One Bush Street, San Francisco. (image: Thomas Hawk CC by/nc)

Information security concepts for activists, journalists & troublemakers

Much attention has been given to the potential of technology to connect, empower and accelerate movements. Less attention has been given to the fact that technology also empowers the adversaries of these movements.

Fallingwater House. Image by Via Tsuji (CC by/nc/sa)

An Online Collaboration Handbook: How to get a group working online

Online collaboration is simply getting stuff done over the Internet, and online collaboration tools, all of them, have some means of keeping people connected, getting them the stuff they need, and sorting out what to do next.

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Indaba in 2011: What we learned on the way to 3,000 completed jobs

During the past year, Indaba has moved from a good idea to a field-tested tool with strong user validation.

Mohamed Mahmoud street, November 22, 2011. (Image: Mosa'aberising - CC by/nc/sa)

What the burning of Alexandria can teach us about the Internet

Alexandria had a good run — some 700 years as the center of scholarship in the Western world — but it didn’t last. It was not the books that failed. It was the ideas.

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