#HackTheBan: Grassroots Tech Groups Fight Trump's Immigration Orders.
(Brooklyn, NEW YORK)
Joined 60+ designers, programmers, lawyers, and immigrant advocates at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering for a 12-hour hackathon to develop tools for communities targeted by Trump's immigration orders. Some groups created apps, while others helped refine existing projects.
CITYLAB: the tech promising to help immigrants push back on trump
There are a growing number of designers, coders, and the like who are developing tools to help the communities at the center of Trump’s policies. From the big coastal cities like NYC and San Francisco, to mid-sized cities like Louisville, Kentucky, they’re teaming up with local nonprofits, joining civic organizations, and attending hackathons that put immigrants front and center.
VOACTIV: Meet The Coders Working To Hack Trump’s Immigration Ban
For 12-hours on a Saturday, more than 60 developers, programmers, designers, and other tech-savvy creatives gathered in Brooklyn to “hack the ban,” under the advisement of immigration experts. #HacktheBan was the latest of a growing number of hacking events focused on the larger mission of resisting policies and sentiments made by the Trump administration.
Among the in-progress projects that came out of the Brooklyn event: an app to help travelers ensure legal representation if detained at an airport; an app aimed at verifying and notifying users of ICE raids in real time; and even one aimed at supporting restaurants serving cuisines of countries listed in the travel ban.
Rewire: Safeguarding free speech, from Zuccotti Park to Syria.
What happens when Occupy Wall Street protestors, anti-fascism activists, World Wide Web Consortium technologists and open source security experts work together? They found it was important to discuss their work over secure channels, and needed something so easy to use that individual activists could pick it up. The result was a technology that powers the secure RiseUp encrypted email service used by journalists and advocates for press freedom — Laura Poitras used it to make contact with Edward Snowden — as well as pro-democracy activists in countries like Syria.