[Ssc-dev] Fwd: Re: ITP-connected project in the Economist

[Nathan of Guardian]

A little promotion to Dan-O and the ITP folks.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: ITP-connected project in the Economist
Date: 	Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:24:59 -0500
From: 	Dan O'Sullivan <dan.osullivan at nyu.edu>
Reply-To: 	dan.osullivan at nyu.edu
To: 	Nathan Freitas <nathan at freitas.net>
CC: 	Midori L Yasuda <midori.yasuda at nyu.edu>, George E Agudow
<george.agudow at nyu.edu>



Nathan,

Fantastic stuff.  Thanks for the update and thanks for making the
connections to ITP and NYU.  Midori maybe we could link to the some
press about the Guardian project in News and Events?

Thanks,
Dan

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Nathan Freitas <nathan at freitas.net
<mailto:nathan at freitas.net>> wrote:


    One of the things I do besides be an adjunct at ITP is lead the Guardian
    Project, an open-source mobile security for activist project.
    We've been getting some good coverage of our work on "secure smart
    cameras" and our specific app called ObscuraCam, including this great
    piece in the Economist (see attachment and links below):

    video:
    http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/01/technology-and-democracy
    story: http://www.economist.com/node/21542748

    Much of this work comes from ITP in various ways, that I thought you
    might appreciate:

    1) The team working on this from the Guardian Project and WITNESS
    involves many ITP folks: Shawn Van Every, Bryan Nunez, Hans-Christoph
    Steiner, Harlo Holmes (MCC / ITP2800 student in 2010), and myself (not a
    grad, just an adjunct!). Most amazingly people are actually getting paid
    by grants to work on this, so hopefully it can be shown as viable career
    path for "what to do when you graduate ITP".

    https://guardianproject.info/apps/securecam/
    http://witness.org/cameras-everywhere/witness-labs

    2) The "ObscuraCam" concept began at the OVC 2010 hackday hosted at ITP:
    http://blog.witness.org/2010/10/ovc2010-opensubtitles/

    so +1 for hosting events, hackdays, gatherings, etc.

    3) Harlo Holmes MA, Media, Cultre and Communication), was my student in
    ITP2800 last year, and much of the idea behind the work came from her
    class project and NYU masters thesis. Having the cross-pollination
    between NYU departments makes quite a bit of sense, and has benefited my
    ITP2800 class greatly. This project has also been presented at Helen
    Nissembaum's Privacy Research Lab group.

    I think that is all the connections (for now), but I am sure down the
    road we'll find a way to link in with Processing or have Clay write
    about us. :)

    Best,
     Nathan