[IFF] Weekly | January 6-10

[IFF Team]

Dear friends,

This newsletter is a service for internet freedom defenders around the
world! Send us interesting updates, open positions, events, and
resources and we will share them in our next newsletter. Contact us at
team at internetfreedomfestival.org.

Here are our updates for the week of January 6 to 10:

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>From the IFF team, we want to send out a huge hug and Happy New Year to
all of you. We know the past few weeks have been incredibly tough for
some of  our community members. You are not alone, remember that there
is an entire community behind you. Glitter and love your way
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*** Three New Online Courses for Investigative Journalists in Iran ***

Totem, the online platform that helps journalists and activists use
digital security and privacy tools and tactics more effectively in their
work, is releasing three new courses regarding investigative and citizen
journalism in Iran. These interactive courses will guide you through
discovery and verification of information posted on social media
platforms (Social Media research), the best ways to use the Internet to
collect data for stories (Desk research) and finally to the risks
attached to conducting field investigations in a repressive environment
(Field research).

https://learn.totem-project.org/courses


*** Internews New UX Feedback Collection Guidebook ***

The UX Feedback Collection Guidebook aims to facilitate feedback loops
between users and tool developers by equipping digital security trainers
and other trusted facilitators with the skills and resources they need
to safely gather information around end-users’ needs, practices, and
operating environments; collect tool-specific feedback from at-risk
users; synthesize, prioritize, and structure information or feedback,
and share information or feedback with relevant developers or tool teams.

https://usable.tools/guidebook/


*** Checkout the Taipei Coffee & Circumvention Local Hub! ***

Several regions are running monthly local hubs called “Coffee &
Circumvention.”  Check out what the amazing Taipei hub did in October.

https://www.eff.org/fr/deeplinks/2019/10/chinas-global-reach-surveillance-and-censorship-beyond-great-firewall


*** Lumen Looking for Ideas that Modern Technology Can Bring More
Freedom of Information and Media to North Korea ***

The goal of the online-based open call is to generate the best
innovative ideas for how to distribute information into North Korea. To
do so, they are turning to the power of crowdsourcing ideas from anyone
around the world. Submit your ideas in English or Korean before January
31st.

https://www.lumen.global/lumen-2020-open-call


***ADC Launches a New Landing Page Dedicated to Face Recognition, as
Part of their Campaign in the City of Buenos Aires***

The website explains how face recognition technology works,  the risks
and impacts it has on human rights and civil liberties. The listed
campaign "Not With My Face" ("Con mi cara no"), reports on how this
technology was implemented in the  Buenos Aires subway system in April,
and its being copied by other cities.

https://conmicarano.adc.org.ar


### Grants, Fellowships, & Awards ###

Send us your opportunities, and we will include them in our newsletter!

The Community Prototype Fund (CPF)
Deadline: Rolling Basis
https://www.opentech.fund/funds/community-prototype-fund/

### Events Calendar ###

Please note that we only feature events with a code of conduct. Have a
look at the full Internet Freedom Events Calendar over here:
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/internet-freedom-events-calendar/

IFF Glitter Meetup | Every Thursday
9am EDT | 3pm ECT | 1pm UCT | 9pm CST
+ IFF Mattermost Square Channel
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/wiki/index.php/Glitter_Meetup

Tech Intersections 2020 | January 25, 2020
+ Oakland, CA
https://mailchi.mp/24058b8e09fe/tech-intersections-2020-call-for-speakers

IXDA | February 2 - 7, 2020
+ Milan, Italy
https://interaction20.ixda.org/index.html

Nullcon | 6-7 March, 2020
+ Goa, India
https://nullcon.net/website/

Internet Freedom Festival | April 20 - 24, 2020
+ Valencia, Spain
https://cfp.internetfreedomfestival.org/2020/

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### Job Opportunities ###

Share your job opportunities with us to be featured on our newsletter.
All job opportunities are available at:
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/job-board/

✎ Manager, Information Security Operations & Engineering | New York Times
+ New York, NY
https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NYT/job/New-York-NY/Manager--Information-Security-Operations---Engineering_REQ-006586-1

✎ Application Security Engineer | New York Times
+ New York, NY
https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NYT/job/New-York-NY/Application-Security-Engineer_REQ-006340-1

✎ Technology Officer | Center for Digital Resilience
+ Remote
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IJ0bczUoxNyBLRhD--KSQbEb_nbpyQhTIJ38-xzekII/edit?usp=sharing

✎ Front-end developer | Horizontal
+ Remote
https://hzontal.org/jobs/front-end-dev/

✎ Designer | Horizontal
+ Remote
https://hzontal.org/jobs/designer/

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The IFF Team
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