Mobile User Privacy Education & Training Session

From Guardian Project Wiki

I. Spring/Early summer Global User-Facing Event(s)

A. Concept Prime our event with a series of smaller (10-15 people) online meetings via Google Hangout+ or GoToMeeting Main event would be 50-75 locals with 10 invited guests Format would be a few speakers, but mostly breakout groups and workshopping, with topics including: how to get to 100% free phone Android vs. Meebo vs. WebOS mobile privacy, security, safety = defining risks and threats Would include hands-on training in: unlocking bootloaders, rooting and flashing firmware compiling Android OS firmware and flashing with Android OS SDK compiling and installing Guardian apps with Android App SDK

B. Potential Partners Citizen Lab, Univ of Toronto The Engine Room / https://theengineroom.org Access / AccessNow.org AspirationTech: http://www.aspirationtech.org/ New York Univ in Abu Dhabi: http://nyuad.nyu.edu/ Tactical Tech (UK/EU/Hungary)

C. Ideas on Locations Sao Paolo / Brazil (Brazil is ++ on open source!) Delhi or Bangalore, India (I travel there a lot already) Indonesia (fairly free and open) Dubai (lots of techies!) Abu Dhabi (NYU campus/program)

D. Possible Events to Coordinate With TEDx India, Dubai? O'Reilly/OS event State Dept blogger/tech meetup (last year in Vilnius, Lith as example) BarCamp Asia LinuxCon Brazil Personal Democracy Forum