Jacob Appelbaum Presents the Tor Project

The second annual Arab Bloggers Workshop is currently taking place in Beirut, Lebanon (see other blog posts here); the Workshop consists of various presentations and smaller workshops on topics ranging from “Arab techies” to online campaigns to anonymity and circumvention technologies. Today, Jacob Appelbaum (@ioerror on Twitter) of Tor gave a presentation on how [...]

Tweets from Beirut: Day Two of the Arab Bloggers Workshop

The second day of the Arab Bloggers Workshop kicked off with a presentation about Herdict Web, a site which uses crowdsourcing to gather reports of Internet filtering from users around the world. Qatari workshop participant Muhammad Basheer tweeted a photo from the presentation:

Muhammad Basheer tweets about Herdict

Following the first presentation, Egyptian blogger Manal discussed [...]

Tweets from Day One of the Arab Bloggers Workshop

As the first day of the Second Annual Arab Bloggers Workshop comes to a close, we’ll take a look at participants’ reflections from the whole day, to find out what they learned and how they’re feeling. The day started off with a bang, as Global Voices organizers Sami Ben Gharbia, Amira Al Hussaini, and [...]