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 | Head of Advocacy Web3Privacy Now
15.30 🎙️
Web3 and Social Justice
Jaromil Denis Roio | founder Dyne.org - artist, cryptographer and hacktivist.
16.00 🎙️
Insights from My Hacktivism Journey: Exploring Tor, Crypto, VPNs, and Defeating Censorship
Arturo Filastò | founder & CTO Open Observatory of Network Interference, former key person in Tor
16.30 🎙️
Empowering Activism: Strategies for Achieving Fair Compensation and Meaningful Recognition
Emanuele Russo | Human Rights Education Expert, Amnesty Italia former Chairperson, Hate Trackers Inventor
17.00 🎙️
Grassroots Activism: Empowering Collective Change from the Ground Up
Luca Lezzerini | Academic Professor in Software Engineering & Data Science, true activist
17.30 🎙️
Surveillance as Social Disorder
Andrea Togni | Philosopher, Monero Privacy Policy
18.00 🎙️
The Price vs the Value of Privacy
Leona Hioki | Founder Intmax
18.30 🎙️
Reimagining Democracy: Reducing Polarization, Enhancing Political Participation, and Promoting Prosperity
Marco Castignoli | Dev Ethereum Foundation, Open Source Maintainer
19.00 🎙️
Nessun Dorma
Anonymous Journalist
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