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Cryptography for Grassroots Organizing
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| Abstract: | Grassroots organizers are people who work from within communities to effect economic, environmental, social, or political change. Engagement, communication, and trust between community members are vital to the success of grassroots movements. Grassroots organizers have therefore developed long-standing community-based trust and communication protocols that are grounded in physical community spaces such as schools, libraries, town halls, community centers, places of worship, parks, and streets. Digital networking tools afford organizers the ability to engage more people, quickly disseminate important information, and decentralize movements for change. However, they also increase the level of personal risk that communities face by organizing, since the visibility of personal information and communication on social media facilitates surveillance, disinformation, infiltration, and ultimately physical violence from law enforcement, hate groups, and foreign governments. In this talk, we will explore the question: How might we use cryptographic tools to adapt the existing trust and communication protocols of grassroots organizers from physical to digital spaces, without increasing the risk of surveillance, disinformation, and infiltration of grassroots movements? |
| Video: | https://youtu.be/c4kZdsoV8ns?t=1786 |
BibTeX
@misc{rwc-2023-35449,
title={Cryptography for Grassroots Organizing},
note={Video at \url{https://youtu.be/c4kZdsoV8ns?t=1786}},
howpublished={Talk given at RWC 2023},
author={Leah Namisa Rosenbloom and Seny Kamara},
year=2023
}