[Chapter-delegates] New addition to the Chapter Tools Community Project: Privacy Centric Search

[AMADU YUSIF]

Good start, I think all chapters have to test and use the template


Yusif Amadu
eLearning Unit
University of Ghana Computing Systems
University of Ghana
Cell: +233244659245
Skype:  kooissi

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From: Chapter-delegates <chapter-delegates-bounces at elists.isoc.org> on behalf of Alexander Blom <alexander.blom at budgetphone.nl>
Sent: 25 April 2018 04:25:31
To: Chapter Delegates
Subject: [Chapter-delegates] New addition to the Chapter Tools Community Project: Privacy Centric Search

Hello everybody,

Undoubtedly, all of you followed the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica affair and you probably came away with the same alarming conclusion that Facebook is not fundamentally going to change its ways and that (once you become dependent) it is hard to quit services like Facebook - where to start?

In response Sally has posted a powerful message<https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2018/04/larger-facebook-cambridge-analytica-question-really-signed/> on the isoc.org <http://isoc.org> website that needs no further comment. Dan York actually highlighted the POSSE approach as the cornerstone for ISOC's own social presence, and that seems the way to go.

We at the Chapter Tools Community Project aim to alter your web presence too, and that of your members and perhaps the world. Step by step, of course. Today we make another modest contribution to the discussion, which we believe begins with having suitable and convenient alternatives.

Social media is one of the upcoming features, but first things first: with this mail we announce the addition of privacy centric search to the Chapter Toolkit, and (like anything you host yourself) one that you control yourself. With the toolkit, we provide a self-hosted search tool for the web that uses different search engines, filters out any cookies and offers a tracking free result to the user. Of course we also provide a public instance, but we recommend you use this with your own chapter
domain - this certainly helps to become aware that there is nothing necessary or normal about invading peoples privacy.

We will also provide some code to embed this in your website which we hope will be available next week but go ahead and test (and use) the tool already now at https://search.internetsociety.info. We welcome all of your comments and questions, and we have started our very own website which can be found at internetsociety.info<http://internetsociety.info>. Get out of the search bubble, and open up your world!

About the Chapter Tools Community Project:
It was started by the Dutch Chapter in november 2016, with the goal of assisting chapters with their online presence by bringing their needs in line with ISOC's standards. It aims to save chapters time, so that they can engage in other activities.
The project consists of a website template, a video conferencing tool and an 'app store' of chapter utilities that conform to ISOC’s high standards. 16 chapters are now using the website template, the latest additions being ISOC.fr (France) switching to our template and ISOC.td (Chad) switching to both our hosting and template.

Kind regards

Alexander Blom, Michiel Leenaars
ISOC Netherlands Chapter
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