Open Tech Calendar

Come join us at the Blocked.org.uk project planning day. We want to ‘hack’ the future of internet blocking policies and explore new ways of using Blocked to expose the harms they create. For that, we are organising a full day of exciting talks and workshops at the Mozilla Space in Covent Garden.

We are calling on all coders, developers, designers, campaigners and users interested in fighting unaccountable web blocking to join us. You do not need to know how to code to participate and move the project forward.

Programme

10.30 - Reception with coffee and tea

11.00 - Introduction to Blocked.org.uk: Where is it now

Jim Killock, Executive Director of Open Rights Group

11.15 - Using Blocked to challenge censorship internationally

Niels ten Oever, Head of Digital at Article 19

11.45 - One year of developing Blocked’s technology

Daniel Ramsay, Blocked’s Core Team

12.15 - Content filtering in UK public libraries

Radical Librarians Collective

12.45 - TBA

13.15 - Lunch break

14.30 - Break into small working groups to discuss:

• Improvements to the user experience (front end development requirements)

• Research and academic project ideas

• International uses for Blocked

• Campaigning and marketing against online censorship

• Others tbc

17.15 - Report back from workshops and wrap up

Send us an email if you would like to suggest a topic for a workshop. We will keep adding details about the programme closer to the date.

Blocked

Blocked is exposing the lack of transparency and redress in the web blocking process. This tool has already helped us show how internet filtering in the UK has gone far beyond its original intent of protecting children from harmful content. The filtering varies widely from ISP to ISP and judgements are kept secret. This leads to non-harmful content such as LGBT rights’ forums and business’ webpages being blocked without even knowing why.

Learn more about the project here.

N.B. Please RSVP in advance so we have an idea of numbers. You can do it in Meetup or just send an email to margarida@openrightsgroup.org

See you there,

Margarida Silva

Supporter Officer at ORG