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In reality, many people’s access and level of participation is limited not only by their technical abilities, but also restricted by external forces like government surveillance, blocked access to certain areas of the Internet, lack of privacy, and fundamental socio-cultural beliefs that bleed into online life. \r\n\r\nThe Digital Citizenship space brings together Internet experts, legal practitioners, activists, and makers from all over the world to raise awareness about the limitations to online participation, the importance of a safe and private Internet, and to create tools to breakthrough the obstacles. Tech policy leaders and activists will join in sharing their knowledge and up-level participants’ skills so that they can effectively contribute to campaigns, while those with experience being marginalized online will share their stories and work with participants to build strategies and tools to keep the Web safe for everyone. In turn, participants can take the online resources, educational content, and knowhow gleaned from MozFest back to their respective homes and teach others while growing the global movement to advance and protect the open Web. \r\n\r\nWe imagine 5 main personas that would benefit greatly from the Digital Citizenship space:\r\n\r\n1. Mozilla (Advocacy) Community Member: as we ramp up our global efforts in convening community members around salient Internet policy issues, we want to work closely with like-minded members of the Mozilla Community. We see these participants having the following learning objectives:\r\n* How to contribute more/better.\r\n* Mozilla’s position about salient Internet policy issues.\r\n* How to engage with others and teach them about these issues at home.\r\n\r\n2. Legal experts / Policy wonks: Part of our vision for the Advocacy community is pairing experts with community leaders and technologists as part of an Advocacy Task Force. These practitioners come with important knowledge and a sophisticated understanding of how the political systems function, and as such we want to give them the opportunity to reach another audience. We see these participants as wanting to learn to communicate more clearly and creatively, and see them learning these skills by interacting with our other participant personas.\r\n\r\n3. Social Activist/Campaigner: A critical part of raising awareness and building community action is campaigning. We see the social activist as having the know-how for bringing people together and inspiring them to take action. We think the social activist persona that comes to MozFest is looking for more insight into today’s major Internet policy agenda, and how to be safer online in this world of heavy-handed government intervention.\r\n\r\n4. Engineer/developer: In our recent interactions with Mozilla teams it’s become apparent that there are a lot of engineers and developers with the skills to build exciting tools to invite people to contribute and participate that are very passionate about protecting the open Web. These technologists are vital to communicating the technical intricacies of the infrastructure of the web, and we imagine them wanting to apply their skills to a bigger cause. We also think this persona would want to learn to communicate better through their technology and reach a wider audience.\r\n\r\n5. Creatives/Artists: Our team’s experience at MozFest has included inspiring interactions with designers and artists of all types. We imagine a number of creatives will participate in this year’s MozFest, and will be looking for inspiration. We hope they will come participate in our space by applying their skills to a larger, political cause, and perhaps would want to learn how to use technology in their art.\r\n\r\n\r\nAs a whole, participants in the Digital Citizenship/Internet Rights space will have more empathy about different types of access and experiences online. They will be able to talk to others about these different experiences, and make more informed decisions when it comes to Internet policy in their respective regions. Participants will also have a more sophisticated understanding of today’s important issues, and how they can get involved. In some cases, participants will have concrete tools they can employ (and teach others to do the same) to have a safer online experience.  \r\n\r\nThe participation aspect of the online experience is not uniform for everyone. These pathways directly engage with online privacy and security issues, up-level the leadership skills of the Open Web Fellows and other participants, and raise awareness about the lack of digital inclusion that is not just about infrastructure or geographic location. Supported by the MoCo/MoFo cross-functional Policy + Advocacy team, as well as the fundraising team, these pathways look to build opportunities for contribution and participation to further the Mozilla mission. 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They'll become familiar with Do Not Track history and EFF's new DNT policy as well as modern ad blocking tools. Attendees will have a sense of the online tracking ecosystem, and will have an opportunity to voice their concerns and suggestions for how to reform it. The session will also cover the technical details of how browsers are able to be tracked, what prevention tools do to circumvent this, and what browsers can do by default to aid users and tools. The hope is that attendees leave with a better understanding of what is going on and feel empowered to use the tools available to help reform the state of web tracking. \n\n### Agenda\nThe session will begin with a brief overview of exiting tools, policies, and the projects I've worked on, along with the technical details of how web tracking works. Then attendees will discuss their experiences with web tracking and technical countermeasures. The discussion will focus on how we can use these tools influence better behavior from ad tech companies as well as what is needed to better aid users who want to opt-out. It will be a general discussion, moderated (if need be) by me to allow participants to share equally.\n\n### Participants\nWith a small group it will be just a simple round table discussion. For a larger group it will be a moderated discussion where I will manage a stack. If it gets larger than that we will break up into small groups, do round table or moderated discussions, then all reconvene and present on what our groups discussed.\n\nOne of the best sessions I went to last year was on a very similar topic (the birth of the W3C DNT header and it's current state in adoption) and run as a roundtable. It was by far the session I learned the most from, and I'm hoping to repeat it's success with new DNT progress. Additionally I will try to rope in other knowledgeable attendees to help lead/foster discussion.\n\n### Outcome\nAttendees will leave the session with a collective better understanding of how web tracking operates and what we can do to influence better behavior. Additionally attendees should have knowledge of the current status of efforts to reform advertisers, some of which are either very new or not common knowledge. Attendees should be able to take what they learn and apply it to their own project, their own advocacy, or even just their day to day lives (in their personal web browsing). If attendees work on tools or browsers they will leave with a better sense of what is needed to stymie trackers. Attendees should also be able to share what they learn with authority, and hopefully spread excitement about the current anti-tracking movement.\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mozilla/mozfest-program/issues/comments/140558558","html_url":"https://github.com/mozilla/mozfest-program/issues/218#issuecomment-140558558","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mozilla/mozfest-program/issues/218","id":140558558,"user":{"login":"Melechuga","id":5815317,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5815317?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Melechuga","html_url":"https://github.com/Melechuga","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Melechuga/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Melechuga/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Melechuga/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Melechuga/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Melechuga/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Melechuga/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Melechuga/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Melechuga/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Melechuga/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-09-15T21:59:03Z","updated_at":"2015-09-15T21:59:03Z","body":"cc @mixedpuppy @MozStacy @shaghdoosti "}}