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Patriot Act case against volunteer Muslim webmaster

The only person so far that has been prosecuted under an overly broad Patriot Act provision for providing "expert advice or assistance" is a Muslim volunteer webmaster from Boise, Idaho. He was just acquitted by a jury which thankfully did not believe that being the webmaster for a charity that had hostile speech written by others was any sort of crime. This is also the only case involving the use of the Internet to support terrorism. Posted: 11/22/04; 9:32:22 AM #

New Tactics in Human Rights

I'm very interested in models for supporting innovation in the social sector and encouraging the spread of new ideas. The Center for Victims of Torture have developed an idea exchange database as part of their New Tactics in Human Rights project. You can browse the database and search by keyword, but most importantly, you can contribute to the spread of new tactics by adding to the database. Posted: 11/22/04; 9:32:14 AM #

New Tactics Workbook

The New Tactics Workbook is a fantastic resource for people working on human rights issues. It's available as a collection of PDF documents on topics such as Remembering Abuses and Removing Opportunities for Abuse, as well as topics of interest to nonprofits in general, such as Strengthening Individuals and Communities and Collaboration. I highly recommend this material, but unless I'm mistaken, their download method will prove very frustrating. Posted: 11/22/04; 9:32:06 AM #

Gifting technologies

One of the things I focus on when I consult about knowledge management is how to support the production of knowledge by making it easy for people to share what they know, rather than focusing on just making it easy to be a knowledge consumer. So, I was very pleased to read Kevin McGee and Jörgen Skågeby's paper on Gifting Technologies at First Monday. They are asking the very important questions: What needs and concerns do gifters have and what technologies can be developed to help them? Posted: 11/22/04; 9:31:47 AM #