April 25 2024 GM
| Glitter Meetups |
Glitter Meetup is the weekly town hall of the Internet Freedom community at the IF Square on the TCU Mattermost, at 9am EDT / 1pm UTC. It is a text-based chat where digital rights defenders can share regional and projects updates, expertise, ask questions, and connect with others from all over the world! Do you need an invite? Learn how to get one here.
- Date: Thursday, March 14
- Time: 9am EDT / 1pm UTC
- Who: Martín Szyszlican
- Moderator: Mardiya
- Where: On TCU Mattermost "IF Square" Channel.
- Don't have an account to the TCU Mattermost? you can request one following the directions here.
Open data and civic tech to circumvent government censorship and disinformation in Latin America
We will talk about how open data and civic tech improves people's access to information, and institutions and authorities accountability. We will also learn about Abrimos.info, a new Latin American organization based in México, focused on generating knowledge from open data. They are working with access to public information, political candidates, open contracting and beneficial ownership information, supporting the strategies of other regional an international organizations and publishing information in the open web to overcome the usability challenges of government data.
Featured guest bio: Martín Szyszlican is a programmer since childhood and has been developing civic tech in Latin America (mostly in Argentina and México) for the past 12 years. He studied design (UBA) and specialized in UX (UTN). He is a co-founder of Abrimos.info and a member of Sutty.coop.ar
Notes
The notes will be posted here.
