Web3Privacy Now Meetup @ ETHRome 2024
Shaping and Defending the Techno-Political Evolution: Open Source, Public Goods, and Grassroots Movements
Technology shapes our eras, defines us, and dictates how we interact as a civilization. As innovators and advocates for change, we bear a significant responsibility.
A half-day dedicated to foster solidarity and understanding among
Open Source and human rights advocates
public goods developers and hacker culture
internet freedom defenders and grassroots movements
hacktivists and the general public
PROGRAMME 📆
14.30
Arrival & Orientation
15.00 🎙️
Opening Ceremony
Piergiorgio Catti De Gasperi | Co-founder & Head of Advocacy Web3Privacy Now
15.30 🎙️
Web3 and Social Justice: Hacktivism in the Crypto Era and Beyond
Jaromil Denis Roio | Founder & Director Dyne.org - artist, cryptographer and hacktivist. Jaromil started and facilitated many free and open source software apps and some projects for the European Commission. He holds Ph.D. in philosophy, and publishes papers on free software, ethics and society, media theory and mathematics.
16.00 🎙️
Insights from My Hacktivism Journey: Exploring Tor, Crypto, VPNs, and Defeating Censorship
Arturo Filastò | Founder & CTO Open Observatory of Network Interference: a free software project within the TorProject that has been monitoring internet #censorship worldwide since 2012. Arturo is also the co-founder and vice president of the @HermesCenter and previously worked with @GlobaLeaks: the first open-source #whistleblowing platform to report corruption, human rights violations, and other injustices securely.
16.30 🎙️
Empowering Activism: Strategies for Achieving Fair Compensation and Meaningful Recognition
Emanuele Russo | Human Rights Education Expert, Amnesty Italia former Chairperson, Inventor of Hate Trackers approach to combating hate speech online.
17.00 🎙️
Grassroots Activism: Empowering Collective Change from the Ground Up
Luca Lezzerini | Academic Professor in Software Engineering, Internet & Data Science at POLIS University, with a rich background in activism. He has supported dozens of families and hundreds of individuals in securing their rights, promoting civil resistance and non-violent struggle.
17.30 🎙️
Surveillance as Social Disorder
Andrea Togni | Philosopher, Monero policy workgroup. Andrea teaches history and philosophy and wrote several academic papers on privacy and surveillance.
18.00 🎙️
The Price vs the Value of Privacy
Leona Hioki | Founder Intmax
Leona has been working in security and privacy since his college days. In 2018, he joined the Plasma research community and receiving an @ethereum Foundation Grant.
18.30 🎙️
Reimagining Democracy: Reducing Polarization, Enhancing Political Participation, and Promoting Prosperity
Marco Castignoli | Dev Ethereum Foundation, Open Source Maintainer. He works to make smart contracts human-readable and organized events with @SpaghettEth.
19.00 🎙️
Nessun Dorma
Anonymous | Journalist and intelligence backliner
19.30 - 23.00 🍻
APERITIF, DINNER, GATHERING
Crafted Beer by Hopera, Dinner by Trapizzino
LOCATION 📍-----------------------
Villaggio Globale
A unique cultural and human rights space that has served for many years as an educational platform for activists, minorities, and tech innovators
🚨 Do not trust Google: entrance is from Largo Dino Frisullo
Future of The Internet
& privacy's core role in it.
Forms of social control are expanding rapidly — justified by the need to combat “terrorism”.
Surveillance shifts from the exceptional to the everyday, from "dangerous" classes to the general population. The crowd is no longer "solitary" and anonymous: it is "naked.
Digital images, facial recognition, and data mining track and profile individuals, while video surveillance and algorithms predict future actions. Soon, individuals may be judged by predicted behaviors, eroding dignity and autonomy in the name of "security."
What dignity remains for a person who has become a prisoner of a past and a future entirely in the hands of others, from which they must resign themselves to being expropriated?
Privacy Summit I, Prague, 2023 - Ameen Soleimani
In any society, privacy is essential for protecting civil liberties and human rights.
Privacy enables individuals to participate in political processes without fear of retribution or surveillance, ensuring that they can freely express their views, associate with others, and engage in activism. Robust privacy practices assist in balancing power between individuals and the state or corporations.
When we talk about privacy, we are discussing more than just data protection. We are addressing the fate of our societies, their present, and their future
Amsterdam Meetup - David Chaum
The mere availability of a technology does not legitimize any use of it; its use must be evaluated based on values different from those offered by the technology itself.
Privacy is not an obstacle, but the means by which scientific and technological innovations can legitimately enter our societies and our lives.
Privacy Summit II, Paralelni Polis, Prague, 2024 - Vitalik Buterin & Ameen Soleimani
ABOUT US
Web3Privacy Now is a think-and-Do-tank of hundreds of people, projects, and organizations committed to protecting and advancing civil liberties, decentralization, and open-source software.
We facilitate cross-stack and cross-community collaboration to drive meaningful impact. We challenge standardization and maximalism, avoid abstractions and stereotypes.
We work on the forefront of technology with a poly-disciplinary approach, togetherness, and care, assiting each other in clarifying paths toward effective progress.
Website: https://web3privacy.info/
Latest news: http://twitter.com/web3privacy
OUR MISSION
We aim to manifest profound social change by advocating Privacy and civil liberties in the Web3 Era.
We envision a world where privacy is a conscious, actively chosen lifestyle, accessible to everyone, everywhere.
With unified efforts, we are carving out a path toward a more equitable, decentralized, and freedom-respecting digital commons.
Our previous events - feel the vibe:
Privacy Summit II - Paralelni Polis, Prague 2024
Privacy Summit I - X10, Prague 2023
ETHRome Meetup - Villaggio Globale, Rome 2023
*The event is held to complement the ETHRome hackathon.
Contribute
- Volunteer: DM on TG: @Dotrego
- Speak (CfP): https://tally.so/r/nrOzXl
- Partner: DM on TG: @PG_CDG or X