[committee] FW: Up For Another Event?

[blackknight at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au]

As you can see below, the business of the day seems to be focussed on
digital rights and what's moving in the internet surveillance scene.

 

I've told Tim that I'm happy to go ahead with this; he's going to get back
to me with a date and venue.

The UCC committee has been asked to put forward a chairperson for the event
- is anyone particularly keen? I'd take it myself but I don't think I'm
quite conversant in the issues at hand.

 

Dylan

 

From: Tim Sondalini [mailto:sondalini at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 23 January 2013 1:47 PM
To: Dylan Kerr
Subject: RE: Up For Another Event?

 

Dylan,

To be frank, I'm not interested in an Assange-fest either. 

I'm organising this event to increase the reputation of the Politics Club,
not out of an ulterior motive. I gather that the Senator's motivation is
simply to try and increase his name brand. Ms Robinson is being brought to
Australia by CASE for Refugees, the Greens have simply managed to persuade
her to speak at the event. She will probably speak about Wikileaks and
Assange, but i gather her focus will be on digital rights.

If you look at the schedule below, you'll see that a lot of the emphasis is
on digital rights and human rights. Wikileaks is just a way to catch a
crowd.

The current plan is for the event to follow this hesitant schedule:

So we'll have

 

Chair - Welcome and introduce speakers - Rep from Comp or Politics Clubs

 

Julian Assange - video message - not yet confirmed but he's thinking about
it - message to students

 

Senator Scott Ludlam - confirmed - general setting of the scene on trends in
the erosion of our human rights and civil liberties online, treatment of
whistleblowers alarming data retention proposals and increasing surveillance
laws that allow governments and corporations to assemble detailed commercial
profiles and intimate details of our online and offline lives.

 

Jen Robinson - confirmed - The Wikileaks case - the legal and human rights
significance 9of what's happening to Julian and Wikileaks

 

Benny Wenda - confirmed - state surveillance that impacts and deters
activists, human rights and social justice work (the West Papua example)

 

Jacob Appelbaum - Skype - not confirmed  - All about TOR and why encryption
is the key to protecting our privacy - issues arising from his book with
Julian et all called Freedom and the Future of the Internet

 

Michael Sinclair-Jones - not yet asked - will think more about it tomorrow -
it might be distracting to get into the whole media / press and the internet
thing, but I'll run it by Scott

 

Wrap up - Thanks for coming - Rep from Comp or Politics Clubs

I hope that reassures your concerns.

 

Cheers,

 

Tim

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