TRUE LIES - SHIFT. SHAPE. MOBILIZE.
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TRUE LIES - SHIFT. SHAPE. MOBILIZE. - Shift. Shape. Mobilize.
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True lies - Shift. Shape. Mobilize. - Shift. Shape. Mobilize. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung Published by Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Berlin, September 2016 ISBN: booktype:true-lies © . Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike This book was created with Booktype. For more information, please visit: www.booktype.pro
True lies - Shift. Shape. Mobilize.
Shift. Shape. Mobililze. ........................................................................................................................... 1 Talk with Andrei Soldatov ...................................................................................................................... 3 On the ground: Fact checking & Manipulation ................................................................................ 8 Data security ........................................................................................................................................ 14 Data-driven journalism ........................................................................................................................ 16 Responsible data and secure data ................................................................................................... 19 #BLOODMONEY ................................................................................................................................... 23 #IsWealthyHappy ................................................................................................................................. 24 #Brobby ................................................................................................................................................. 25 #thejointproject .................................................................................................................................... 26 Words .................................................................................................................................................... 27 Bias in journalism .................................................................................................................................. 30 Verification tools .................................................................................................................................. 34 Disspeak glossary ................................................................................................................................. 35 Visual storytelling .................................................................................................................................. 38 Image manipulation and verification ............................................................................................... 41 Privoz: Goods for everyone ................................................................................................................ 42 The bride of the sea ............................................................................................................................. 43 Exploring another side of nightlife in Odessa ................................................................................... 44 To Be Odessan ..................................................................................................................................... 45 A night in Odessa ................................................................................................................................. 46 Odessa port .......................................................................................................................................... 47 Spotlights ............................................................................................................................................... 50 Filmstudio Odessa ................................................................................................................................ 51 Humans of Odessa .............................................................................................................................. 52 Street action Être-jeté-là ..................................................................................................................... 53 Tourism in Odessa ................................................................................................................................ 54 Advertisment ........................................................................................................................................ 55 Imprint ................................................................................................................................................... 56
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Shift Shape Mobilize - True Lies
Shift. Shape. Mobilize. is a network for bloggers and online activists in eastern Europe. In 2015 we kicked off with a workshop in Berlin focusing on getting a better understanding of the socio-political relevance of blogs in countries in transition. Overall, we aim to raise awareness, empower and support the role of bloggers in Europe as an alternative source of information in society.
In 2016 we followed up with a workshop with 45 bloggers, activists and journalists in Odessa, Ukraine. We aimed to shed light on the theme of TRUE LIES. Through data journalism, visual storytelling and words we dived into the topics of truth and reliability in reporting in polarising situations. Where does truth end and populism or propaganda begin? What does it mean to expose false information and what role does credibility play in the blogging sphere?
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The 45 participants came from Austria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.
IMPACT HUB The workshop took place in Impact hub Odessa, which is a network of hubs from all over the world. Founded in 2013, it was the first hub in the ex-Soviet territory. There are two types of activities: coworking, sharing projects and ideas - and our own programmes aimed at improving the situation. The impact hub supports more than 50 NGOs, helping them to improve their activities, and hosting an incubator for ideas.
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Talk with Andrei Soldatov
Andrei Soldatov is an investigative journalist from Russia specialized in the Russian secret service system who has been working in this field for 16 years. He also covers other topics, like the Winter Olympics in Sochi 2014. As in 2009 it became impossible for him to be a staff writer for Russian media, he started finding Western publications to publish his works. In 2009 he founded the watchdog organization agentura.ru and a consortium working on topics surrounding the Russian surveillance system. He recently published the book "The Red Web - the struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries". Currently he is investigating how the Russian government and secret services are controlling online activities of Russian citizens.
Could you share with us a true lie you came across recently? I think currently the biggest scandal is the story about the DNC hack - probably carried out by Russian hackers. What I find to be most amazing about this story is how the FSB - the Russian security service - decided to respond to it. The FSB published a statement on its website saying that the Russian state and government organizations were hacked during the last 2-3 weeks. The idea was
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to misdirect a discussion about the DNC hack by stating that the FSB just prevented attacks on the Russian government. It was a very misleading effort. The FSB failed to provide any details on this attempt. Tech experts that provided details about the DNC hack claimed that it was very professional and involved a lot of resources. This led us to think that some government was behind it. Two days later a hacker called Guccifier 2.0 launched a website, saying he was behind the attack and that no professionals were involved. The hacker said he was Romanian. He was contacted by my friend, who is also Romanian, which the hacker didn't know. My friend switched to Romanian and immediately he understood that the guy has no knowledge of the language, he was using Google translate. It is unlikely that he was behind the attacks.
Russian surveillance and control mechanisms Russia has quite a peculiar and unique way of controlling internet. On the one hand we have very strong legislation regarding blogs, and a powerful system of online following. Despite that we are identified by classical means, not by online methods. Even though millions of sites are banned in Russia, at the same time it is still possible to find info on sensitive topics on the Russian internet. The picture is much more complicated, and I think we should ask ourselves why... The story starts in 1949 in a special prison for engineers near Moscow, where a system to recognize voices in telephone communications was put to work. The team was solicited to identify a traitor who made three calls to the US and Canadian Embassy. In just 2 days Lev Kopelev managed to identify the traitor. Internet control technology was born decades later. You should bear in mind that the Russian system of electronic surveillance was not that powerful, and in the 1990s the KGB was only able to intercept 300 calls. This is really nothing in comparison to the population of Moscow, but everybody was scared, hence the tactics were to spread fear and to make people cautious in their conversations. The main tool was the instigation of (self-)censorship. The idea of surveillance is a product of the Soviet Union; which is a general problem for all postSoviet countries. Russian surveillance procedures were found in Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine etc; everywhere you find National Security Services without connections to the former KGB, but they kept the style of working, the same missions and procedures. Surveillance is connected to the judicial system. If a country honors its legislation it borrows from the Russian way of surveillance. While technological development in the services is not that good, the strategy is to put certain people into jail to frighten parts of society. According to recent research, most people were jailed for online posting when they used VK.com (vkontakte). There are two main consequences: First of all, vkontakte's administration is ready to cooperate more often; secondly, they follow people that they have already followed offline by the moment. It is widely understood that blocking information is not the proper way in modern world, but what is effective is destroying the platform for debates. In terms of collecting data in Russia, Facebook is safer for users now.
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In Russia, there is the popular idea that Russia is in an information war. On the one hand, we have all these talks about information wars. On the other hand, Russian security services are slow in developing technologies. The explanation is that if you look at how things are organized, you'd be surprised. People who work there just don't know technologies, don't have solutions. Eventually, adventurous people take care of it and bring solutions (the troll case is an example). And that is how the process becomes unpredictable.
Tactics of surveillance Actually, all countries use surveillance, and in many places there are abuses of laws. Not all democratic countries build the same type of systems, and there are technical differences. For example, the US focus on mass surveillance, Russia focuses on targeted surveillance. I would say that Western Europe is positioned somewhere in between. As, basically, all countries follow their citizens, the issue is how much the legislation is abused. In that respect the US and Russian systems are different. In the US and Western Europe there are two cables between providers and law enforcement agencies, one for interception warrants and the other for sending back results. In Russia there is just one cable with direct access to the information, to the whole communications system. And nobody knows what they are intercepting.
Data passes many territories... With respect to legal procedures, the problem is that the US are dominant. As we use American services (Facebook, Twitter), most of the traffic passes through US servers. The same happens with Russia in post-Soviet states with vk.com which is used in Ukraine but passes through Russian servers. This means you are not in control of things.
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What would be your advice for journalists in terms of protecting electronic communications? In practice it is quite difficult to convince your sources to use encryption. The best thing is, first, to check where your server is based: East or West? For example, Viber servers are based in Russia. Thus, you need to keep track of servers. Second: do not let forms automatically authorize your accounts. In many cases the secret services know the way to approach mobile phones and companies do provide your name. Third: stick to basic things, take care of your passwords.
What do you think will be the future of electronic communications? In the short term all your electronic devices will be connected in some form to the internet and that makes it impossible to completely secure them. Now your TV can spy on you and we should accept some level of surveillance – there is only one solution: to hide yourself in the crowd. Tor network applies this principle of hiding in the crowd. At the same time everybody is able to do this. For example, communications between terrorists evolved according to this principle: at first, they disguised it as business talks, now they use online combat video games, where they have chats and can talk freely about weaponry and explosives. Anything connected to the internet can spy on you, hiding in the crowd is the principle to avoid it.
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What are your thoughts on Snowden? First of all, I would like to point out that I think what Snowden did was really important for all of us, because it opened up a worldwide debate about surveillance. However I have two main criticisms. I do not understand why a guy who stands for transparency, is not transparent at all about his activities in Moscow. He only agrees to meet very specific, supportive and carefully chosen journalists, and I find this really strange. I do not think the issue is about security, I personally offered to interview him through the office of his supporting staff, but neither me, nor other local journalists have been able to conduct an interview with him. Secondly, I do not understand why Snowden does not say anything about the Russian legislation of the internet environment and Russian surveillance.
Russia and the revolutionary properties of social media Most of the time Russian foreign policy is unplanned. I think Putin is very emotional, which makes him unpredictable and, therefore, dangerous. After the annexation of Crimea, which they consider to be a reaction to Western intrusion, Putin has changed the tactics and ways of surveillance. He started to mobilize people every single month, through the Olympic Games, the LGBT. The level of mobilization needs to stay high, and the next reason to mobilize could be anything. The development of social media has changed things and Russia is facing a new challenge. It all is about networks which is an interesting topic because it is impossible to control. We believe that we need leaders, but if we look at the protests in 2011/12, in Russia the protests were most powerful when the leaders were actually in jail; and the ordinary people became revolutionaries. At the same time government considers that there is special secret technology for mobilizing people through social networks and thinks that control on networks would protect them against protests. It was the staring point of filtration experiments.
Link list Andrei Soldatov publishes articles among others on the Russian platform Meduza and Huffington post. Curious where your data goes? Open Data City (ODC) build a visualisation showing examples of how internet packets wander around the internet cables while we use some of the most popular online services. Want to know more about your digital shadow? Have a look at the "My Shadow" by Tactical Technology Collective. Want to find out why Russia did not invent the internet? Read How not to network a nation
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On the ground: Fact checking & manipulation
Credibility is a quality strongly contested by players online today, and bloggers are right in the middle. It is an art in itself to express a subjective opinion using tools and methods of a fact based "search for truth". A panel discussion with some of the trainers and participants on fact checking & manipulation gave some food for thought regarding personal and professional experience in media.
Sergei Kozlovsky, Vadym Hudyma Sergei Kozlovsky Sergei Kozlovsky was born in Belarus and lives in Moscow. He has been studying journalism there since 2011 and writes for Global Voices on the Internet situation in Belarus and Russia. He is interested in trade, economy and censorship. Since 2015 he has also been writing for BBC Russia. Sergei participated in the first edition of Shift. Shape. Mobilize, Berlin 2015. Vadym Hudyma Vadym Hudyma is an open data activist and works as digital security consultant for CSOs and
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activist groups in Kiev, Ukraine. He was involved in several projects focusing on government and electoral and parliamentary transparency in Ukraine, including mass screening of tens of thousands of candidates in parliament and local elections for their involvement in corruption crimes or human rights violation activities. He also worked on the launch of an extensive database of firms and individuals mentioned as suspects in journalist anti-corruption investigations in Ukraine. One of his main activities was devising policy on disclosure procedures. As a security specialist, he is helping to raise and spread awareness in basic digital security problems as well as privacy issues in digital age.
Letizia Gambini - Moderation, Fabian Weiss Fabian Weiss Fabian Weiss is a visual storyteller based in Estonia and member of the German photo agency LAIF as well as the Getty Global Assignment program. He conducts workshops on storytelling and making magazines at HFBK University Hamburg as well as within the Publish Yourself! Network, which he founded together with a publisher and designer from Cologne. After studying photojournalism and documentary photography in London, Aarhus and Vienna, his current projects explore cultural changes in personal structures in Europe and Eastern countries. Searching for telling gestures, the cinematic images he creates are acutely observed portraits within a broader context.
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Jacopo Ottaviani, Natalia Antelava Jacopo Ottaviani Jacopo Ottaviani is experienced in data journalism, digital cartography, immersive storytelling and cross-border data projects. He builds narratives and visualizations around data and his innovative works have been published by, among others, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, DER SPIEGEL, El País and Internazionale. He is co-author of The Migrants' Files, a cross-border data project that uncovered exclusive information on the human and economic costs of immigration in Europe. The project was awarded the Data Journalism Awards 2014 and the European Media Prize 2015. In 2015 he made the web-documentary E-waste Republic which was awarded the DIG Awards 2015 and the Lorenzo Natali Media Prize 2015. In 2014 he worked on «The dark side of the Italian tomato». Natalia Antelava A co-founder of Coda, Natalia is an Emmy nominee and award winning journalist. Natalia is originally from Tbilisi, Georgia where she is currently based. She started her career freelancing in West Africa but has since been BBC’s resident correspondent in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East, Washington DC and most recently India. She has reported undercover from Burma, Yemen and Uzbekistan and her investigations into human rights abuses in Central Asia, Iraq and the United States have won her a number of awards. Natalia has most recently reported for the BBC from Eastern Ukraine and has also written for the Guardian, Forbes magazine, Washington Post and the New Yorker among others.
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Reporting as a foreign correspondent "As a foreign corespondent in Russia you are under the suspicion that you will say something bad about Russia. At the same time people have stories to share even though many still don't want to talk to you because you are a foreign correspondent. When working, you just deal with info - this is the info you have and you've got to work with it, you have to check the facts, the figures, everything. You feel the pressure every day. Russian media don't have strict standards in some cases, while in the BBC you should have at least two sources, and this standard generates a lot of pressure. Sometimes people are angry because you checked their story and did not publish it just as they gave it to you." Sergei Kozlovsky "The furhter you are away from the reader, the more you need to dumb down the news and simplify the news. During the Arab Spring I was covering the uprising in Jemen, there was a lack of follow up. What happens between the spikes of attention is very important, but we mainly cover the events that are spectacluar, which makes it very difficult to explain what is going on. When you do not have the context you cannot understand it, and when you don't provide the context you are in a sense manipulating." Natalia Antelava
The open data movement and data journalism "Since the Maidan events, there has been an explosion of publishing open data. Ukraine has had many projects based on this, specifically on interest statements of politicians. This open data movement is problematic with respect to the electronic format, because .doc or .pdf are not really
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open data. And programmers have to scrape the data with special programs. With good training, you can have a good story based on open data with good visualization." Vadym Hudyma "We should fight sensationalism. There is a lot of evidence that people are fed up with bad news. Open data visualization is blooming, but this can also be manipulated. What is important is to link the data to reality, to the human element, to not only provide figures and images." Jacopo Ottaviani "There is a lack of data literacy in the general audience, people should check the data." Jacopo Ottaviani
Journalism, narratives, manipulation and sensationalism "Lots of Western journalists have become captivated by certain narratives because it is more convenient for them. Another form of manipulation is the “he said/ she said� form of journalism. Therefore, we find more and more simplification. For example, a bombing far away is not that interesting only in terms of victims. Concerning objectivity, journalism can and should be fair. Journalism is inherently subjective because it is generated by humans, but it can be balanced. Lack of time, skills and expertise brings us to the lack of context in journalism. With words you might have depth of reporting, with images you get a snapshot of reality. People need good stories." Natalia Antelava "The image has an inherited core value of objectivity, but still it can be manipulated. The words that accompany a picture are written journalism and can appear as a quote or description. Photographers should pay attention to avoid manipulation by those who give them tips. Also they need to be aware that the editor chooses the picture according to their own agenda and narrative or vision." Fabian Weiss "There is no specific positive journalism! There is just universal journalism, and we have to cover whatever is meaningful for the audience." Natalia Antelava
Bloggers v.s. Journalists "Any blogger can be better than any journalist if he has a good story." Sergey Kozlovsky "I disagree! People can report from everywhere with the new technologies, everybody can have a platform for spreading the news. But they still don't have proper training in journalism. It's another type of reporting." Vadym Hudyma "People also should doublecheck what they read, but sometimes it is complicated because of the language barrier." Fabian Weiss "There is a thing that everyone can do, which is to be a bit more responsible with the info they share." Natalia Antelava
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Data security
A lot of people think that it is not important to use encryption. They think that they have "nothing to hide". We increasingly live online, more and more of our digital data is online and stored on a handful of devices – computer, laptop, smartphone and in the cloud, which is like storing our data on a computer we don't own. We don't realize that all this information about us which we would never give away in real life is exposed to people who have access to these devices, legally or not.
When we say that we have nothing to hide, we don't think about the implications of this. We think we need to have big secret to have a need for privacy. We think "I am a good person", and therefore we don't think that we need to protect ourselves because nothing bad can happen to us. We don't think that the data that can be gathered about us every day can be used against us, now or in the future, whether we have done something "wrong" or someone simply wants to portray us as someone who has done something wrong and will use every detail of our life. Article 12 of the Declaration of Human Rights mentions our right to privacy. Thanks to revelations like those of Edward Snowden, we know that this right is not respected. It is our right to get back our privacy. There are different types of surveillance. When we talk about surveillance, most people imagine what we call "target surveillance", i.e. someone listening to our phone conversations, which is really
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expensive and therefore can only be used against someone who is actually being suspected of having done something bad. What happens in reality is different: we live in an era of mass surveillance. Mass surveillance consists of gathering all the data that can be gathered at pretty low cost and storing them for long periods of time. If needed, agencies like the NSA can then search the data that they have been gathering on everyone for years and look for people or keywords Another form of surveillance is commercial surveillance, or the tracking of users that use services. Don't forget: if a service is free, you are not customer but a product, and your data will most likely be sold to third parties or used for commercial purposes. In addition, services like Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Skype have been collaborating with agencies like the NSA for years. So, what can people do? You can raise the cost of using your data by using strong encryption. 100% security is impossible, but you can make it much harder for third parties – states, corporations or any person that may go after you for personal or professional reasons – to gather your data. This can help any citizen who cares about their data, and it is essential for people who work on "sensitive" material, like journalists for example. To understand which steps you should take to protect your data, first establish your threat model. Who may be interested in your data? What use are you making of communication technology? What do you need to be able to do? Which country are you in? Etc. Then you can build an operations security model for yourself: define the steps that you will take to protect your data. Most likely you will have to use some of the following tools: Tor for anonymous browsing Jabber and OTR encryption for secure chats GPG for email encryption Tails if you need a secure operating system You can find information on how to use these tools and more here. If you need more explanation and more tools, have a look at the book Information Security for Journalists by Silkie Carlo and Arjen Kampuis.
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What is data-driven journalism?
"Data can be the source of data journalism, or it can be the tool with which the story is told — or it can be both. Like any source, it should be treated with scepticism; and like any tool, we should be conscious of how it can shape and restrict the stories that are created with it." Paul Bradshaw, Birmingham City University, the Data Journalism Handbook
In a world where information is more and more available data has become an essential source of stories for journalists. Data sets can be interpreted in many ways and can tell very different stories. In this track we explore how to find data to support stories and how to find story ideas through data analysis. We learn how to make a simple analysis of data sets and finally produce stories with engaging data visualization tools.
Working with data - the main things to keep in mind Data Journalism Guidelines #1 Truth How to lie with statistics and maps. Every world map you're looking at is wrong. 16
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Data is used to approximate the truth (supposing it exists), but a lot depends on how it’s used and visualized. We all know the world map, which we see in different contexts. But usually the proportions of Africa and South America are not presented to the audience correctly. These countries are actually bigger. The maps we are used to are already interpretations. There are many maps that prove you don’t really know earth. To compare different countries you can visit thetruesize.com.
#2 Completeness You have some prejudices and you show the trends according to your prejudices, you don’t show the full picture. Avoid cherry-picking, always try to show the whole picture. Journalists have to be honest. Think about correlation v.s. causation. Correlation doesn’t imply causation: you can find plenty of funny examples on this topic.
#3 Transparency When creating data stories you should be transparent. Make sure to have a clear methodology, link the sources, explain details about the sources. Be transparent when working with or analyzing data. Always make a documentation and keep track of methodological notes. Link sources to websites and show how you collect data. But - be aware of privacy.
#4 Accuracy Be accurate, follow general rules (i.e. always use 2D pie-charts, instead of fancy 3D visualizations that no one can quickly grasp). The video "The unbearable lightness of y axis" shows how easy it is to manipulate information.
#5 Lucidity It’s really easy to miss something, the enemy of the journalist is speed. Fact checking and verification are important. It is always good to work in a team to combine knowledge. Like scientists you should work in teams, collaborate with people who have different expertise. If you work with social media data, remember that fact checking is very important. For further information the verification handbook is a good read.
#6 Humanity Don’t forget that behind data there are human stories. Sometimes telling the story in words is the best way. Always connect the data to reality. Use traditional techniques. “Numbers are a means of storytelling and not the story itself”.
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#7 Examples We set up a pad to collect best practice data-driven projects from different countries, like Generation E where a team of data journalists collected 2,000 immigrant stories and did “a datadriven investigation on southern European youth migration”.
Resources & Tools You'll find a lot of data on the sites of statistical offices. Datasets and databases can be found there. Excel is the best format if you have that option (don’t choose pdf). If you have only pdf you can convert it to excel (use a tool called tabula.technology, some 80% of pdf files are convertible). If pdf is not convertible and you badly need this data, work as a team, invite volunteers - "PDF is our enemy". Use Infogr.am, Tablo, Datawrapper to create your own infographics and charts. Infogram Datawrapper Tableau Storymap: Silk Tabula OpenRefine LODRefine Data Journalism Tools
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Responsible data and secure data
"The duty to ensure people’s rights to consent, privacy, security and ownership around the information processes of collection, analysis, storage, presentation and reuse of data, while respecting the values of transparency and openness." - Responsible Data Forum, working definition, September 2014
Misconceptions & common myths Try to collect data that you are really interested in, but collect as little as possible. Try to protect your sources as much as possible. Basically: Any data could be sensitive. It’s not your call. It is up to the person you are writing about to decide what is sensitive data. Ask communities and people to make sure you identify sensitive points. Project data flow
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1. Designing a project 2. Managing data 3. Closing a project This means getting data, understanding data and sharing data. Think about how you plan to close your project. How long would your data be out there, who will access the data and how? Designing responsible projects Do not design alone Plan ahead Keep a timeline in mind Factor in data Why data? Get permission, check licenses Plan for failure, what could go wrong? (backups, hacks, where is data stored) Budget for what you need Check yourself Document the process (each step) Don’t panic, plan! Assessing risks and threats What risks can be eliminated entirely and how? What risks should be addressed first? How can risks be reduced/ better managed? Confidentiality planning! Set up a table including these columns and try to elaborate when planning your project: assets, risks, adversaries, threats, adversary capacity, likelihood, mitigation strategy. Suggested resource: Guide to holistic security from Tactical Tech. Budgeting Support from external providers Hosting and storage options Required team skills Project termination A home for healthy data Data integrity: validity, authenticity, security Data storage: risks and harms Physical location Digital location Ultimate ownership of storage Back-ups Access Data life cycle Saving data Consent 20
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Notice or disclosure Capacity or understandin Voluntary nature (is there an opt-out option when asking others for contributions There is no „perfect“ anonymization Verifying & cleaning data Clear names, describe and acknowledge data you use Never work with original data files Make versions, document steps This way you make sure you work in a transparent way Managing bias & assumptions Can I trust what my data set is telling me? All data contain bias‌ but how much? Consider What data should be de-identified? What information might another party have that could re-identify my data? Once data is published, there is no turning back! What happens to the data? What data do I have and where do I have it? Data disposal - archiving data
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Examples In this project it was easy to identify real people via social media. The project Schoolscope simply compares schools in different regions, it fails to link data to a call for action. To compare, a project that deals with this issue in a better way is propublica. Here the task is not only to compare schools (and blame parents who sent their children to badly equipped schools), but to ask a bigger questions: Is your state providing equal access to education? It is important to ask policy questions and to get people involved in solving problems. Propose solutions, not just problems! More info on responsible data can be found here.
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#BLOODMONEY
By: Armand, Sergey, Elena, Andreas
How has military expenditure developed in the past 5 years in terms of GDP percentage worldwide?
True lies “Defense spending has grown too much in the past 5 years” “The world is a dangerous place” “There are more conflicts now than ever before if you look at the media coverage” Check out the complete interactive info graphic here.
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#IsWealthyHappy
By: Martin, Aynur, Umut
Is wealth happiness?
True lies Citizens of wealthy countries are wealthy (GDP, average income) Democratic countries are fairer when it comes to wealth (correlation of democratic index and GDP/average income) Democratic countries are wealthier Wealthier countries are happier Democratic countries are fairer with respect to wealth distribution (gini coefficient) Find the interactive info graphics here. Explore the story through a storymap.
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#Brobby
By: Alice
Which companies from the UK have (economic) interests that they are lobbying the EU on?
True lies Debunking some points of the Brexit propaganda on the UK interests in the EU How much money did these UK companies invest and for what topics/legislation? Check out the interactive info-graphic here.
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#thejointproject
By: Sasha, Andrei, Roman
Questions What are the trends in cannabis prices in the EU? Is there a correlation between legalization and the capacity of students to buy cannabis? Is there a big price gap between countries that legalized cannabis and those that did not? Check out the interactive info graphic here.
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Words track
"Since the digital world started booming there seems to be a parallel reality, people are not that good with the truth and this has a huge impact on journalism and our lives." - Natalia Antelava When did Donald Trump tell the truth about his relationship with Vladimir Putin? One can find very different versions and Trump seems to have no problem with contradicting himself and turn his words around when confronted with his previous statements. This track calls on participants to analyze how we use words and how our language affects our lives. At the same time we see that lies in today's media grow on very legitimate grounds - the best example being the Brexit campaign where real concerns were used for massive disinformation. This can happen because we don't treat facts with the respect they deserve. During the Crimean crisis watching Russian TV would make you think there were two separate worlds. For any outsider it would have been difficult to understand what the Russian media were doing. At the same time the Western media failed to explain the role of Russian TV in the conflict. Russia Today would present a young guy that earned his living by selling used cars as a "political expert". One consequence of the massive disinformation campaign in the Russian media was that part of the narrative on Ukraine in Western media became focused on how to cover the lies and how to deal with them. Western audiences never realized the level to which this crisis was manufactured. At the same time Russian journalists themselves were pretty disgusted about what they were doing. There was a false story about a 10-year-old girl killed in Donetsk and the Russian journalists covering it were not happy about being involved in manufacturing news. The spokesman of the Defence Ministry of DNR was drinking with Russian journalists and told them about the girl killed by Ukrainian shelling; two of them picked up the story which afterwards spread like wildfire because it fitted the Russian narrative. Another huge problem is that the world is polarized to the level that you cannot reach the other side. People are already convinced and just follow what confirms their convictions.
Biases and words
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It is hard to be journalist and not to take sides. One takes sides just by being alive. But the important thing for a professional journalist is the lack of an agenda. The only agenda is informing people. It doesn't matter how noble the agenda might be, if you don't inform people you are failing at your job. Those lines are increasingly blurred because of the so-called embedding, when journalists are with some organization and they sort of promote their narrative instead of investigating what really happens. The most effective way to generate an insightful explanation in the media is to use words. But what gives words meaning? Basically it is down to people agreeing on the same meaning of a word. For example, the connotation of the word 'democracy' is mainly positive – even though in Russia it now has a negative connotation. There is a recent development in the vocabulary that follows the lines of George Orwell's Newspeak: limiting language limits thought and imagination. Nowadays the use of abbreviations eliminates the emotional connotation of content: 1) Ideas are reduced to their literal meaning 2) No contextual information is provided 3) Language assumes a neutral tone But the real danger comes from the changing the meaning of words, which leads to creation of Disspeak: the use of the same words with different meaning depending on the media that are using them. Reading between the lines is a basic skill of critical media consumption. In order to debunk the real
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motives of an (often anonymous or fake) author knowledge about the connotation of words is needed. Demagogues take advantage of subtle emotional effects on their readers to manipulate. In this track we discuss the power of language and question our own habits in dealing with words.
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Go, meet people on the streets!
"The most difficult thing in journalism is to avoid bias, the already made conviction, to present things in an objective manner, even if it is hard it is necessary." - Natalia Antelava
Practical challange - Mikhail Saakashvili The practical challenge was to read three articles about the governor of the Odessa region, Mikhail Saakashvili, find three people from Odessa to talk about their governor and then write a short essay. The exercise was intended to show how bias works as there were two sets of articles one set in favor of Saakashvili, the other against him. All participants were strongly influenced by the articles they read which was visible in their essays. Below you'll find several extracts from participants' essays: Bojan Stojkovski: "Saakashvili’s new political function as Governor of the Odessa region in Ukraine gives him an opportunity to right what he did wrong and try and consolidate the post-Maidan yearning for democracy in Ukrainian society. Expectations of Saakashvili amongst the Ukrainian people vary - young Ukrainians think that he might bring about change and would definitely be a
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breath of fresh air in Ukrainian politics. Older generations, however, are far more skeptical on this matter, remembering that Saakashvili’s political tenure in Georgia didn’t have the expected results and that if `he wasn’t good enough for Georgia, then why would he actually be good enough for Ukraine?" "There’s this good old Ukrainian habit to judge by physical appearance. “He doesn’t look very healthy. I’d like to see a less fat and sweating leader,” a woman in her early 50s told us. “I watch TV and I like the way he speaks, he creates an impression of someone who could really do something”, a young marine shared. All in all, Odessans seem to co-exist with politicians on the same territory, but kind of in a different dimension. Indifference, ignorance, a hands-down mood. The “Saakashvili’s there, I am here and we don’t interfere” tendency is prevailing. Ukrainians are waiting for their instant politico-economical miracle, shifting the burden of responsibility to some magical fresh foreign expert. Hope tends to vanish fast and what used to be people’s love turns into hate in a matter of days. Saakashvili, Pope Francis, Elon Musk or aliens themselves – who would have the capacity to reform this county?" Anna Chashchyna: "Ukraine’s largest port city, whose population are majority Russian speaking, walks a tightrope between annexed Crimea on the east and the de facto independent territory of Transnistria – both host to several thousand Russian troops. There may be some who cast a wary eye on an appointment of a politician under whose premiership Georgia was dragged into ruinous skirmish with Russia over the disputed area of South Ossetia. Others may be encouraged by his reputation as a reformer. In 2003, Transparency International listed Georgia 124th out of 133 in its most corrupt countries ranking. Ten years on, the country was 51st. But Saakashvili’s most memorable incident has been not a notable reform, but his bitter clash with interior minister Arsen Avakov which culminated in the latter hurling a glass of water his way and accusing him of being ‘a travelling showman and a blabbermouth’. The video subsequently went viral and did nothing to sway Ukraine’s image as a high-octane political soap opera. For Vladimir, the answer is simple: “Anyone in power here cannot do anything about corruption. It’s a feeding trough and maybe he removed some pigs.” “Only Putin can help.” Andrew Connelly: "If you ask people in Odessa, you won't get a unanimous opinion on their present governor. While one side likes him because he fought the oligarchs - by taking Odessa's best beaches from them, which they had tried to keep for themselves, in order to let the public enjoy access to the Black Sea again - others don't see any progress during his period of office. Especially the older people complain about their pensions which are too low to live on. Furthermore, many people are skeptical that a foreigner is doing a job which should be done by a guy from Odessa. Anyway, Saakashvili's popularity is quite high, so it might be surprising that he announced his return to Georgia should his party, United National Movement, win this autumn's parliamentary elections. You may wonder whether this is possible after renouncing Georgian citizenship and getting a Ukrainian passport. But people in Georgia will inform you that anything is possible in Georgia if you have enough money. Irrespective of whether they are supportive or disapproving, people in the streets of Odessa don't believe he will go back. “They chased him out of the country, why should he go back?”, one woman asked." Felix Weiss: Our world is so polarized! That's why I'm trying to read and watch media of opposite 31
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side. We all live in our own bubbles, and social media grow it greatly! We can see the results in such events as Brexit, right wing, Trump etc. One of the way to get out is to reach out to people who think differently to us. It is important to ask yourself how much of your emotion is based on fact and how much just on emotion.
Participants were offered to read one more article about Saakashvili and were asked to find bias in it. In the middle of the discussion participants were told that the article had been written by Natalia Antelava for The Guardian. Journalism is like an iceberg. It is manipulative, but any data needs verification. "I'm Georgian, and I'm extremely biased with regards to Saakashvili. Normally I'm trying not to write about Georgia as I feel passionate about Georgia. And when writing about Saakashvili I had to fight against my bias. I'm very happy to talk about the choices. I am very pro-Saakashvili. I feel very grateful as a Georgian for what Saakashvili did for our country. You need to try to put people into the shoes of other people to understand them deeply."- Natalia Antelava When I was working on the piece, I was watching Russian TV a lot. A major Russian TV station showed Saakashvili chewing his tie every single day! When he is nervous about something he chews. One of the biggest dilemmas was whether to include the chewing episode or not. And I decided not to. I decided to defend him in the discussion. We are biased by definition, no matter what. For example, bias gave me access and opportunity, I could attend any closed meetings and be present during phone calls. It also depends on where information is published, what goes on a personal website cannot go to a
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daily newspaper. Think about the source of the article you are reading.
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Verification tools
Debunking a myth/false fact 1. Explain why the misinformer promoted the myth 2. Use explicit warning before mentioning the myth 3. Use graphics which are more effective than text in reducing misconceptions. Fundamentals of verification Develop human sources Contact people and talk to them Be skeptical Consult multiple, credible sources Search and research methods and new tools Work together with other people Using content from someone else Identify and verify the original source and the content Challenge the source Obtain permission from the author/ originator to use the content Gather information about the author/ originator You can use: Pipl.com, Twitter/ Facebook account, Facebook Graph Search, Storyful MultiSearch, LinkedIn Examine the digital footprint of the source, history and connections of perspective. Location – reference points to compare with satellite imagery and geolocated photographs, signs on buildings/streets, car registration plates, clothing etc. Recommended reading VerificationHandbook DebunkingInformation Handbook CraigSilverman – Lies, Damn Lies and Viral Content
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Disspeak glossary
Words can have many meanings, and can be used in different ways: “Little green men” was an expression that was used to cover the fact that Russian troops had invaded Ukraine. This is reminiscent of George Orwell's book 1984 where newspeak twisted the meaning of words. Our group gathered words that have double meanings, so-called disspeak. Austerity From the economic institutions point of view, austerity refers to economic policies implemented and aimed at reducing government budget deficits, spending wisely, making budgets cuts, cutting jobs in the administration, lowering wages and pensions etc, generally seen as a positive thing for the rebuilding of one's damaged economy and economic figures and statistics. From the peoples' point of view (Greece being the example) austerity means reorganization of their lives, changing their spending habits, giving up on their commodities, radical lifestyle changes, which basically redefines their realities, something which is really seen in a negative context. Brexit Brexit is an abbreviation for “British exit” and literally means the UK's exit from the EU. It refers to the referendum on June 23, 2016 where British citizens voted to exit the European Union (18 million vs 17 million). The word itself became a brand for the political "leave" campaign. At the same time, it is synonymous with “murky future” for those who voted to “stay”. So, Brexit is newspeak and polarizing disspeak at once. Gayropa Gayropa is a blend of “gay” and “Europe”, which appeared in 2011/2012 initially in Russian blogs and then in the general media. It crudely refers to Europe's tolerance of gays, or implies that Europe is all gays. The word is widely used for discrediting values of multiculturalism and protection of minorities. The word is one of the codewords for recognizing polarized opinions. Hipster Wikipedia describes hipster as “affluent or middle class youth who reside primarily in gentrifying neighborhoods” and “associated with indie and alternative music, a varied non-mainstream fashion sensibility, vintage and thrift store-bought clothing, generally progressive political views, organic and artisanal foods, and alternative lifestyles”. The term appeared in the 1990s and became widespread in the late 2000s. It also refers to someone who is an expert in jazz music. They would be called young, cool and always in the know. But actually no-one would claim to be a hipster. The word is often used as a pejorative term for pretentious, over-trendy and even mollycoddled. Gradually the image has become grotesque, so that true hipsters prefer not to be 35
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associated with it. Liberalism This term defines a political philosophy and is founded on ideas of liberty and equality. All kinds of freedoms and civil rights are among its core values. But for conservatism supporters the term signifies neo-colonialism and social inequality and is widely considered to be incompatible with Christian traditions. So, the interpretation of liberalism depends on the author's specific world view and the reader's attitude and context. NGO Organizations that are independent from state and any kind of governments are called nongovernmental organizations (NGO). Usually they rely on donations or are simply run by volunteers. The range of activities is really wide and can take different forms. The term itself first appeared in 1945 when the United Nations was created, and later became used more widely. Usually NGOs stand for long-time values and ideas, such as support of minorities or fighting climate change etc. But there are critics of the NGOs approach. Nowadays countries of former Soviet bloc observe the rise of a certain skepticism. NGOs are being designed and used as extensions of the normal foreignpolicy instruments of certain Western countries and groups of countries. The term has become a synonym for traitors as NGOs might work in the interests of others countries. Some are even given the status of “foreign agents”. “Grant-eaters” is one of many disrespectful epithets for them. Tolerast Tolerast is a mix of “tolerant” and “pederast”. Urbandictionary refers to it as a “hyper tolerant person who will sacrifice all of his beliefs just to avoid being thought of as `intolerant`”. The word is often used to demonstrate neglect of Western values of multiculturalism and minorities protection. Lithuania was among the first countries that adopted the word in the mainstream media in the early 2010s. Then it spread to other countries with strong discussions between advocates of “Western values” and the so-called “national path”. Now the word is strongly labeled and gives away anti-multiculturalism supporters. Troll Originally a troll is an evil being without a human face in Scandinavian mythology. Early nonInternet slang use of trolling can be found in the military: the term trolling for MiGs was documented in use by US Navy pilots in Vietnam in 1972. It referred to the use of "decoys, with the mission of drawing”. In the early 1990s usenet used the word in the phrase "trolling for newbies” which is the practice of exposing newcomers to the inside jokes of web discussion veterans. The (neo-)trolls of the 2010s describe everything considered to be online harassment. There are different types of modern trolls such as political insiders, spammers, contrarians and memers. 5th column The term itself comes from Madrid and was first used by one of Franco's generals during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. It refers to establishments within a society that collaborate with an outside enemy in order to bring down the government. These groups of people are considered to act 36
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traitorously and have an interest or sympathy towards the enemy of the country. At the same time in several countries this group of people coincide with progressive forces fighting for social changes including a more organized society, demands for accountability and political awareness. For their enlightening activities they gain the status of a 5th column that rocks the boat.
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Visual storytelling
By: Fabian Weiss Compared to text, images are more easily considered evident proof of happenings in the world, and immediately determine how we perceive an event. This is why counterfeiting images has always been attractive. Manipulation nowadays extends through the whole production process, making it practically invisible and hard to debunk even by media experts. Here we discuss how visuals are made, distributed, and selected. Going out to the streets, we also experiment with various ways of visual storytelling ourselves.
What makes a good visual story? Authenticity Sensory Cultural relevance Archetype
Where to start? Read a lot Be inspired Research The five Ws and Hs (Who, What, Where, Why, When and How) Think like a movie director Technologies are changing and visual stories can be constructed very differently today. Visual storytellers use very different media, like computer generated material... or mobile phone images... to reach their audiences and tell their stories appropriately. It is all about the story, it is all about the content. Or like designers and architects say: form follows function.
Assignment: To make creativity To get into the creative mood we get an assignment, to take a photo or make a visual story based on a statement in 10 minutes.
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Find the exact spot where the familiar becomes alien
Brainstorming visual storytelling projects With open minds we got together to talk about the different visual storytelling projects we wanted to explore.
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Image manipulation and verification
"It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see. The language of the camera is the language of our dreams" - James Baldwin Where does image manipulation starts? Where does it end? What is image manipulation? How can images be manipulated?
Forms of image manipulation "Computational photography is based on the collection of data and there is no original image, therefore the idea of objectivity is no longer tenable" - World Press Photo Image doctoring Colour grading Staging Scraping Misattribution Point of view Stylistic manipulations
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Privoz: Goods for everyone
By: Arman Gharibyan Privoz is the biggest market in Odessa where you can find everything - fresh meat and fish, sea food, milk products, fruits and vegetables and many other things. The prices are negotiable, but scales might be unreliable.
Top: Privoz has a special unit for fresh and smoked fish. Middle: Privoz: Goods for everyone. Bottom left: A woman asks the vendor to mince the meat she has bought. Bottom right: Cabbage for everyone
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The bride of the sea
By: Masha Chelova
Top left: A Captain's ID in his his daughter's room. Top right: Odessa harbor through the gate in Shevchenko Park. Bottom left: Newly-weds on Primorskii Boulevard. Bottom right: Lena, a captain's wife: 'I married for love and begged him to quit going to sea'.
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Exploring another side of nightlife in Odessa
- Party after a long working day By: Ksenia Omelchenko
Top: The “Exit” bar is always open to your musical experiments. Bottom left: Chairs in the “Exit” bar. Bottom right: Back to the 80s in the Green theatre.
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To be Odessan
By: Diana Takacsova
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A night in Odessa
By: Khayyam N.
Top: If you want your picture taken with the bird, find the girl around the Opera House in Odessa. Bottom left: Odessa’s people are watching the guy who is feeling drum hits in his veins. Bottom right: Don’t need to be a basketball player to win the game in Derybasiv’ka street.
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Odessa port
By: Orkhan Mammad Euromaidan star Yulia Marushevskaya taking on corruption in Odessa's ports
"We are fighting on two fronts: one inside the country against corruption and the other in the east of the country, against Russia." - Yulia Marushevskaya In a recent press conference in Ukraine’s port city of Odessa, the 26-year-old Ukrainian star of ‘EuroMaidan’ and the city’s port customs chief, Yulia Marushevskaya, shared some information about herself, the port workers of the town and various other aspects of her work. Born in Kiev, Yulia Marushevskaya became famous after publishing the popular, “I am Ukrainian” video during the Euromaidan movement in Ukraine in November of 2013. In the video, Yulia called out to the world saying, “we are fighting against authoritarian regimes and against corruption. Please help us.” After the video became famous around the world, Russian media began disseminating propaganda claiming that Yulia was an American spy. After receiving a master's degree from the prestigious Stanford University, she began her PhD in Kiev. During the Maidan movement, the young activist was teaching at the university. She said she had participated in rallies with her students and family. Two leaders cross paths in Panama and become divided during Maidan A few months ago, journalistic investigations mentioned hundreds of high-ranking officials in the panama papers, which took the world by surprise. In those documents, the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev were among those mentioned. So what do those presidents think about Maidan? One of them sees Europe extending its hand to them and offering a way out, while the other sees it as a ‘dirty’ hand. Ukraine's Euromaidan movement is remembered every year on the same day in Ukraine as Dignity and Freedom Day and celebrated by the president, Petro Poroshenko who personally attends rallies in honor of the day. Poroshenko has stated that Ukraine has “fulfilled the technical conditions for visa - free travel within the European Union and now [looks] forward to their decision.” Ilham Aliyev's views are at odds with those of his Ukranian counterpart. Aliyev speaks strongly and critically about the Maidan movement: “They want to create the same kind of movement in Azerbaijan. They tempt young people, but we consistently expose their dirty deeds. The stability and development of normal life goes on. We have protected our country from calamity; we cut off those dirty hands to protect our country and will ensure the security and development of our people.” The road to public office from the Maidan movement 47
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Upon his appointment to the governorship of Odessa, Mikhail Saakashvili started to gather young and talented people around him. Of course, he did not ignore the shining star of Maidan, young Yuliya. After the Maidan movement, he trained her at some of the most prestigious universities in the world. After that, he appointed her to Odessa's government. Marushevskaya accomplished a lot of work in just a few months, which caught the government's eye. She was appointed head of customs of Odessa, which is Ukraine's largest sea port. President Poroshenko was present at the appointment ceremony. Both Saakashvili and Marushevskaya are disliked by the central government. Saakashvili went to war against corruption of high-ranking officials. Yulia, after taking office, adopted the motto of the Next Generation. Therefore, she didn't make any friends with senior officials. Ukraine's border customs have been open to change, but the situation of Azerbaijan’s customs department and the corruption within the system seem otherwise. Georgian customs can be cleared within several minutes, while Azerbaijani customs are notorious for taking hours. Despite this, Azerbaijan’s customs checkpoints tend to be more porous than those of Georgia when it comes to narcotics shipments. Moreover, journalists and other social activists are routinely stopped at border checkpoints, where they can be remanded into custody of the police. Attempts to contact the Customs Administration of Azerbaijan regarding these problems was unsuccessful. The press service of the State Customs Committee did not respond to questions posed to them by Meydan TV correspondents, and hung up.
"We thought that during the Maidan movement, if we made a few changes, everything would work out fine…" - Yulia Marushevskaya The head of Ukraine's largest customs office for close to a year, 26-year-old Julia Marushevskaya determined that the customs office in Odessa, which was the country's most corrupt, wanted bribes for everything. "If you have a strong will, you can fight against corruption. We thought that during the Maidan movement, if we made changes, everything would be fine. But now I understand that we have to work hard and to go to war against corruption. It's a hard job. " Odessa seaport is the largest port in Ukraine, where millions are stolen every month by the local mafia, administrators and politicians. Marushevskaya says, "I wanted to make customs more transparent. We began construction of a new building, which is surrounded by windows. The customs system became electronic. Tankers that can carry tens of thousands of tons can get their documentation within a few hours and in a transparent way. It was hard for us because the central government is living in the past and we want to move forward. This is a war waged between the future and the past.” Local media outlets and forward-thinking government forces watch in amazement at the innovative changes taking place in Odessa customs. The head of major media outlets around the world document the progress of the 26-year-old customs chief at work in Odessa. The war with Russia, according to Marushevskaya After the Maidan movement, there was a shift of power more aligned to the West which worried supporters of Russia in Ukraine. This concern resulted in eastern Ukraine breaking off with Russian separatist militants. In April 2014, a war in Donbass took place between the Ukrainian military and 48
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the separatists. Even though Putin has always stated Russia has not taken sides in the conflict, the media openly supports the separatists. Even in his speech, Poroshenko said 2,000 Ukranian servicemen had been killed as a result of Russian aggression. Ukrainians and the separatists are still at war. Now and again skirmishes pop up and occasionally escalate. Yulia says we are fighting two fronts; one inside the country against corruption and the other in the east of the country against Russia.
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Spotlights
By: Lena Skachkova Our vision of the world depends a lot on the mood we wake up in. Walking a new path to a familiar place we notice different things every time. These are the spotlights of our day.
Left: Michelangelo was once asked: «How do you make all those wonderful masterpieces?» He answered: «I just take material and cut out everything I don’t need». Don't cut too much when carving your own point of view from the stratum of information. Top right: You can see something you saw before from a different perspective. Bottom right: Beautiful can seem ugly; old can become new, truth can be lies sometimes.
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Film studio Odessa
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Humans of Odessa
By: Guga Chkhikvishvili
Top: "It's been 15 years that people can't trick me. 15 years ago I decided to stop watching TV". Bottom left: "We try not to lie each other, we don't want to be like others". Bottom right: "I want to be perfect - it's the biggest lie I've heard in my life"
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Street action Être-jeté-là
By: Nikolay Vdovenko The ninth international festival of experimental theater "Milk" opened with a large-scale street performance near Odessa Cultural Center.
Top left: Actors carry fire from all sides of the stage. Middle left: The evil demon strikes sparks. Right: Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve. Bottom left: In the end everything dies, except for the two children who are starting a new life.
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Tourism in Odessa
By Karen Tovmasyan
Top: "Jumping into the deep". Arcadia beach is also famous for attracting people who like diving and jumping into the sea. People stand in lines awaiting their turn to jump into the water. Bottom left: "Colourful umbrellas" at the main entrance of Arcadia beach. Bottom right: Untitled
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Advertisment
By: Tatia Meltauri
Top left: "We can make a deal". Top right: "I don't have time to explain, just come". Bottom left: "Shisha in 100 m." Bottom right: "Pussy girls"
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Imprint
The idea behind the Shift. Shape. Mobilize. network sprung from the German Federal Agency for Civic Education and was further developed in a partnership with the NGOs Sourcefabric and n-ost. The network's activities are funded by the foreign ministry of Germany.
The Federal Agency for Civic Education
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung Adenauerallee 86 53113 Bonn Tel +49 (0)228 99515-0 Fax +49 (0)228 99515-113 www.bpb.de/
Network for Reporting on Eastern Europe
Netzwerk für Osteuropa-Berichterstattung Alexandrinenstrasse 2-3 Aufgang C D-10969 Berlin Tel +49–(0)30–2593283–0Fax +49–(0)30–2593283–24 www.n-ost.org
Sourcefabric
Sourcefabric Prinzessinnenstr. 20,
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Aufgang A 10969 Berlin +49 (0) 30 616 29 281 www.sourcefabric.org
Data Security Experts Katrin Rรถnicke is a blogger and journalist based in Germany. She writes for Freitag and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and works for the radio stations rbb and Audible. Marie Gutbub teaches information security for journalists at several universities and conferences. In 2014-2015, Marie organized CryptoParties in Berlin and across Europe to spread the movement through talks and workshops. In 2016 she was part of the organising team of the Logan CIJ Symposium.
Shift. Shape. Mobilize. - editorial team Julia Vernersson, George Damian, Nikolay Vdovenko, Teena Garnik, Helene Hahn, and Sergey Kozlovsky.
Photography All images (C) Nikolay Vdovenko, unless otherwise noted.
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