Committee to Protect Bloggers

来源: Committee to Protect Bloggers

The Committee to Protect Bloggers is devoted to the protection of bloggers worldwide with a focus on highlighting the plight of bloggers threatened and imprisoned by their government. We support the right of bloggers, regardless of professional status or engagement in activism, to speak and we do so regardless of their ethnicity, national origin, religion or political beliefs.

For a more detailed look at what we do, please read the Committee to Protect Bloggers Mission Statement. If you are a Facebook user, we encourage you to also join our CPB Cause page and if you use Twitter, follow our updates.

The Committee also runs the Blogswana project, a blogging training program in the southern African nation of Botswana. We have set up a Botswana pilot project ChipIn account for funding.

The Committee was formed in January of 2005. It went on hiatus in mid-2006 and was reactivated in August of 2007. Curt Hopkins is the editor. It is a 501(c)3 U.S. tax-exempt non-profit corporation.

The CPB site is hosted by Free Kareem, a leader in the “creative disruption” of complacent free speech organizations and an advocate for the release of the imprisoned Egyptian blogger.

Day of Blog Silence for Fouad

作者: Mary Joyce 来源:www.zapboom.com

What? Day of Blog Silence to Protest the Imprisonment of Blogger Fouad Alfarhan
When? Sunday, January, 2008
Where? blogs around the world
How? On that day, bloggers will not write on their blogs, but instead will post a Free Fouad banner, like the one above. (Both banners are posted full-size at the bottom of this post.)
Why? To free a blogger imprisoned for criticiznig his government and to send a message that we will not tolerate the persecution of free speech in the blogosphere.
Who is organizing the action? Mideast Youth

Free Fouad Al-Farhan

来源: campaigns.aicongress.org

On December 10, one of the Arab world's top bloggers was arrested by the Saudi Interior Ministry. Fouad Al-Farhan, age 32, is the godfather of Saudi blogging. He was among the first Saudis to blog under his real name and has been an outspoken voice for nonviolent reform.

A successful hi-tech entrepreneur, Fouad was arrested at his office and his computers seized. He was detained after refusing to apologize for blog posts criticizing Saudi officials. Fouad remains held in an undisclosed location.

A father of two, Fouad advocates for greater openness in Saudi Arabia, hoping to build a better future for his young children. Join with free-speech advocates around the world and send a letter (you can edit the text below) to Saudi and American officials.

1776 people have sent letters as part of this campaign. Click here to see who has sent a letter.

Fill out the form below to e-mail a letter to:

• Prince Saud Al-Faisal, Saudi Foreign Affairs Minister
• Adel Al-Jubair, Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the US
• Nicholas Burns, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs
• Ford Fraker, US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia

Spread the word: Free Fouad!

来源: Free Fouad

Spread the word: Free Fouad!

You can help Fouad by displaying this Quote Randomizer Badge on your blog. The quotes are translated from his blog post “Why Do We Blog?” The badge will allow the script to display random Fouad’s quotes on your blog like this way:

Click to select, then copy and paste it in your blog’s code:

<iframe name="FouadRandomizer" src="http://alfarhan.org/fouadphrases/fouad_phrase.php" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" height="200" width="150"></iframe>

“Free Monem” Site Banners & Badges

来源: Free Monem

You can help blogger and journalist Abdel-Monem Mahmoud by displaying one of these banners or badges on your site.

Quote Randomizer:

This badge will allow the script to display random Monem’s quotes on your website like this way:

Copy the following HTML code and paste it in your blog’s code:
Copiez collez ce bout de code HTML sur votre blog:
قم بنسخ و إلصاق هذا الجزء من لغة البرمجة على مدوّنتك:

<center><iframe name="monem" src="http://freemonem.cybversion.org/monemphrases/monem_phrase.php" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" height="200" width="150"></iframe></center>

“Monem Article 19 poster” for the World Press Freedom Day:

Monem Article 19 poster (1074×794)
Monem Article 19 small version (522×397)

“Free Monem” Site Banner:

Site Banner

<img src="http://freemonem.cybversion.org/wp-content/uploads/FreedomMoneim.gif" alt="FreedomMonem" />

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ONI-Asia

来源: ONI

Building on the pioneering work of ONI, the ONI-Asia project is extending and intensifying that model of collaborative local engagement to the Asia region as a whole from 2006 to 2009. Since 2002, the ONI has performed comprehensive studies on Internet filtering in forty countries, including eleven in Asia, where state-directed Internet filtering occurs regularly. Nevertheless, censorship and surveillance have thus far not been taken on as a public policy or legislative issue by governments and civil society in the Asia region. ONI-Asia will therefore engage academic, policy, and civil society stakeholders in each of the countries of the regions concerned by surveillance and censorship to build institutional capacity and networked resources to conduct research and public policy advocacy around those issues.

Objectives

1. Investigate internet surveillance and censorship in Asia by country and themes
2. Engage stakeholders on public policy issues in governments and civil society
3. Build a sustainable community of practitioners

Outcome

1. Better understand internet surveillance and censorship in Asia
2. Bring those issues to the policy debate in each country
3. Build capacity and a community of researchers public policy advocates

Outputs

1. Annual ONI-Asia regional reports
2. Chapters on individual countries and regional analyses
3. Ad hoc reports
4. Annual policy conferences in the Asia region
5. Several smaller workshops on research methods and technical issues

The ONI-Asia project in paced in three phases. The project will first identify and engage research and advocacy partners in all sub-regions, conducting assessments and developing comprehensive work plans with each of them. Phases two and three will implement the research and advocacy agendas, while networking all partners to strengthen capacity and take over project objectives upon completion of funding.

For more information, please contact:

François Fortier
Director, ONI-Asia
ffortier at citizenlab.org

CiviSec Project

来源: CiviSec Project

The Internet is now an unavoidable necessity for state and non-state actors. At the same time there is a crisis brewing, as governments, corporations, civil society, and militant actors filter, monitor, censor and censure the activities and discussions of citizens worldwide. Although these censorship and surveillance practices take place in the realm of cyberspace, they can have real physical consequences as well. Filtering, monitoring and interception make it possible for hostile actors to find confidential and geographic information that may be used to cause harm. This new insecure environment impacts organizations working in countries that utilize Internet surveillance and filtering, creating an environment where organizations feel obliged to limit use of technologies or, due to lack of knowledge, continue to operate in an insecure manner.

The goal of the CiviSec Project is to address issues of Internet censorship, surveillance and infowar on three levels. First, it will address them by raising awareness through advocacy as to the prevalence and consequences of filtering practices and insecure communications around the world. Second, the CiviSec project will develop specific software and networking tools to allow non-expert users to detect filtering and/or insecure communications and to circumvent or mitigate these practices in the safest possible manner. Third, the project will develop online resources accessible to non-technical experts covering both methods and means for securing communications, as well as providing relevant background material. By bringing together software developers, researchers and civil society actors along each of these three levels, the CiviSec Project will create both software and instructional guides that empower organizations to determine their own specific needs and take informed action when implementing privacy and security solutions.

About Global Voices Advocacy

来源: Global Voices Advocacy

Global Voices Advocacy:

seeks to build a global anti-censorship network of bloggers and online activists throughout the developing world that is dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and free access to information online. The aim of this network is to raise the awareness of online freedom of speech issues and to share tools and tactics with activists and bloggers facing similar situations in different parts of the globe.The network is meant not only to provide support to its members, but also to produce educational guides about anonymous blogging, anti-censorship campaigns, and online organizing. By collaborating with software developers, activists, and bloggers, the network hopes to design new and more appropriate tools to protect our rights on the Internet.

For more information about internet censorship by governments around the world, read the Open Net Initiative’s home page and country studies. Also check out this article and this excellent weblog by one of the world’s premiere experts on Internet censorship, Nart Villeneuve.

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