cts

On November 26-28, 2012, the Open Internet Tools Project (OpenITP) and Information Security Coalition hosted the second Circumvention Tech Summit (CTS) in Tunis, Tunisia. The summit report is now available.

View the CTS II Tunis Report

The event attracted over 100 international and local participants interested in improving the tools and training available for circumventing Internet censorship and surveillance. This included developers from Tunis and neighboring countries, and a sizable group of Syrian activists. Additionally, various key organizations and projects were represented, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

The following are popular conversations
and ideas that permeated the summit.

[OpenITP](http://openitp.org/) and the [Information Security Coalition (ISC)](http://informsec.net/) will be hosting the second annual Circumvention Tech Summit (CTS) from **November 26-28 in Tunis, Tunisia**. The summit is designed to increase dialog between internet freedom developers, community activists, and individuals interested in improving the tools and training available for circumventing internet censorship and surveillance.

Notably, this year's summit will feature tech-activists from Syria, a country where tools such as encryption technology can mean the difference between life and death. They will share their experience as well as best practices acquired on the ground. Goals of the summit include:

Thanks to everybody that joined us in Rio de Janeiro for the Circumvention Tech Summit. We hosted over 70 people for two days of intense workshops and design sessions. Everybody met everybody, and a lot of information was shared. More importantly, we all left with specific plans for further work, and I am excited to help realize those plans.

My followups include getting a wiki and a mailing list together. I will do that this weekend. Also, I promised a write-up and photos. Kat Green is working on those and we will publish them as soon as they are available.

Special thanks are due to Karl Fogel, Kat Green, Brian Duggan, Joseph Steele, and Eric LoVecchio. They kept the balls in the air and helped ensure the event was worthwhile for all the participants. And also, a big thanks to whoever hacked hotel security to get into my room and leave me a present. I got a big kick out of it.

If you missed the Circumvention Tech Summit, don't worry. We'll do another in the fall. And also a more proper hackfest in New York, right before HOPE. Stay tuned for details.

On June 1st and 2nd, 2012, the Open Internet Tools Project will convene developers from various Internet freedom and censorship-circumvention projects, along with some of their users and other interested parties. The approximate size of the gathering is 50-100 people. Its purpose is to discover and promote points of collaboration between technical projects that implement and preserve the principles of a free and open Internet.