[Chapter-delegates] Chapter Toolkit needs just a few more supporting chapters before tuesday...

[Mafor Edwan Fon]

Very useful explanation,  full of concrete examples too. Thank you. Mafor
edwan. ISOC Cameroon

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 5:37 AM Michiel Leenaars <Michiel at staff.isoc.nl>
wrote:

> Hi Sandro,
>
> thanks for your message and your questions. Allow me to clarify some
> more in addition to Alexanders comments. We feel that we as chapters
> should lead by example, and support the internet and web standards the
> IETF and W3C produce - as well as extend the ability for everyone to
> build exciting new things without asking others for permission. If we
> do not support IPv6, DNSSEC, etc - who else will? If we shout about
> waving the flag, we should be willing to carry it too.
>
> Take these external service providers, just a sample from the ones you
> mention and/or currently in use by ISOC - and check out how they
> visibly fail to provide basic support for some of these standards:
>
> https://internet.nl/site/zoomgrants.com/307155/
> https://internet.nl/site/wetransfer.com/307151/
> https://internet.nl/site/docs.google.com/307152/
> https://internet.nl/site/forms.google.com/307153/
> https://internet.nl/site/www.surveymonkey.com/307160/
> https://internet.nl/site/new.livestream.com/307302/
> https://internet.nl/site/mailchimp.com/307150/
> https://internet.nl/mail/comms.isoc.org/120414/
> https://internet.nl/site/connect.internetsociety.org/307159/
>
> The global nature of the internet has a tendency to create 'winner takes
> all' mechanisms in the marketplace. We want to make the point that
> chapters (and indirectly the population of the internet) should be
> empowered to deploy services themselves on their own turf. If I'm
> discussing a topic related to the national security of my country with
> the chapter board, I don't feel very comfortable doing that in a system
> which I know stores that in plain text outside of my country and
> jurisdiction - especially in the light of legislation like the CLOUD
> act and other similar legislation around the world. I believe this is
> the same for all chapters - we sometimes talk about important stuff.
>
> Some of the applications we propose are actually technically (far) more
> advanced than their counterparts. FileSender for instance is capable of
> client-side encryption and can confidentially send files of any size -
> even a 100Gb or 1Tb file, depending on the amount of hard disk your
> server has. So your can send a huge 4K video from an event to you
> without problems. This is simply not possible with WeTransfer.
> Searx (which we have live at https://search.internetsociety.org) allows
> many independent search mechanisms to be used, to avoid the filter
> bubble. And Cryptpad is the only fully encrypted collaborative editor
> I'm aware of where the person hosting the server is unable to read the
> messages. Pol.is is used in Taiwan to support political dialogue with
> some very interesting results. Signserver can help to get digital
> signatures more widely spread, without becoming dependent on a third
> party. And the best thing is: your members can reuse all (or some) of it
> in their own organisations as much as they like, on a machine they can
> run and protect themselves - because it is all 100% open source. All the
> things they dislike about what Tim Berners-Lee in his recent Turing
> Award lecture called todays internet dystopia do not hold: no tracking,
> no monetisation, no central points of control, etc.
>
> The Internet is for Everyone, as our motto goes. And to me, that means
> not just expanding the spread of the internet in a passive, consumptive
> way. Internet Society at the core of its mission should empower users to
> grow and improve the internet and the web themselves at every possible
> layer - the future is too long and the world is too big to allow
> individual companies to monopolise any technology. We need to build
> convenient mechanisms for people to invent and deploy new services on
> the internet for their own use in a reliable and scalable way. There is
> in fact already a lot of great software out there that is not
> well-known to most people, and through the chapter toolkit we want to
> make those - and the underlying smart deployment mechanism itself -
> more widely available.
>
> Obviously, it is like a menu in a restaurant - not everything is likely
> to be immediately useful for every chapter at every point in time. This
> set is however based on needs that we think are common, and on
> tools that are among the best of breed and would make sense. Since we
> aim at common collaboration scenario's, there should be something in
> there for most chapters and in fact most organisations. The idea is to
> grow it, and be inclusive.
>
> (BTW: If there are other open source tools you think would make sense,
> we'd by the way love to hear. Or you can actually contribute them
> yourself, because this is a very democratic, bottom up effort).
>
> Best,
> Michiel Leenaars
> Directeur
>
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