Tech Liberty
Thomas Beagle blogs on the first year of operations for Tech Liberty. In the last year they have:
- Written 70 articles for our website and published two guest editorials (security risks of internet filtering, copyright).
- Received 15,000 visitors who looked at 27,000 pages and left 134 comments.
- Made two written (Copyright, Search and Surveillance) and one oral submission (Search & Surveillance) to Parliamentary Select Committees.
- Established an @TechLiberty Twitter presence with 287 followers and 469 updates.
- Assisted people in their legal issues with Customs and Sky TV.
- Written a guest editorial about internet filtering for the National Business Review.
- Been quoted in a variety of online and print media and been interviewed on TV and radio.
Next year looks as busy. Their plans:
As part of this we’re also looking at changing how we do things:
- We are investigating what is involved with becoming a mass-membership organisation.
- We intend to establish a fund to help finance our work.
- Improving our internal communications so we can better support contributors all over the country.
And they want more people involved:
What we do need is more people to help us with this work.
We are currently a Wellington-based collective but we’re looking for people across the country who can help us with one or more of the following roles:
- Join the core collective and work with us to develop Tech Liberty.
- Providing professional legal assistance to help us in interpreting current and proposed laws and helping people who face legal problems.
- Adopt an issue and become our internal expert, writing articles and submissions about it.
- Assist us with advice about becoming a membership organisation.
Or, if you’ve just got a bee in your bonnet about a particular issue, write us a guest editorial.
Read about our principles and then send us an email, we’d love to hear from you.
Tech Liberty do some great work. Touch base with them if you can help them out.