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CYBERnyama

8 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago -

where meatspace meets cyberspace

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CYBERnyama008 Facebook External Oversight Board Workshop Nairobi

March 28, 2019 08:00 - 26 minutes - 21.6 MB

CYBERnyama covers Facebook's External Oversight Board Workshop, which took place on the 26-27 March 2019 in Nairobi Kenya. This is the third round in Facebook's consultations regarding the setting up of an External Oversight Board, which is to provide oversight of Facebook's decisions with regards to content. We speak to: Facebook Director of Public Policy for Africa, Ebele Okobi - Tunji Larnder, a human being (@TunjiLardner) - Archippe Njampong of Internet Without Borders (@Archyppe), - ...

CYBERnyama007 CYBERnyama07 - Barrett Brown (part 1)

February 25, 2019 20:36 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MB

Today we dial into Dallas Texas to speak to Barrett Brown, a journalist, activist and satirist who has written for amongst others, the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, the Guardian, and the Intercept. Barrett is also a winner of the National Magazine Award. Barrett is the founder of Pursuance Project, an open source software currently under development, that enables individuals to organise in the pursuit of shared goals. In 2011 Barrett was loosely collaborating with people in the collec...

CYBERnyama006 Digital Rights in Kenya

February 05, 2018 09:15 - 33 minutes - 33.7 MB

Over the last week in Kenya there has been a shutdown of TV stations as well as a crack down on opposition members. We look at the current digital rights environment, focusing on current threat to freedom of expression in Kenya. Our guest on the podcast is Ephrahim Percy Kenyanito (@ekenyanito), Digital Programme Officer Article 19 Eastern Africa. We also have a new co-host and podcaster on this episode; Collins. We discuss digital rights and freedom of expression in Kenya, shutdowns, data p...

CYBERnyama005 Telecommunications Infrastructure in Africa

February 01, 2018 15:48 - 44 minutes - 20.7 MB

We speak to Steve Song about his Africa Telecoms Infrastructure in 2017 report. We discuss the state of Africa's telecommunications infrastructures including undersea cables, terrestrial backbone fibre, streaming, wireless technologies, spectrum, and the concept of universal basic internet.

CYBERnyama004 Bots (Part I): InstaPy

January 26, 2018 18:32 - 45 minutes - 20.5 MB

This is the first of a series in which we investigate bots. We speak to Tim Großmann, founder and lead developer of an Instagram automation project - InstaPy. A set of tools that can automate an Instagram account's activity, as well as be used to make an Instagram 'bot'. If you are interested in Instagram, automation, bots, Python, or social media then give this episode a listen. We will also discuss how to get InstaPy running, if you want a bot, or to play with InstaPy. Visit CYBERyama.net...

CYBERnyama003 Digital rights in Africa

January 17, 2018 10:27 - 45 minutes - 21 MB

Today we dial in to Lagos, Nigeria to speak to 'Gbenga Sesan, Tunde Okunoye, and Sodiq Alabi of Paradigm Initiative about the Digital Rights in Africa 2017 report.

CYBERnyama002 Dialling in to Chaos Communication Congress (34C3)

December 31, 2017 16:21 - 37 minutes - 17.1 MB

We dial in to the 34th Annual Chaos Communication Congress (34C3) and speak to two attendees: Eva Fitzelová and Johannes Mueller, hosts of the Esperanto language podcast Kern Punkto. We talk about the Congress, podcasting, the Esperanto language, and allegations that the event is not doing enough to protect attendees from harassment and sexual abuse.

CYBERnyama001 Internet governance I

December 21, 2017 16:41 - 37 minutes - 17.2 MB

The twelfth annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is currently concluding in Geneva, Switzerland. In our first episode we kick off with the beginning of our investigation into internet governance. Today's guest is Michael Oghia (@mikeoghia), an internet governance consultant. Its a great chance for steakholders in the internet to come and chew the fat with us and discuss internet governance and the #IGF2017.

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