Diversity

What techniques help get a more diverse online network?

go to in-person meetups, and try to connect people from different communities

example: using hashtags to cross-pollinate

Q: how do I find people who are interested in privacy (but not privacy advocates)? Can’t only use #privacy
- if it relates to women of color, use #woc
- #tlot (top libertarians), #tcot, #p2
- #gov20 = “government 2.0”

avatar’s important (non-representational)

get interested their issues, not just expect them to be interested in yours

actively looking for different people: e.g., on tribe you can find what others’ interests are

finding diverse communities and being part of them

follow different blogs and participating in the comments

as a tech designer, how to build applications to encourage people to participate and engage in “best practices”
- don’t just “build it white, paint it brown/black/pink”
- engage w/ community and find a problem to help ‘em with
- Shireen and Jill’s apps for democracy example
- Partner w/ orgs like Wellstone, Democracia, … Make it relevant, in a macro sense
- Partner w/ local advocacy orgs

What about children and teens?????

Also take into account different countries and how people react – eg.g, privacy issues can lead to people being killed

What if the community’s goal is to create diversity as part of its structure and then engage elsewhere?

Security culture, privacy advocates, and governments

Best practices of “security culture”: don’t talk about illegal activities, etc. Advocacy orgs need this; so does the state department, etc.
- collateral is useful for both
- NIST’s adding privacy considerations to security standards
- State Dept (etc.) could engage w/ Benetech, etc., while reviewing recommendations
- “security NGO in a box” … not yet for social networks. Can community start with an initial draft?
- “congressional facebook”

non-commercial social network space

- could you have a 501c3 focused on this?
- Wikimedia
- Email’s an example of a free open-source platform
- IM (Jabber as base for GTalk, iChat, …)
- 4chan may be the biggest non-commercial social network