Call for new members!

October 29, 2018December 9, 2018 Julian Leave a comment

Cooperation and Development Network Eastern Europe (CDN) is happy to announce an open call for new members of the digital [x] working group. We are looking for interested and motivated people who want to discover everything connected to digitalisation, how it affects us, how we can affect it and how we can actively use it for society’s benefit.

Right now we want to work on digital rights, data protection, open culture and knowledge, digital privacy and security. Once we have our new members on board we can expand the scope and add new topics based on your interests and ideas. Our mission/main goal is to accommodate the needs and interests of our group members and CDN member organisations.

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Want to be part of the Prep Team? We are organising seminar “Digitised security – How to read the surveillance discourse and fight it!” Apply now!

April 9, 2017October 29, 2018 Anya Orlova

We, the digital [x] working group, together with CDN and Revolt are organising an international youth seminar on digital rights. It will take place from 24 – 30 April in Bosnia. It was inspired by a digital [x] webinar that looked at the political reactions sparked by the terrorist attacks in Paris and how the tension between security and freedom was framed by agenda setters. A year later, censorship and mass surveillance are becoming the norm, and we want to fight this: we want to change the discourse to achieve better policy and give everyone the tools to protect their freedom even in hostile environments.

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Open call: we are organising seminar “Digitised security – How to read the surveillance discourse and fight it!”. Want to be part of the Prep Team? Apply now!

December 17, 2016October 29, 2018 Anya Orlova

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15th digital [x] meeting – planning a seminar and being big on Twitter

January 18, 2016December 5, 2016 Julian

In the first meeting in 2016, digital [x] debated topics ranging from our report to the GA to the price of fish & chips in the UK. The two main tasks that we talked about were the European Youth Foundation application that we are currently preparing and how to continue the posting of news that we have started on Facebook some time ago. Regarding the application, we decided to have additional working group meetings to define the topic of the seminar and to start working on it now in order to try – once again – to avoid last minute stress. On the posts that we’ve been doing on Facebook, we’ve decided the last details of posting on Twitter, which we will start any day now!

First digital [x] webinar a success!

December 21, 2015December 5, 2016 Max

On 16 December, digital [x] organised a webinar about the effects of the Paris attacks on digital rights. We looked at the impact of the attacks on the current political debate and how that illustrates the tension between security and freedoms online.

This was our very first webinar, and we did not use any special webinar tools – just mumble, etherpad and some online slides. As planned, it all took two hours: introduction, presentation, discussions in small groups and a plenary at the very end. (more…)

digital [x] is organising a Webinar!

November 30, 2015December 21, 2015 Max

Dear people!

The recent tragic events in Paris are used by some politicians to argue for security measures that severely harm our human rights. Many of these are in the online sphere, where the proposed and actual legislative changes include censorship without judicial oversight, limiting our right to data protection, adding backdoors to encryption, re-introducing data retention, and increased mass surveillance. (more…)

11th digital x meeting – we are still rocking!

November 25, 2015December 2, 2015 Anya Orlova

It’s been a while since our last post. Time to update you on what’s up with us!

The digital [x] working group met this Tuesday and while few attended, we had a very cosy mumble atmosphere with a quite productive output. Firstly we discussed the strategy for our daily posts on current events, interesting projects and what’s on in digital activism and culture. For now we are posting it four times a week in our Facebook group and you are very welcome to check it out here. Another project we are working on at the moment is the webinar that will take place on the 9th of December. In this webinar we will look at mass surveillance and data collection in light of the recent events in Paris and what implications the fear of terrorism has on the European political debate regarding cybersecurity measures. A more detailed webinar announcement and how to sign-up will follow shortly this week. Everyone is welcome to join, participate and contribute! Stay tuned 😉

5th meeting – deadlines rule!

August 18, 2015April 9, 2017 Julian

The 5th digital [x] meeting took place on the 18.08.15. This meeting was dedicated to the setting up of the three projects that our working group has agreed on during the previous weeks. To start work and move beyond the project planning phase, we have decided to start working with short-term deadlines in order to achieve real progress soon.

We have identified the concrete goals that need to be achieved until our next meeting so that we can move on from there. As one of our projects we want to organise a seminar – here our task until the next meeting is to identify possible sources for funding and research their application criteria. If you know of any funders, please drop us a line. Your help will be greatly appreciated!

In our other project, where we want to monitor interesting developments in the digital rights field, we have decided that all ideas on how to implement this should be done until the next meeting. We will then distribute tasks and start realising our projects!

4th meeting

August 9, 2015August 9, 2015 Max

Similarly to the temperatures, digital [x] is beginning to warm up. On Tuesday, 4 August, we had our fourth meeting, discussing not only planned projects and internal/external communication channels but also the efficacy of our forum. Regardless of our stance toward Facebook, it is still the most important platform when it comes to reaching out to potential new members and partners. We will therefore get started implementing a Facebook profile and integrating it with our other platforms, stay tuned.

We are currently discussing three potential projects:

a support network for green organisations
an international seminar
monitoring of creative and alternative events and forms of digital activism and advocacy

At the moment we are still evaluating the viability and requirements of the projects. The next step will be to develop a concrete outline and get started with the work!
We are looking forward to hearing from you, keep in mind that you are welcome to apply for the Working Group at any point.

3rd meeting – and now on to the forum!

July 22, 2015August 9, 2015 Julian

Almost in the very middle of the summer 2015, on the 21.07.2015, the 3rd digital [x] meeting took place. As the heat and vacation rate starts to increase the participation rate started to decrease. Now we should see if that measure – participation rate – will change or not, because we’ve just took a decision to move all our communication to the forum and get rid of emails while we’re at it. There’s no need for that anymore as out awesome Discourse forum will be sending notifications by email. From now on all questions, issues, proposals, projects, and other shenanigans will be communicated and managed on the forum. This decision was the highlight of today’s meeting and we are now looking forward to see more of our working group members being active on the forum!