February 13 2025 GM

What is Happening in Digital Rights Around the World?

Glitter Meetups What are Glitter Meetups Notes from Past Glitter Meetups Virtual Events Calendar Join the TCU Mattermost

• Date: Thursday, January 23
• Time: 9am EST / 2pm UTC
• Facilitator: Mardiya
• Where: On TCU Mattermost "IF Square" Channel.
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Come to share emerging and existing digital rights conversations happening around the world and in your region at this Glitter Meetup! There is something new, specific or special that you would like to bring to the technology and human rights table? Join us and let's talk about it!

What is Glitter Meetup?

Glitter Meetup is the weekly town hall of the digital rights and Internet Freedom community at the IF Square on the TCU Mattermost, at 9am EDT / 2pm UTC. It is a text-based chat where digital rights defenders can share regional and project updates, expertise, ask questions, and connect with others from all over the world! Do you need an invite? Learn how to get one here.

Notes

We talked about the IA Summit and the lack of conversations around human rights and other impacts, it looked like they were promoting the public invest in private companies to just increase control and capacity of Europe.

Then we talked about Calyx and CalyxOS, their Android mobile operating system and Fairphone, a modular phone, which is super cool. You can replace broken parts yourself instead of junking a device. They also recognize that it's not 100% possible, but they try to more sustainably source materials and use open source hardware.

The conversation shifts to the newsletters of the Digital Rights community and participants share these:

• Repair EU - https://repair.eu/
• The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society - https://cyber.harvard.edu
• Digital Resilience - https://digiresilience.org/
• Tech Policy Press - https://www.techpolicy.press
• EFF - https://www.eff.org