Our version 1.0, which can be summarized with: “Manage your own people; Don’t be a jerk.” 1) No lifeguard on duty: Each project manager will moderate her own community in terms of politeness and peer-to-peer interactions, according to whatever standards you find appropriate. We don’t provide any moderation or monitoring of your teams. 2) Don’t [...]

This is a condensed version of the recommendations I send to Global Integrity staff regarding how to make a browser secure and reduce (but not eliminate!) the risk of spying by security services and other bad actors. As of yesterday, Google is once again raising hell over China targeting activists using less-secure browsers. The bottom [...]

Interview by Monika Kerdeman for Benevolent Media. On February 16, former President Clinton and 200 social innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs and philanthropists gathered at Ford Foundation for the Wired for Change event to discuss how to create an innovative and equitable digital future. A good overview, including archived “live blogging” posts, can be found on Jillian C. York’s website. The [...]

Indaba includes a monitoring software that keeps on eye on system health and alerts humans in case of problems like the site being unavailable, broken, or slow to respond. The monitor is one of the last things we installed, and we’re starting to get first months of complete reports now. As transparency people, we’re happy [...]