewte7bb9rqq85s3d8to5w

* Allied Media Conference *
+ When: June 15-18, 2017
+ Where: Detroit (MI), USA
+ Website: https://www.alliedmedia.org/amc

A collaborative laboratory of media-based organizing strategies. The
Allied Media Conference is a collaboratively designed event. Conference
content is curated with care every year by 100+ volunteer coordinators
of tracks, practice spaces, and network gatherings. We define "media" as
anything you use to communicate with the world. You are a media-maker!

* Open Source Bridge *
+ When: June 20-23, 2017
+ Where: Portland, OR
+ Website: http://opensourcebridge.org/

Open Source Bridge is an annual conference focused on building open
source community and citizenship through four days of technical talks,
hacking sessions, and collaboration opportunities. Participants include
developers, hardware hackers, community organizers, and people involved
in the business of open source.

* Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) *
+ When: July 18-21, 2017
+ Where: Minneapolis (MN), USA
+ Website: https://petsymposium.org/

The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings
together privacy experts from around the world to present and discuss
recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies.

Stipends for assistance are available! The deadline for application is
May 31: https://petsymposium.org/2017/stipends.php

* SHA2017 *
+ When: August 4-8, 2017
+ Where: Scoutinglandgoed in Zeewolde, Netherlands
+ Website: https://sha2017.org/

SHA2017 is an international non-profit outdoor hacker camp/conference.
The camp is organized for and by volunteers from and around all facets
of the international hacker community.

!! IFF is in the planning stages of helping out with a “Net Freedom”
village at SHA2017. Please reply if you’re interested in supporting or
joining the village !!

* MyData 2017 *
+ When: August 30-Sep 1
+ Where: Tallinn (Estonia) & and (Helsinki, Finland)
+ Website: https://mydata2017.org/

MyData is a human centred approach in personal data management that
combines industry need to data with digital human rights. MyData 2017
conference brings together businesses, the research community, civil
society and government to shape the fundamentals on how personal data is
managed globally.


### Community Spotlight ###

Looking for new adventures in the Internet Freedom space? Drop us line
with your profile and we will feature it here to help you connect with
your next great team :)

### Job Opportunities ###
You know the greatest thing about our Job Board? It’s entirely driven by
your submissions and community support! Please spread the word to all
those in the market for a new candidate or job opportunity. Submit there
and we’ll include your job here in the weekly too!

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

✎ * Head of Asia Programme - Article 19 *
+ Location: South-East Asia region
+
https://article.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=f5ffaef8-34b4-41be-a5bd-acfaf3685844

✎ * Full-Stack Node JS Developer - The Coral Project *
+ Remote / New York (US)
+ https://blog.coralproject.net/open-positions/

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Peace and love,
The IFF Team