Most commonly used medical devices and supplies are simple to manufacture and have been around for decades or centuries. Despite this, they remain expensive and therefore out of reach for health care providers and hospitals in the developing world and even poorer health centres in the developed world.
\r\n\r\nAdvances in rapid prototyping such as 3D printing and Free hardware licenses have recently allowed the local production of high quality medical hardware and devices for a fraction of the cost of proprietary alternatives. Through an organization we have named Glia, we are focusing on three key aspects:
\r\n\r\nIn this lecture, specific examples will be highlighted of countries where medical needs can be met using this approach. Also, the devices and some details of their development will be discussed to enhance understanding of the process for others who wish to use it. Lastly, attendees will be given information on how to participate and collaborate in making their own devices or new devices.
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In recent times, thanks to scientific advancements, reduced manufacturing costs, and increased sophistication in technology and materials, space science has become more commercially and publicly accessible now than in any other time in history - and many private individuals are taking the exploration of space into their own hands, often in direct partnership with formerly unapproachable government agencies.\r\n\r\nA new wave of administrators and executives in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have made great strides in releasing software and hardware technologies used in their space program, as well as the data and imagery produced by their missions, into the worldwide public domain. One of the most successful efforts on their part is the annually occurring grassroots, volunteer-run, community organized space hacker event known as the International Space Apps Challenge.\r\n\r\nIn just three short years, this global citizen effort has created hundreds of open source projects to overcome challenges and improve life on Earth and in space - and NASA continuously collaborates with the grassroots space hacker community in order to further spur open innovation.\r\n\r\nNew York City has been the \"global mainstage\" for the International Space Apps Challenge for two years running, hosted by its local chapter of space hackers: Space Apps NYC. At 1100 members and growing, Space Apps NYC is one of the world's premiere space hacker communities. Over 100 open source projects have been created by its members, and in 2015 their locally organized event included NASA's \"Women in Data\" bootcamp and a conference program of renowned speakers livestreamed worldwide.\r\n\r\nThis talk will cover some of the highlights and history of \"the galaxy's biggest hackathon\", describe and demonstrate some of the best projects created, and discuss the NASA resources that are made freely available for anyone in the world to use for any purpose.","do_not_record":false,"persons":[{"id":5477,"full_public_name":"Mike Caprio"}],"links":[{"url":"http://spaceapps.nyc","title":"Space Apps NYC"},{"url":"http://2015.spaceappschallenge.org","title":"International Space Apps Challenge"},{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTgPOtkPK9RJHULXB0M94dQ/videos","title":"Space Apps NYC on YouTube"}]},{"id":6639,"guid":"85bae1d2-e024-48e9-91e1-d4ecfde18694","logo":null,"date":"2015-08-14T11:15:00+02:00","start":"11:15","duration":"00:30","room":"Project 2501","slug":"camp2015-6639-d-offline_das_drohende_wlan-sterben_was_wir_dagegen_tun_konnen","title":"D-Offline? 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Where we\u2019re going we don\u2019t need keys.","subtitle":"","track":"Security & Hacking","type":"lecture","language":"en","abstract":"Smartlocks are the new way of securing doors by replacing the old mechanical locks by new high-tech and connected locks, able to communicate with other smart devices such as smartphones\r\nand computers.","description":"Vendors argue that \u201ekey dematerialization\u201c is the future of keys, where anybody would be able to give, control and revoke keys for one or multiple locks by using his smartphone. No more physical keys needed for a better control, or not.\r\n\r\nWe\u2019ll go through the challenges of key dematerialization in the actual\r\nworld, from technical challenges to real world implementations ... and failures.\r\n\r\nWidespread smartlocks are not so smart, and developers often fail at\r\ncorrectly implementing cryptographic algorithms (especially when the smartlock is advertised as using a strong AES-256 implementation), and of course security by obscurity is\r\nstill used and broken when dealing with critical embedded systems.\r\n\r\nDuring this talk, we\u2019re going to demonstrate some real world attacks on one of these smartlocks, from information leaks to \u201ewireless lockpicking\u201c through fuzzing.","do_not_record":true,"persons":[{"id":3708,"full_public_name":"Damien Cauquil"}],"links":[]},{"id":6762,"guid":"439d64b1-b08b-4313-87f9-c469211d4206","logo":null,"date":"2015-08-14T16:00:00+02:00","start":"16:00","duration":"00:30","room":"Project 2501","slug":"camp2015-6762-politische_losungen_fur_technische_probleme","title":"Politische L\u00f6sungen f\u00fcr technische Probleme?","subtitle":"IT-Sicherheit per Gesetz","track":"Ethics, Society & Politics","type":"lecture","language":"de","abstract":"Seit Edward Snowden ist IT-Sicherheit nicht mehr nur ein Thema f\u00fcr Konzerne und Verschw\u00f6rungstheoretiker. Sie ist in den Fokus des allgemeinen Interesses geraten. Nicht nur die Marketing-Armeen deutscher und europ\u00e4ischer Unternehmen, sondern auch Politik und Parteien wollen nun schnelles Kapital aus dem Thema schlagen.","description":"","do_not_record":false,"persons":[{"id":3995,"full_public_name":"Linus Neumann"}],"links":[{"url":"http://ccc.de/system/uploads/149/original/StellungnahmeDigitaleAgenda.pdf","title":"CCC-Stellungnahme (pdf): Effektive IT-Sicherheit f\u00f6rdern"},{"url":"http://ccc.de/system/uploads/186/original/ITSG_Stellungnahme.pdf","title":"CCC-Stellungnahme (pdf): Gesetz zur Erh\u00f6hung der Sicherheit informationstechnischer Systeme (IT-Sicherheitsgesetz)"}]},{"id":7046,"guid":"581757d7-5b47-491c-8907-9aa5d235edb8","logo":null,"date":"2015-08-14T16:30:00+02:00","start":"16:30","duration":"00:30","room":"Project 2501","slug":"camp2015-7046-freie_software_gegen_unsere_freiheit","title":"Freie Software gegen unsere Freiheit?","subtitle":"Fighting code-abuse by military and intelligence","track":"Ethics, Society & Politics","type":"lecture","language":"de","abstract":"Geheimdienste, Milit\u00e4rs und ihre Helfer nutzen freie und Open-Source-Software \u2013 weil sie k\u00f6nnen. Sie d\u00fcrfen das, denn wir haben unseren Code ohne Einschr\u00e4nkungen ver\u00f6ffentlicht. Sie d\u00fcrfen das, denn wir haben es ihnen implizit gestattet. Lasst uns das mal \u00e4ndern \u2013 jetzt!","description":"W\u00e4hrend unsere Politik erfolglos versucht, IT-Sicherheitsrisiken per Gesetz zu verbieten oder die Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) der USA und das Italienische Wirtschaftsunternehmen \"Hacking Team\" nachweislich unsere Open-Source-Projekte vereinnahmt um Menschen Schaden zuf\u00fcgen zu k\u00f6nnen, \u00fcberlegen wir uns, an was f\u00fcr Bedingungen wir in Zukunft unsere Open-Source-Software kn\u00fcpfen k\u00f6nnen. Wir drehen den Spie\u00df um: Wir stellen Bedingungen, die verhindern k\u00f6nnen, dass unsere eigenen Erfindungen sp\u00e4ter durch unsere und fremde Regierung gegen uns oder unsere Mitmenschen eingesetzt werden. Es ist mehr als einfach, nur ein politisches Zeichen in Form einer Klausel zu setzen: Wenn wir unsere bestehenden Open-Source-Software-Lizenzen durch eine Non-Military- und Non-Intelligence-Klausel erweitern, dann k\u00f6nnten und sollten Zulieferer und Milit\u00e4rs durchaus in Erw\u00e4gung ziehen, unsere Software nicht mehr zu nutzen. Wenn sie es aber ignorieren und wir das merken, haben wir eine juristische Handhabe, mit der wir eine \u00f6ffentliche Diskussion antreten oder ihnen gar die Nutzung untersagen k\u00f6nnen. Wir stellen einen Vorschlag f\u00fcr eine Non-Military-Usage-Klausel vor und reden \u00fcber Motivation, Risiken und Nebenwirkungen.","do_not_record":false,"persons":[{"id":3901,"full_public_name":"Thorsten Schr\u00f6der"}],"links":[]},{"id":6889,"guid":"f1e0faf3-f906-4abc-8218-9f42e10f8a1c","logo":"/system/logos/6889/medium/bitmask.png?1431931055","date":"2015-08-14T17:15:00+02:00","start":"17:15","duration":"01:00","room":"Project 2501","slug":"camp2015-6889-encrypted_email_for_planet_earth","title":"Encrypted Email for Planet Earth","subtitle":"Failures, Challenges, and the Future","track":"Other","type":"lecture","language":"en","abstract":"After the Snowden revelations, interest in encrypted end-to-end\r\ncommunication has skyrocketed, even amongst ordinary users. However, today\r\nwe still do not have widespread deployment of OpenPGP. Post-email messaging\r\nprotocols such as OpenWhisper has around a million users. Poor\r\nusability has led users in sensitive situations to misunderstand or give up\r\non encryption tools, putting them at risk. Why isn\u2019t everyone encrypting\r\ntheir communications by now? This panel brings together speakers from\r\nsoftware, protocol, and usability projects to reflect on current challenges\r\nto Encrypting All The Things, discuss what has worked and what hasn\u2019t in\r\nFLOSS projects developing secure tools, and possibly develop strategies for\r\nthe future.","description":"After the Snowden revelations, demand for encrypted end-to-end communication has skyrocketed, even amongst ordinary users. As also shown by the catastrophic fate of Lavabit, running a high-security communications provider is fraught with danger, both political and technical. Yet today we see services that essentially sell security \"snake oil\" taking off with users, while real end-to-end encryption is barely used by activists, much less ordinary people. We still have do not have widespread deployment of OpenPGP, and post-email messaging protocols such as OpenWhisper still have less than a million users. Fundamental standards such as OpenPGP existing for over thirty years, but software such as Enigmail is still claimed to be virtually unusable. What is the source of this massive failure, and how can it be fixed? \r\n\r\n How can we combat the fundamental problems afflicting encrypted messaging, from e-mail to beyond, so that it becomes a fundamental right for all people to have end-to-end encrypted messaging? This roundtable will bring together software projects working in this space to reflect on their future, debate their differences, and possibly develop a common strategy for the future. Questions to be addressed are:\r\n\r\n1. Are standards the solution or the problem? The IETF has recently re-opened the OpenPGP mailing list, and there is discussion around the Darkmail (DIME) protocols brewing. However, even the OpenPGP Working Group is not tackling the hard problems of metadata protection. Another strategy is to ditch e-mail entirely and go with new protocols such as TextSecure, but these protocols are still not federated and are thus centralized with particular applications. Decentralized blockchain-based messaging alternatives have also not taken off.\r\n\r\n2. Why is the software still unusable by ordinary users? Two years onwards, we still do not have a better interface than Thunderbird, which has been abandoned by Mozilla. Mailpile is still in beta. Pixelated is still under development. Furthermore, how do we communicate to users if their messages are secure or not?\r\n\r\n3. What research problems remain open? Currently, e-mail leaks metadata through the header, as well as through timing information and network traffic. Keyservers remain broken in terms of authentication and also reveal the social graph while key revocation and signing is difficult. Academic work on mix networking and privacy-enhancing technologies desperately needs to \r\n\r\n4. How can we reach critical mass? Some companies such as OpenWhisper are now working with major providers such as WhatsApp. Others such as LEAP are working so that anyone can run their own provider. Start-ups such as Peer.io and Protonmail are pursuing centralized strategies, and even Gmail and Yahoo! are working on end-to-end encryption. Governments such as Brazil and Germany are pushing for nationalized or public-private partnerships for encrypted email, while business models in the 'privacy market' are still unclear at best and seem to be unable to take into account distributed systems. \r\n\r\nThe goal of this even is to bring together key voices in this space so we combat the fundamental problems afflicting encrypted messaging, from e-mail to beyond, so that it becomes a fundamental right for all people to have end-to-end encrypted messaging.\r\n\r\n\r\n","do_not_record":false,"persons":[{"id":3615,"full_public_name":"harryhalpin"},{"id":5619,"full_public_name":"meskio"},{"id":5545,"full_public_name":"Gus Andrews"},{"id":5634,"full_public_name":"Rabble"}],"links":[{"url":"http://leap.se","title":"LEAP"},{"url":"simplysecure.org","title":"Simply Secure"},{"url":"https://medium.com/@gusandrews/user-personas-for-privacy-and-security-a8b35ae5a63b","title":"User Personas for Security"},{"url":"medium.com/@gusandrews","title":"Gus Andrews on usable security"},{"url":"http://internetfreedom.secondmuse.com/","title":"Second Muse reports on Tibetan exiles and Vietnamese journalists and activists"}]},{"id":6938,"guid":"feefa25c-12e5-4178-9c27-dbcf2afd905a","logo":"/system/logos/6938/medium/ia-tight-480x480.jpg?1432781059","date":"2015-08-14T18:30:00+02:00","start":"18:30","duration":"00:30","room":"Project 2501","slug":"camp2015-6938-locking_the_web_open_call_for_a_distributed_web","title":"Locking the Web Open: Call for a Distributed Web","subtitle":"","track":"Security & Hacking","type":"lecture","language":"en","abstract":"Locking the Net Open: Transforming the Web into a truly distributed system that\u2019s all fun, secure and reliable. Using Javascript, peer-to-peer tech, bitcoin and blockchain, we can build on top of the current web to build a system that protects reader privacy, is reliable against hardware outages and censorship and stays fun.","description":"\r\nMicro version of the talk: http://blog.archive.org/2015/02/11/locking-the-web-open-a-call-for-a-distributed-web/\r\n\r\n20 years after the World Wide Web was created, can we now make it better? How can we ensure that our most important values: privacy, free speech, and open access to knowledge are enshrined in the code itself? In a provocative call to action, entrepreneur and Open Internet advocate, Brewster Kahle, challenges us to build a better, decentralized Web based on new distributed technologies. He lays out a path to creating a new Web that is reliable, private, but still fun\u2014in order to lock the Web open for good.\r\n\r\n","do_not_record":false,"persons":[{"id":5653,"full_public_name":"Brewster Kahle"}],"links":[{"url":"http://blog.archive.org/2015/02/11/locking-the-web-open-a-call-for-a-distributed-web/","title":"Shortform version of the talk"}]},{"id":6795,"guid":"2b4f6479-8241-4ede-b025-328d476c52ba","logo":"/system/logos/6795/medium/gelphi-image.jpg?1439307079","date":"2015-08-14T19:15:00+02:00","start":"19:15","duration":"00:30","room":"Project 2501","slug":"camp2015-6795-mexican_botnet_dirty_wars","title":"Mexican Botnet Dirty Wars","subtitle":"Bots are waging a dirty war in Mexican social media.","track":"Ethics, Society & Politics","type":"lecture","language":"en","abstract":"Pe\u00f1abots have been active in Mexican networks since the 2012 presidential elections. Named after President Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto, armies of bots have become a political weapon to combat protests and attack critics of the Mexican government online. Bots are waging a dirty war in Mexican social media. They are weaponized censors that silence dissent and cover up crimes. ","description":"Developers in Mexico are using a variety of open source tools to create visualizations which are helpful in detecting bots. They are working on new open source software to stop the botnets that have taken over Mexican social media, but they need help. \r\n\r\nI\u2019ve observed several different bot activities in Mexican twitter. I break them down into 5 categories:\r\n\r\n1. Hashtag spamming\r\n2. Making artificial trends\r\n3. Smear campaigns (against media, individual journalists & protesters) 4. Death threat campaigns\r\n5. Political propaganda\r\n\r\nAttached PDF presentation details each category with images & videos.","do_not_record":false,"persons":[{"id":5589,"full_public_name":"Erin Gallagher"}],"links":[{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e78K9BgozU","title":"Los Pe\u00f1abots "}]},{"id":6997,"guid":"f29c721d-4917-4705-aa87-0281d89f8655","logo":null,"date":"2015-08-14T20:00:00+02:00","start":"20:00","duration":"01:00","room":"Project 2501","slug":"camp2015-6997-drones_ships_pills_and_the_internet","title":"Drones, ships, pills and the Internet","subtitle":"Women on waves","track":"Ethics, Society & Politics","type":"lecture","language":"","abstract":"Women on Waves and Women on Web, 2 non profit organisations use all possible loopholes and undetermined legal spaces to make sure that also women in countries where abortion is illegal can access safe abortion services.","description":"Currently 39% of the population lives in countries with highly restrictive abortion laws. An estimated 43.8 million abortions are carried out worldwide each year of which 21 million in countries where abortion is illegal. About one in five pregnancies ends in an abortion. Medical abortion (with pills) is one of the safest procedures in contemporary medical practice, with minimal morbidity and a negligible risk of death. Hoever each year, approximately 21.6 million women worldwide still undergo an illegal and unsafe abortion resulting in an estimated 47000 deaths.\r\nIn response to this medical need, Women on Waves was founded in 1999. On board a Dutch ship, the abortion pill can be provided safely and legally to women with unwanted pregnancies, once it sails outside the territorial waters of countries where abortion is illegal, In response to a growing number of help emails from women around the world, Women on Web, an online medical abortion service, was founded in 2005. Over the years WoW used innovative strategies with ships, mobile phones, apps, printed material, grassroots mobilization, internet, art and now drones as well to draw much-needed public attention to the consequences of unwanted pregnancy and unsafe, illegal abortion and to create access to safe medical abortion. \r\n\r\nThis talk will present the work and challenges of WoW.","do_not_record":false,"persons":[{"id":4116,"full_public_name":"rebecca gomperts"}],"links":[]},{"id":7025,"guid":"b71fb1bd-d089-49c7-bdcc-ff47d219b342","logo":null,"date":"2015-08-14T21:15:00+02:00","start":"21:15","duration":"01:00","room":"Project 2501","slug":"camp2015-7025-terraforming_planet_earth","title":"Terraforming Planet Earth","subtitle":"Practical terraforming technologies for regenerating soils and souls","track":"Ethics, Society & Politics","type":"lecture","language":"en","abstract":"Large parts of the surface of our planet have been devastated by human activity. Terraforming on a human scale is needed to bring these landscapes back to life. The knowledge and technology is there, and you can learn how to use it and participate.","description":"Large scale ecological regeneration needs to be a collaborative participatory process with the direct involvement of all interested people, local and global. Inviting the local population to elevate the physical state of their natural environments, their social and cultural heritage is part of the process of bringing deserts back to life through human-scale terraforming. In a pilot project in Jordan, the Rhizo Camp, these methods are brought to work to ecologicaly restore 15 hectares of land high on Jordan\u2019s mountain ridge, where the essential challenge is scarcity and usage of water. ","do_not_record":false,"persons":[{"id":5732,"full_public_name":"Robert Senftleben"}],"links":[{"url":"greendeserts.wordpress.com","title":"Blog from Robert about the last 9 months of research and contact in and around Jordan"},{"url":"http://knaw.academia.edu/JohnDLiu","title":"The work of John D. Liu, videos, articles, reports, etc. "}]},{"id":6900,"guid":"5b980999-8914-4014-85ae-247bde5be3ce","logo":null,"date":"2015-08-14T22:30:00+02:00","start":"22:30","duration":"01:00","room":"Project 2501","slug":"camp2015-6900-what_s_the_catch","title":"What's the catch?","subtitle":"Funding open source with money from corporations and governments","track":"Ethics, Society & Politics","type":"lecture","language":"en","abstract":"Increasingly, there is money available to fund free software projects; however it often comes from large organizations, governments, and corporations, who all have their own goals and missions. The question becomes, if you decide to work with these groups, is it possible for your project to maintain a set of goals and ethics that are its own? Members of the Open Technology Institute will draw on our experiences in partnering with large interested funders (US Government, Google), and facilitate an audience discussion of how this funding model can work, the challenges that can arise and the complicated ethics around it.\r\n","description":"Creating complicated multi-layered open source projects requires development, maintenance and ongoing commitments. Often, to do these things you need money. Paying developers and hackers can be a way for a project to work towards quality and sustainability, assuring that people have time to fix to bugs, handle support and work with others.\r\n\r\nThere is increasingly money available; however it often comes from source like governments, major tech companies, universities, and large foundations. Each have their own missions and goals that are likely distinct from those of your project. The question becomes, if you decide to work with these funders, is it possible for your project to create and maintain a set of goals that are its own?\r\n\r\nTo be sure, this is not the only way to fund a project, and it is not a good fit for all projects. However, it is a choice that many have made. We want to have a discussion about that choice. Drawing on our experiences in partnerships with USAID (for Commotion Wireless), as well as Google (for the Measurement Lab), members of the Open Technology Institute want to share what we've learned, and facilitate a discussion on what it means to make the choice to pursue these types of funding.\r\n\r\nWe want this to be a broad discussion, with people who have made similar choices (or as importantly the opposite ones), and not a sales pitch for the choices our organization has made. We've discussed this at length amongst ourselves, and are curious to hear what CCC has to say.\r\n\r\nSome questions that we would like to see frame the discussion are:\r\n