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International Civic Tech Call (Russia-Ukraine)

The purpose of this resource is to track notes for calls amongst members of international #civictech communities, regarding opportunities to support those directly affected by the Ukraine-Russian conflict (with secondary purpose of disseminating info locally).

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Meeting link: link.civictech.ca/gathertown

Table of Contents

2022-02-27

When? Sun, Feb 27 @ 10:30 ET / 12:30am Japan / 11:30pm Taiwan (45 min)
Who's here? bess (@taiwan), dai (@japan), patcon (@canada)
Where? https://link.civictech.ca/gathertown

Summary

Notes

  • dai: what communities are you in?
    • pc: 2-3 leading, ~20 involved
  • pc: today update
  • dai: goals for coming weeks?
    • bess
      • in g0v we always have some hackmd page for crises or events
      • we always have some discussion there. lots of information. to let more TW people know the true situation
      • not much true info in TV news, but most ppl watch that
      • important bc china wishes to create misinfo, so important to fact-check for us
      • don't know if we can support more or not
      • any lessons we can learn from this war. how can TW protect itself
        • ++ dai. putin becoming weaker.
        • china also watching, and can learn from putin's mistakes, and make better moves
        • and DAO Ukraine https://twitter.com/Ukraine_DAO
  • watching anon activity: can we trust?
    • bess: very different from civic tech
    • don't know who they are
    • pc: for me, anon just an info source (to fact check) and a source to recruit from (participants)
  • dai: many speaking on social media in japan, seems ok
    • diff goal in japan than taiwan?
  • pc: inspired by how g0v reacts in crisis. and maybe coronovirus tech handbook effort.
    • tried to create similar, but didn't push enough
  • bess: had meetings for specific systems.
    • meetings with covid japan to translate websites into japanese
    • covid pad: https://g0v.hackmd.io/@yitzu/covid-19
    • ukraine: https://g0v.hackmd.io/@chihao/ukraine
    • train crash: https://g0v.hackmd.io/c/20210402TarokoCrash
    • bess: we have a template for these sorts of crises #todo
      • heh not ACTUAL TEMPLATE
    • maybe can try bilingual? can add more
      • dia: what % speaks english in g0v/tw? bess: not sure. there are some. but we did it for the general people, and there are lots of immigrant labour in Taiwan.
      • dia: do you spread english websites? what do you do with mandarin pages when you want to show to other countries people? are people negative about machine translation or are you ok?
        • bess: have lots of ppl to translate into diff languages. but if you wish to help with ML, that's welcome too
      • pc: cautious about using automation to replace low-hanging opportunities for people to become engaged. translators are also recruiters and they engage in other work after, etc etc
  • dai: should we create a special channel or keep in general? bess: keep in general for now.
  • bess created new channel #ukraine
  • decide no more daily calls
    • interest in maybe a weekly call later (will decide later)
  • #idea pc: help people get access to vkontakte (russian facebook). my old account was deleted, and accused of "suspicious activity" when i try to register again. maybe opportunity to help outsiders (civic tech, journalists, peacekeepers, activists, etc) get in and interact with russian people in their own digital home.
    • pc: interested to share polis links there
    • #idea matchmaking service for borrowing vkontakt accounts?

2022-02-26

When? Sat Feb 26 @ noon pm ET / 2am Japan (45 min)
Who's here? dai (japan), patcon (canada)

  • at protest. russian nationals. stop swift. stop relations with putin. strongest action in japan.
  • worried about ukraine prez
  • intros
    • startup. specialty math + ML. CEO of company so can control own time. peace is priority for JP. personally, grandma saw hiroshima.
  • patcon. tech building power between people, instead of within people.
    • missed
  • daisuke: visited a town in 2014 of ppl who left russia. not happy with putin.
    • what's the purpose is this war for regular russians
  • intervention
  • hopeful tracks
    • consensus building across dividse with polis. disrupt reductions
  • discussion black&white. option to action. appeal to the gov. petition. donation.
    • name options.
    • concrete actions are the right for you? normal citizens might be mini actions. cannot dedicate long hours to projects like this.
  • maybe we could publish idea on hackmd.
    • make my decision first and then publish.
  • #idea create a doc hacknight
    • assign
    • secretary to copy-paste between
    • prefer markdown
    • human bridge
    • don't code first, do manually
    • doing
    • tree structure
      • toggle UI
      • old email system. update. when ppl update. old g0v project
      • centralize hackmd. email updates.
    • hackmd, copy to gdrive.
    • daisuke: universal access matters. more ppl.
      • maybe PDF
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