Presented at
May Contain Hackers (MCH2022),
July 26, 2022, 2 p.m.
(80 minutes)
Creating awareness on digital sovereignty among different communities is a task that requires to constantly learn about the context of technology in our lives. In the workshop I'd like to share my experience presiding in Interferencias (a Spanish digital rights awareness association), and the way we try to reach both technical and non-technical communities. We would create
## Introduction
When organizing local events, teaching about open source technology or giving space to discuss about what are the limits technology should have, only focusing on a technical dialogue will leave out relevant approaches, as well as questions:
Should early education rely on digital resources before talking about the consequences of using that technology? Are strong communities such as feminism fairly given the space and attention they should in free software/hardware communities? Are we building tools for a technology lobby or aiming a free, open and local communities?
## Communities and free software
Technology sovereignty movement must be open to constant self and external constructive criticism, learn from older and wiser communities (queer, feminism, anti-racist, anti-fascist...) and be ready to operate in a helper-like type, rather than a savior-like type. While software and hardware is proven to be extremely relevant nowadays, so are the means behind it.
The whole workshop is about discussing the future of free software communities, sharing experience on privacy and digital rights awareness for different context and sharing tools, books, articles, associations and resources to keep the topic fueling outside the event.
## Contents
The workshop will help people trying to build similar dialogues in their local environments (what to ask, what to bring out, limitations and needs), as well as having a space for sharing information and creating more diverse ideas. If everything goes right, we could keep connected for further projects in the future. These are some of the contents of the workshop:
- Books, articles and open source reading resources on privacy and digital rights topics.
- Technology in early education and public schools/universities (mostly focused on presenting alternatives to Google Classroom and similar tools, which is [our main project](https://elbinario.net/2021/07/12/fuera-google-de-las-aulas/) from 2021 on Interferencias).
- Engaging with feminism. Learning from the trans-feminism and [xeno-feminism](https://laboriacuboniks.net/manifesto/) dialogues and manifests to create better tech communities.
- [Crafting a code of conduct](https://eslib.re/conduct), in contents and shape (transparency, git, interviews, caring)
- Brainstorming local needs that can use the help of free software/hardware.
- Use of [fediverse](https://fediverse.party/) for engaging communities.
Presenters:
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Paula
Threat Intel analyst, previously threat hunter and pentester. President and co-founder of [Interferencias](interferencias.tech/), a privacy and digital rights awareness association in Spain. Teacher of post-exploitation, IoT security and hardware hacking in a professional education grade in Madrid. Writing about free software communities in [ElBinario](elbinario.net/), participating in a [social radio](https://www.elsaltodiario.com/post-apocalipsis-nau) in Madrid, but also presented technical presentations and workshops in: DeepSec Vienna, BlackHat, CodeLand, and various spanish cybersecurity events.
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