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1,4 milhão de cubanos contornam a censura utilizando o Psiphon

A ferramenta de evasão de censura da Psiphon Inc, disponível gratuitamente na Internet, ajudou quase 1,4 milhão de cubanos a reganhar o acesso a sites, afirmou a empresa na última sexta-feira. Esse anúncio se dá no momento em que o governo cubano impede o acesso a redes sociais e aplicativos de mensagem.

A ferramenta de evasão da censura — que reúne ferramentas de VPD, SSH e HTTP Proxy — também já foi utilizada em países como Irã, China, Belarus e Myanmar, de acordo com as notícias mais recentes. A agência Bloomberg destaca que a Psiphon, organização sem fins lucrativos sediada em Toronto, "recebeu recursos do 'Open Technology Fund', uma instituição sem fins lucrativos do governo estadunidense que tem por objetivo apoiar tecnologias que garantam a liberdade no acesso à Internet ao redor do mundo". The censorship-circumvention tool — which combines VPN, SSH, and HTTP Proxy tools — has also been used in Iran, China, Belarus, Myanmar, according to recent news reports. Bloomberg notes that the Toronto-based nonprofit Psiphon "has received funding from the Open Technology Fund, a U.S. government nonprofit that aims to support global internet freedom technologies.

[Simple] 1.4 Million Cubans Bypass Censorship Using Psiphon

Psiphon Inc's freely available internet censorship circumvention tool has helped nearly 1.4 million Cubans this week gain access to websites, the company said on Friday, after Cuba's government curbed access to popular social media and messaging platforms...

The censorship-circumvention tool — which combines VPN, SSH, and HTTP Proxy tools — has also been used in Iran, China, Belarus, Myanmar, according to recent news reports. Bloomberg notes that the Toronto-based nonprofit Psiphon "has received funding from the Open Technology Fund, a U.S. government nonprofit that aims to support global internet freedom technologies.

The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders

Here's something for the MyData community to think about: The open source movement runs on the heroic efforts of not enough people doing too much work. They need help.

Os poucos, os cansados, os codificadores de código aberto

Aqui está algo para a comunidade MyData pensar: O movimento do código aberto se baseia nos esforços heróicos de não haver pessoas suficientes trabalhando demais. Eles precisam de ajuda.

Purism - Financie seu aplicativo

Um verdadeiro sistema operacional de código aberto para celular que não possui posições políticas?

Purism - Fund Your App

A real open-source OS for mobile phone that has no political stances?

Conferência de privacidade OpenMined (transmissão ao vivo do dia 1)

Andrew Trask, da Universidade de Oxford, deu uma palestra incrível sobre privacidade.

OpenMined Privacy Conference (Day 1 Livestream)

Andrew Trask from the University of Oxford gave an amazing talk regarding privacy in context.

Open-source standard data profiles and personal data licenses

Prifina has today released an open standard data profile and other developer tools in the open-source GitHub repository called “Liberty. Equality. Data.

FOSS: Open Advice

Here is an interesting resource (from 2011) about open software and community for all that build related solutions/communities.

De-google-ify Internet - List of alternatives

The whole web is occupied by centralized services… Well… not entirely. One small village of indomitable Free Software lovers still holds out against the invaders.


Perguntas feitas

Volunteer Mentors for the Open Bridge Project

We are looking for some volunteer mentors for the Open Bridge Project, an online platform for beginners interested in open movement, if you are interested, visit: https://openbridgebeta.wordpress.com/mentor/

Mentores Voluntários para o Projeto Open Bridge

Estamos à procura de alguns mentores voluntários para o Open Bridge Project, uma plataforma on-line para iniciantes interessados em movimento aberto, se você estiver interessado, visite: https://openbridgebeta.wordpress.com/mentor/

Open Invention Network

Viivi had an interesting chat with a person from the Open Invention Network who hopes that MyData Global would engage with them. They have a mechanism in place for becoming a “friend organisation”, which is an idea we’ve been kicking around at MyData Global as well. Question to open source folks here: what do you make of the initiative?

MyData Open Source Projects

What are the most known/active open source software projects and/or communities actively developing MyData based solutions?


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