#civilsociety

After we’ve been aware of the fediverse and intending to make a mastodon account for many months, it took us hosting an event about “Reclaiming digital communication spaces” to actually make it happen. Yesterday and today the 7th “Cross Movement Open Space” took place in #Vienna. The format invites representatives of local CSOs to meet and discuss a topic that’s currently relevant to their work. We’ve been organising it regularly for the past 3 years and this time around we were asking: How can we strengthen our digital sovereignty? Should we say goodbye to big tech? Over two days around 40 participants were discussing, workshoping, discovering and skillsharing around these questions. On the afternoon of day 2 some of the participants offered a “practical tips and tricks for starting your mastodon account”-session. One of our team members was there and got us on here. We are excited to have arrived and very greatful to @cypherhippie@chaos.social and @totientfunction@mathstodon.xyz for hyping the #opensocialweb and sharing so much of their wisdom and experience with us :) picture: the session were we made this account! #NeuHier #Wien #Zivilgesellschaft #civilsociety #openspace #Vienna

Christian groups speak out against bill that could lead to land seizure in India Christian mission groups in India are speaking out against proposed changes to the country’s foreign funding law, saying the measure would give the government stronger powers over charities and institutions that use overseas donations for work among poor and marginalized communities. #ChristianMissionsinIndia #HinduNationalism #FCRAAmendment #ForeignFunding #CivilSociety #IndiaMarginalizedCommunities #HinduNationalism Source: https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-groups-oppose-changes-to-indias-foreign-funding-law.html #Faith #ChristianNews #Bible

the arseholes over at #Meta / #Facebook aren’t clueless & naive techies, they’re actively pursuing harmful & unpopular tech in pursuit of money & power like cartoon villains… 🧐 Meta Plans to Add #FacialRecognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses “Five years ago, Facebook shut down the facial recognition system for tagging people in photos on its social network, saying it wanted to find “the right balance” for a technology that raises #privacy and legal concerns. Now it wants to bring facial recognition back. … Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many #CivilSociety groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html#biometrics#USpol