Hacking Blocked.org.uk: Join us at the project planning day
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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
12.00 - One year of developing Blocked’s technology
Daniel Ramsay, Blocked’s Core Team
12.30 - An investigation into the performance of UK internet providers’ web filters
Matthew Rowe, Lecturer of Social Computing at Lancaster University (tbc)
13.00 - Content filtering in UK public libraries
Radical Librarians Collective
13.30 - 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
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
