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[Thomas Gramstad <thomas.gramstad AT ub.uio.no>]

Hi,

I asked Patrice Riemens for speaker recommendations, and he was kind to offer
many, also with links to their work. See below.

Personally I think we should just go hard, full throttle and invite all of
them. But of course I would not do that without a due process in the committee
first.

We have a meeting tomorrow night -- it's too much to go through everything
below before this meeting, but can everybody have a look as far as possible,
and we can get started on the list. And work through the rest of it to the
second next meeting, and maybe we can get through this list before the summer
hollidays?

Thomas


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Philippe Rekacewicz, aka Reka - 'radical cartographer', absolutely 
brilliant, immo.

https://illisible.net/geographer-cartographer-information-designer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coiEVbaBQuc

(Radical Cartography is how I speak: Philippe Rekacewicz at TEDxArendal)

Reka lives in Norway, on an island near  ... Arendal- 
I guess this is the perfect plug for him - by him.
(& how is his English?)


His pal (& mine) is Philippe Rivière, kaka Fil <fil AT rezo.net>

https://illisible.net/philippe-riviere?lang=en

lives in France in a grotto house (very special!), former webmaster of 
Le Monde diplomatique

At the moment runs the twitter account and website on police violence 
against the yellow vests. Centralizes and rigorously fact-checks all 
reports of 'erring' law & order units.

https://alloplacebeauvau.mediapart.fr/

descriptions:
https://datajournalismawards.org/projects/allo-place-beauvau/

https://www.stalkerzone.org/allo-place-beauvau-a-chronicle-of-state-violence-against-the-yellow-vests/
  (site temp of for maintenance)


Carlo Milani aka Karlessi <karlessi AT alekos.net>

Lives in Northern Italy & is a former member of the Ippolita collective, he
wrote the books on FaceBook and Google which I translated, plus a few more
criticizing over-dependence on tech- and Net- 'solutions'

https://circex.org/

Runs now courses in digital self-defense, to turn 'lusers' into 'digital
sovereigns'
https://collettiva.org/laboratorio-di-pedagogia-hacker/

vimeo clip: at Unlike Us conf INC, Amsterdam 2013:
https://vimeo.com/63460085


Last but way not least for now - finally A WOMAN! (oh sorry!)

Alexandra Haché aka Spideralex <spideralex AT riseup.net>
Lives a bit everywhere, but officially in Calafou, the 'ecoindustrial
postcapitalist colony' in Catalonia (https://calafou.org/en)
https://re-publica.com/en/member/3433

She is one of the most forceful voices of 'technological sovereignty',
coordinated the two books with the same title:
https://calafou.org/en/content/announcing-new-publication-technological-sovereignty
  (both volumes downloadable as pdf)

a video clip:  https://esc.mur.at/de/video/ministry-hacking-spideralex


Mathilde µP <mathilde AT mupe.nl>
http://mathilde.mupe.nl/index.htm
http://mathilde.mupe.nl/archive/

A long standing hardware hacker, Hippy from Hell, and famous, a.o.t. for her
'stone age computer'
https://oertijd.home.xs4all.nl/st-age/photo.htm

She lives in Amsterdam

An interview on Vimeo with Mathilde by SpiderAlex - in the Lelacoder (*)
project:
https://www.donestech.net/audiovisual/mathilde

She features also in this documentary:
http://hippies.waag.org/ (Ok, that's 2003)

(donestech.net - tech for women is a great resource. In Catala(n) but if you
put 'english' in the search you'll get some stuff)


Jean-Noel Montagné <jnm AT autistici.org>

Hacker, but foremost envirenmental & tech activist, lives in Nice, France.
http://jnm.name/  (FR, but some EN)

Organizer of the Nice Hackerspace https://blog.nicelab.eu/
Did a massive conference last year, the 'Convention on Environmentally
Sustainable and Citizen-based Transition'
https://at06.eu/
(press release in English: 
https://at06.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/TransitionConventionNice2018.pdf)

JNM is also a commercial WiFi and esp smartphone skeptic. And advocate of
'de-growth', and tech sovereignty (DIY - meaning also tech de-growth)

a short tech YT clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7abhJST1NSY
(2011 but he has hardly changed)


OK, now for 'Nina'/Lilith Lela/Miss Anonymiss etc. (real name known to this
board of regents ;-)
http://tymyrddin.space/

https://vimeo.com/lilithlela (could be by her, I am not 100% sure - you won't
see her anyway)

OK, got her - lelacoders project (SpiderAlex) of course, where else?
https://vimeo.com/66807058
you'll see her - masked. But u get the voice ...
hardcore hackster I'd say.

She's not the easiest to handle, and therefore I asked her first before
suggesting her for FSCONS2019. Her response was positive, and she sent the
following proposal:

(urls here first , for exec summary ;-)
Useful links:
https://niverel.tymyrddin.space/en/suxed/start
Sponsors: the Digital Whistleblowing Fund
https://www.whistleblowingfund.org/
and Hermes: https://www.hermescenter.org/

Neoliberalism has become the dominant ideology of the times. It has
established itself as a central feature of politics and has invaded all
industries. Not only does it define itself as a political and economic system
whose aim was to consolidate power in the hands of a corporate and financial
elite, it also wages an insidious war over ideas and words.

What to think of common phrases such as "market penetration", "target
audience", "on the radar" and the "submission" buttons that are everywhere?
Even NGO's and conferences claiming not to be infected by neoliberal thinking
use these words.

If the number of phrases that make direct reference to "whistles" is anything
to go by, "whistling" looms large in the consciousness of the English-speaking
peoples. The association with the blowing of whistles and the drawing of
attention to a misdemeanour extended into figurative use.

A whistleblower is a person who exposes any kind of information or activity
that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct within an organization that
is either private or public.

And, every time a whistleblower exposes government wrongdoing, the tactic of
governments is to try and demonize him/her as a traitor, and every time a
whistleblower exposes corporate wrongdoing, he or she can face harassment, an
increasingly hostile environment on the job, or lose his/her job.

What if you have a family to support and your integrity is on the line also? A
painful dilemma. And this is why we started our whistleblowing project for
data abuses, with support, congruence and coalition building in mind. We never
underestimate the possibility of creating change without necessarily doing it
in the public eye. Publication might not be the endgame, but can be, if
needed.

In this presentation, I will explain our whistleblowing process, how we
protect anonymity and confidentiality (and its limitations), present a sample
campaign ("bias and discrimination") and show the threat model coming out of
our research.

Useful links:
https://niverel.tymyrddin.space/en/suxed/start
Sponsors: the Digital Whistleblowing Fund
https://www.whistleblowingfund.org/
and Hermes: https://www.hermescenter.org/

Nina

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