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"Such a system is useful for people to communicate in situations when governments don't want them to," The Telegraph quoted Sascha Meinrath, head of the project at the New America Foundation, as saying. ...

Such a system "is useful for people to communicate in situations when governments don't want them to," said Sascha Meinrath, head of the project at the New America Foundation. While Facebook and Twitter played a role in the Arab Spring uprisings, ...

The New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute (OTI) will sponsor, along with several other organizations, F2C: Freedom to Connect, a teach-in on the Internet's under-represented issues for the Washington DC policy community such as innovation, creativity, free expression, human rights and personal security.

"Native Americans face an ever-increasing digital divide, because they have been purposefully discriminated against in the business models and rollouts of next-generation networks," said Sascha Meinrath, director of the Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation, a public policy think tank. "These are places that have been systematically forgotten by society."

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On Sunday, the Guardian reported on the US Commotion Wireless project, effectively an open source counter-surveillance P2P wifi network for dissidents run by Sascha Meinrath. “But what certainly is a surprise is the fact that the US state department is providing such people with millions of dollars,” writes the newspaper.

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Merrill is currently working to raise funds to launch his services, and has formed an advisory board that includes Sascha Meinrath from the New America Foundation, former NSA technical director Brian Snow and Jacob Appelbaum from the Tor Project, ...

The New America Foundation today announced the launch of its California Civic Innovation Project -- a new initiative to help local governments throughout California better serve and engage their communities. CCIP will be directed by Alissa Black, who for the last two years has been Code for America’s Government Relations Director.

This year's conference featured keynote speakers includes Dr. Michio Kaku, whose reputation as an authority of Einstein's unified field theory, which he is attempting to complete, is one of the most widely recognized figures in science, Sascha Meinrath, Director of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative and Brene Brown, Ph.D., LMSW, a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work who has spent the past ten years studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame.