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WEBCAST TODAY: The Past, Present and Future of Accessibility in Mozilla Hubs – Dan Fernie-Harper
by Joly MacFie 20 May '21

20 May '21

Happy Global Accessibility Global Awareness Day! Apart from this A11yVR event A11ySIG will be streaming, a whole bunch more is happening, see https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/events/ ISOC Live posted: "On Thursday May 20 2021 at 19:00 EDT / 23:00 UTC / 08:00 JST (Fri) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts 'The Past, Present and Future of Accessibility in Mozilla Hubs' on Mozilla Hubs. The Mozilla Hubs team highly values the accessibility community's voice i" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr14>On* Thursday May 20 2021* at *19:00 EDT / 23:00 UTC / 08:00 JST* (Fri) the *Accessibility VR Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/A11yVR/>* hosts '*The Past, Present and Future of Accessibility in Mozilla Hubs <https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/277665999/>*' on Mozilla Hubs. The Mozilla Hubs team highly values the accessibility community's voice in helping to make Hubs a more usable and accessible product. *Dan Fernie-Harper <https://twitter.com/fernzharp>* from the Hubs Design and People Experiences team will present an update on accessibility in Mozilla Hubs, speaking about the user experience design process. The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the* Internet Society Accessibility SIG <https://a11ysig.org>* (A11ySIG). *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr14 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr14>* (open captions) *PARTICIPATE: https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/ <https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/> *(open captions) *REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr>* *TWITTER: @a11yvr <http://bit.ly/A11yVR> @fernzharp @MozillaHubs #GAAD #VR #XR* *SIMULCASTS *(open captions) *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://youtu.be/V5U_jrufweA <https://youtu.be/V5U_jrufweA>* *ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/a11yvr14 <https://archive.org/details/a11yvr14>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14040/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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DCOSS 2021 Workshops -- Extended Submission Date May 21st - Online Format
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 19 May '21

19 May '21

DCOSS 2021 Workshops Extended Submission Date May 21st - Online Format Call for Papers https://dcoss.org/workshops/ Due to the pandemic, DCOSS 2021 Workshops will be held in an online manner, without physical attendance. Still, all accepted papers will be included in the IEEE Proceedings as planned, in the same volume with the main event. Reduced registration fees will apply. Workshops constitute an essential part of the technical program of the annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS) 2021. The aim of the conference workshops is to emphasize emerging topics not specifically covered in the main conference. The workshops will highlight current topics related to scientific and technical issues in communications and networking, and include a mix of regular papers and invited talks and presentations in order to encourage the participation of attendees in active discussion. Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers for the Workshops for presentation at the conference and publication in the DCOSS 2021 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore. Submission deadline is extended until May 21st. Please refer to the websites of the workshops for author guidelines, and address all questions to the DCOSS 2021 Workshops Chairs: Enrico Natalizio, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE, enrico.natalizio(a)loria.fr<mailto:enrico.natalizio@loria.fr> Zhangyu Guan, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA, guan(a)buffalo.edu<mailto:guan@buffalo.edu> DCOSS 2021 workshops DACI 2021 (1st International Workshop on on Decentralized AI and Computing on IoT) https://sites.google.com/view/daci2021/home IoTI4 2021 (3rd International Workshop on IoT Applications and Industry 4.0) https://ioti4-2021.web.uowm.gr/ ISIoT 2021 (3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Systems for the Internet of Things) https://sites.google.com/view/urbcom-2021/ ML-SWiN 2021 (1st International Workshop on Machine Learning for Smart Wireless Networks) https://ml-swin-workshop.github.io/ REFRESH 2021 (2nd International Workshop on Real-life Modeling in 5G Networks and Beyond) https://refresh2021.github.io/#/ SmaCE 2021 (3rd International Workshop on Smart Circular Economy) https://sites.google.com/view/smace2021/ UrbCom 2021 (3rd International Workshop on Urban Computing) https://sites.google.com/view/urbcom-2021/ WCNEE 2021 (Wireless Communications and Networking in Extreme Environments) http://wcnee.eng.fau.edu/ Wi-DroIT 2021 (3rd International Workshop on Wireless Drones over Internet of Things) https://widroit2021.github.io/ WPSN 2021 (3rd International Workshop on Wirelessly Powered Systems and Networks) https://wpsn2021.github.io/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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REFRESH 2021 - 2nd International Workshop on Real-life modeling in 5G networks and beyond – Submission: May 21, 2021
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 19 May '21

19 May '21

2nd International Workshop on Real-life modeling in 5G networks and beyond – REFRESH 2021 https://refresh2021.github.io/#/ Co-located with The 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2021) Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus June 7 - 9, 2021 www.dcoss.org<http://www.dcoss.org/> DCOSS is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing – TCPP Scope and Overview The economic and societal potential of emerging 5G and cyber-physical social systems is vastly greater than what has been realized so far, and major investments are being made worldwide to develop the corresponding science and technology. The Future Internet paradigm, the proliferation of emerging networks and architectures, wireless access technologies and multi-homing smart devices are evolving towards a competitive environment, where users and devices have access to various resources, while their behaviors become strongly interdependent. This fact demands and motivates the development of user-centric resource management and optimization frameworks, which enable user’s self-optimization and autonomy. This vision is further motivated and supported by the convergence of various emerging technologies enabling Cyber-Physical Systems operation, including 5G/B5G technologies, Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile Edge Computing and Software Defined Networking, all targeting flexibility and efficiency. To deal with the involved complexity, and driven by the requirements of autonomy and scalability, distributed resource orchestration approaches appear as a necessity rather than a desire. The REFRESH Workshop aims at to stimulate research on the most novel topics of real-life modeling in 5G networks and beyond. This year’s edition encourages submission of theoretical and experimental work (including studies of real deployment), with a primary interest in new directions of wireless networking in concrete application scenarios and demonstrators in areas such as, but not limited to: mobile edge computing, Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, public safety networks, dynamic spectrum utilization, smart grid communications, wireless power communication, green wireless networks, information-centric wireless networks. The workshop seeks original work presented in the form of research papers describing new research and development approaches and results, as well as work-in-progress papers. Highly disruptive work-in-progress and position papers are also welcome, provided they focus on particularly innovative solutions or applications for 5G networks and beyond. All papers shall be forward-looking, describe their relationship to existing work, and shall argue their impact and implications for ongoing or future research. Selected workshop papers will also be considered for publication in a Special Issue and/or Special Sections of international peer-reviewed journals. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to * 5G Cellular systems and beyond * Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces * Integrated Access and Backhaul * Channel modeling and measurements * Cloud/CRAN-based networks5G/B5G/6G Networks * Millimeter-wave and THz communication technologies * Massive MIMO * Multi-modal sensing/sourcing * Cognitive radio networks, dynamic spectrum access and emerging applications and services * Wireless power transfer and energy harvesting for wireless networks * Delay tolerant networks * Wireless communications on different media * End-to-end protocols, flow and congestion control * Artificial intelligence and machine learning for wireless networks * Attack modelling, prevention, mitigation, and defense in wireless networks * Security, Reliability, Privacy and Trust in Wireless Networks * Green Wireless Networks * Heterogeneous, Small-Cell and Dense networks * Information-centric wireless networks * Internet of Things * Pervasive and wearable computing and networking * Public Safety Networks * Social wireless networks * Quality of Service provisioning and management in 5G networks and beyond * Quality of Experience and User Experience in 5G networks and beyond * Software-defined wireless networks * Vehicular wireless networks * Wireless mesh networks * Wireless multimedia networks * Wireless network virtualization * Multiple Access, Radio Resource Management, Interference Management and Scheduling * Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Networks * Hybrid communication systems (e.g., satellite/unmanned aerial vehicles/terrestrial/wireline hybrids) * Machine learning-based resource allocation for wireless networks * Reinforcement learning and deep learning for 5G networks and beyond * Architectures, models, security, and approaches for smart grid networks * Economics and pricing for 5G networks and beyond * Smart Cities supported by 5G networks and beyond * Scalability, Robustness and Resilience in 5G networks and beyond Submission Guidelines General Paper Format Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on real-life modeling in 5G networks and beyond related to REFRESH workshop’s topics of interest. Please use the US letter size (8.5 X 11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template available on the link below: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html All submissions should be written in English and submitted as a full or work-in-progress paper. Full papers should have a maximum of eight (8) printed pages including figures and references. Full papers are expected to describe fully developed ideas with a thorough evaluation. Work-in-progress papers should have a maximum of four (4) printed pages including figures and references. Work-in-progress papers are expected to describe new and interesting ideas that have not yet reached full maturity. Note that REFRESH does not follow the double-blind review policy. The names and affiliations of all the authors must be present in the submitted manuscript. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the DCOSS 2021 conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Submission Site Please submit your papers in PDF format using the following paper submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=refresh2021 Program Committee Chairs Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA) Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Important Dates Submission: May 21, 2021 Notification: June 11, 2021 Camera Ready: June 18, 2021 Early Registration: July 5, 2021 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab’s News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” ~ Aristotle

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Digital literacies for a healthy democracy - DCMS Committee events - 11+18 June
by Carmi, Elinor 19 May '21

19 May '21

Hello everyone, I hope you're all keeping well and safe these days. As part of my Parliamentary Academic Fellowship project - "Digital literacies for a healthy democracy" - with the UK's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee, I'm organising two events on the future of digital literacies. The two events - one UK focused and one international focused - will bring together academics, practitioners and policymakers to discuss the current digital literacies landscape and talk about possible future paths. UK focused event - Friday 11th June at 14:00 (BST time). 1. Seyi Akiwowo - Glitch UK. 2. Hafsha Dadabhai Shaikh - Get Families Talking. 3. Sally Dyson - The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO). 4. Professor Simeon Yates - Liverpool University. Register for this FREE event here -> https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dcms-committee-digital-literacy-event-uk-foc… International focused event - Friday 18th June at 14:00 (BST time). 1. Professor Payal Arora - Erasmus University, FemLab.Co and Catalyst Lab. 2. Marielza Oliveira - UNESCO. 3. Professor Colin Rhinesmith - Simmons University and Community Informatics Lab. 4. Professor Marie Gillespie - Open University. Register for this FREE event here -> https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dcms-committee-digital-literacy-event-intern…. The Twitter hashtag for the events is #DCMSComLiteracy. The discussions are meant to raise important issues around digital literacies in different contexts. The beginning of the panel will start with questions prepared in advance and then the discussion will be open for questions from the audience that will be asked on the Q&A section. Insights from the event will be included in a final report for the DCMS Committee. If you're an academic, practitioner, activist, educator, or policymaker working in the areas of: - digital/data literacies - digital/data inequalities - digital/data inclusion - all topics around education Please join the debate! Your participation and contribution are extremely valuable to this work. Any questions or comments please feel free to email me. Take care and best wishes, Dr. Elinor Carmi, Postdoc Research Associate - Digital Media & Society, Department of Communication and Media, Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences, School of the Arts, Liverpool University, UK. https://elinorcarmi.com<https://elinorcarmi.com/> Twitter: @Elinor_Carmi

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2yrs Postdoc position at the NERDS group @ IT University of Copenhagen
by Luca Rossi 19 May '21

19 May '21

In the NERDS group at the IT University of Copenhagen we're looking for a 2 years postdoc working on modelling social dynamics in science. The postdoc will work with Roberta Sinatra on the topic of Science of Science and Algorithmic fairness. The project will involve the analysis of large-scale datasets, running controlled experiments, and modelling social dynamics in science. Our priority is to attract technically strong researchers who are interested in asking bold, new questions with data. Both salary and working conditions are excellent. The group is a down-to-earth and fun place to be. Copenhagen is often named as the best city in the world to live in, and for good reasons. It's world-renowned for food, beer, art, music, architecture, the Scandinavian "hygge", and much more. The position is a full-time position, funded for 24 months. See more details and apply in the official call<https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181…>. If you are interested feel free to reach out to Roberta Sinatra at rsin(a)itu.dk<mailto:rsin@itu.dk>. Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards Luca Rossi, PhD IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen E-mail: lucr(a)itu.dk Room: 5D21 Phone: +45 7218 5036 www.itu.dk<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.itu.dk…>

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An appeal!
by Hakikur Rahman 19 May '21

19 May '21

To all my friends, colleagues and well wishers: This is an appeal to you that Google has removed the knowledge box against the search with my name, Hakikur Rahman <https://www.facebook.com/hakikur.rahman?__cft__[0]=AZWoisDOA_S3wPA3OY98reJH…>. For over a decade it was there at the right side of the search screen, where their system has placed all of my book's pictures and their respective links. It not only assisted me, but also assisted my valued readers to obtain my books at the same platform. Not sure what are the reasons behind it. However, my fervent request to you to send a feedback to Google. For this, please go to Google, or Chrome, or Firefox, or any browser that you use and give a name search with my name. If the knowledge box does not appear, please send a feedback to the Google authority with the screenshot. Many thanks in advance. Remain safe.

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Fully funded international PhD position in regulating computational platform infrastructures at UCL Laws
by Veale, Michael 18 May '21

18 May '21

UCL Faculty of Laws is offering a fully funded 3-year Home/Overseas PhD studentship in technology policy and law, open to candidates from a wide variety of disciplines, funded by the Fondation Botnar. * Topic: Regulating platform computational and sensing infrastructures, with an emphasis on the global dimension and regulating from the perspective of poorer countries. * Supervised by Dr Michael Veale (Lecturer in Digital Rights and Regulation at UCL) * Open to: Anyone with a background in law or technology policy, understood broadly. Details and how to apply: http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/files/UCLLawsPhD.pdf More details: UCL Faculty of Laws is offering a fully funded 3-year Home/Overseas PhD studentship in Law, focussing on regulating platform infrastructures in the Global South. This is part of the ‘Real Time Epidemiology’ project (UCL investigator Dr Michael Veale, partners EPFL, ETH Zürich, TU Delft, 3db Technologies) funded by the Fondation Botnar. The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred interest in using sensors, both on existing devices like smartphones, as well as bespoke devices, to support granular, rapid, public health interventions. The Real Time Epidemiology Project has experience of this, having created two protocols (‘DP-3T’ Bluetooth tracing and ‘CrowdNotifier’ QR-code-based COVID exposure risk alerts), versions of which have been widely deployed around the world during the pandemic. Sensor networks are also changing, with new technologies emerging that are more precise (such as Ultra Wide Band, used by Apple’s ‘AirTags’) or longer in range (such as LoRa/Amazon ‘Sidewalk’). At the same time, some desire to make use of data, including from such sensors, for various notions of public benefit, for example through ‘data trusts’, ‘data foundations’ or ‘data altruism’. The societal, technical and legal considerations concerning who gets to use, alter, assemble and dismantle such platform sensing infrastructures are complex. Private companies, such as Apple and Google, control hardware, operating systems and software distribution networks (app stores), through a range of technical and legal means. Their vertical integration can mean that software struggles to make use of sensors in the vast majority of devices they manage without their blessing. Private standard-setting bodies, such as the IETF or the IEEE, have had important roles in shaping this area. Some jurisdictions have tried, or are currently experimenting with, approaches to governing infrastructures (e.g. the EU’s Digital Markets Act). Governments also desire to use these networks in very different ways: some have strong wariness about turning citizens into sensors, others see it as a way to surveil or even optimise their populations. Some have seen private governance of this area, particularly by US technology firms, as limiting abuses of power by governments. Others have seen the practical inability of states to control infrastructures built and maintained by these firms as impinging on varying notions of ‘digital sovereignty’. Either way, all these above activities of regulation and governance have potential extraterritorial and transnational implications, creating a challenging landscape for a coherent and balanced global regime. Policy discussions however centre predominantly on a few countries in the Global North. This is problematic, as attempts to rebalance legitimate decision-making power around the use and management of such infrastructures can hardly be said to do so if that rebalancing is solely within rich countries. If you have any queries regarding the vacancy, please contact Dr Michael Veale: m.veale(a)ucl.ac.uk Full details in the PDF document linked to above. Deadline 18 June 2021. Start in September 2021. -- Dr Michael Veale Lecturer in Digital Rights and Regulation Faculty of Laws, University College London

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Webinar - Open Data & Sharing - 2 June
by Matthew Moore 18 May '21

18 May '21

More Info & RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Information-Innovation-UTS/events/278253822/ Public sector organisations are increasingly encouraged to share data with other state institution or private businesses and to make datasets available to the public. The drive to data sharing is supposed to improve service delivery and help boost an innovative digital economy. But what does this mean in practice for public servants and citizens? Three researchers will discuss their research into this topic: - What does "open" actually mean across different government agencies? - How is open data being shared across platforms like Wikidata? - How does data sharing work between different instititions in fields like health? Heather Ford as an Associate Professor at the School of Communication at UTS where she is Head of Discipline for Digital and Social Media. She has a background as an activist for internet rights and free and open source software and content movement. The co-founder of Creative Commons South Africa and former Executive Director of iCommons, she has also worked as a Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, a Google Policy Fellow for the Electronic Frontier Initiative, a Fellow for the Software Sustainability Institute in the UK and a University Academic Fellow in Digital Methods at Leeds University. Her current research is focused on the implications of datafication and automation for the representation of knowledge in global contexts. Suneel Jethani is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney. His research centres on embodied technology, datafication and issues of technology governance and design. Suneel has published in International Communication Gazette, Communication, Politics and Culture, M/C Journal and in Embodied Computing (2020) MIT Press. Suneel has forthcoming books on self-tracking technology (Emerald, 2021) and open data (Palgrave, 2021). Tsvetelina Hristova is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. Her main research interests focus on labour, migration, digital infrastructures and the ways in which digitalisation transforms the political as a field of power and resistance. UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Webinar on misinformation on social media in the Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea
by Amanda H A Watson 18 May '21

18 May '21

Hi. A webinar on misinformation on social media in the Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea will be held tomorrow (Wednesday 19th May). The start time will be 1pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). For more information and to register, see this link: https://lowyinstitute-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/4016212360608/WN_fty4ofx… Amanda ------------------------------- Amanda H A Watson, PhD Research Fellow Department of Pacific Affairs Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Room E3.28 Baldessin Building The Australian National University ACTON ACT 2600 AUSTRALIA CRICOS Provider: 00120C ABN: 52 234 063 906 Email: amanda.watson(a)anu.edu.au Twitter: @ahawatson Phone: +61 2 6125 2677

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Webinar in Spanish: Adding context to fact-checking, Wikipedia as a new vector for reliable online information?
by Ahmed Medien 18 May '21

18 May '21

**Sorry for cross-posting** Would love to have you join us, ask questions, share your expertise about Spanish language disinformation on the internet, platforms, open platforms. This webinar follows a series of other workshops and webinars we had in the past as part of the Wikicredibility Initiative, a volunteer initiative between Wikimedians and Hacks Hackers to support research and credibility tools on Wikipedia and wikidata. n this event, speakers will dissect the challenges in the news and online information ecosystem in the region. We will discuss the following themes: - Knowledge and information reliability on Wikipedia for reporting on current news - The linkage between media ecosystems and open-knowledge platforms - Fact-checking for underrepresented communities and underrepresented indigenous languages - Distribution of news and information in the region - Adding context to fighting misinformation and disinformation networks at scale Invited speakers - José Flores - Communications Director @ Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales - Luis Álvarez Azcárraga - Wikimedia Mexico, PhD in Social Cultural Studies - Noé Domínguez Porras - Platform data engineer - Alliwa Pazmiño - Fact-checker @ Ecuador Chequea - Tweet about the event: https://twitter.com/credcoalition/status/1394361007544307715 - The form registration link is here: https://forms.gle/gtFxUx3hc4z2StoT8 - Full event description (in English + Spanish): https://bit.ly/33RyGeU - Previous Wikicred events here: https://bit.ly/2QoJZb6 Best regards, Ahmed + WikiCred team wikicred.org Partners <https://www.wikicred.org/#who-we-are> / Projects <http://wikicred.org/#projects> / Funders <http://wikicred.org/#funders>

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