Noteworthy Information

[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.

Purism - Fund Your App

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

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.


Questions Asked

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/

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?


Tools
FIWARE

The Open Source Platform for Our Smart Digital Future.