March 31 2022 GM
| Glitter Meetups |
Glitter Meetup is the weekly town hall of the Internet Freedom community at the IFF Square on the IFF Mattermost, at 9am EST / 1pm UTC. Do you need an invite? Learn how to get one here.
Date: Thursday, March 31st
Time: 9am EST / 2pm UTC
Who: Dr. Gina Helfrich
Where: As a guest of the Glitter Meetup on IFF Mattermost Square Channel.
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The BASICS Project
Internews’ BASICS project (Building Analytical and Support Infrastructure for Critical Security tools) aims to increase capacity and improve long-term sustainability for critical open source digital security tools used by human rights defenders around the world. BASICS accomplishes this through two main activities:
1) building ties between tool teams and the communities they serve by placing skilled individuals from targeted and vulnerable populations with the tool team as contributing specialists who help address tool needs (as identified through a collaborative assessment and planning process)
2) creating privacy-conscious methods to track tool usage and prioritize development needs through the Clean Insights privacy-respecting analytics methodology and toolkit (SDKs for Android, iOS, Javascript, Python, and Rust).
- Dr. Gina Helfrich is Senior Program Officer for Global Technology at Internews. She has spent the past seven years leveraging her extensive experience in program management and strategic communications to make technology better serve the needs of marginalized and at-risk people. Presently, she manages global technology programs in digital rights and digital safety that ensure access to a free and open internet and help protect journalists and human rights defenders. Prior to Internews, Gina served as Director of Communications & Culture at NumFOCUS, a non-profit supporting open source scientific software and data science communities. Gina has worked to advance diversity, equity, and belonging in the technology, higher education, and non-profit sectors for nearly two decades. She is the former Director of the Harvard College Women’s Center at Harvard University and earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University with a specialization in ethics and women’s and gender studies. She lives in Austin, TX, USA with her husband and two adorable cats. Gina's Mattermost handle for MM announcements: @ginah
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