Crowdsourced Q&A Today
Today at 3:30 pm CT is the live conversation with Glenn Greenwald here at SxSW Interactive – and we’ve been officially crowdsourcing questions for him on AskThem. Livestream link to come shortly here, and you can follow along with our transcriptions of his answers by following @AskThemPPF, #askgreenwald.
Almost 100 questions have been asked of Glenn on our free, open-source, open-data platform for online dialogue. How cool is that. Â AskThem can work to crowdsource issues for everything from city council meetings to tech conferences to rolling AMA’s (“Ask Me Anything”, Reddit-style).
Thanks to our non-profit advisor Micah Sifry for helping facilitate the use of AskThem, it’s a terrific example for our project. Check out TechPresident and their Personal Democracy Forum conference, June 5-6th in NYC, it’s the best tech-politics conference on the circuit (this year will be my 10th in a row, missed only the first one). Let’s work together to ask good questions -Â present its recipient with a problem that must be resolved.
It’s not too late to ask your own question on AskThem – it really can be raised!
Top questions to Glenn Greenwald by signatures – as of March 10th, 2014
How can we encourage greater Congressional oversight of NSA domestic surveillance? Â – 169 signatures (over 100 threshold) – by David of AskThem (NYC)
How can we protect whistleblowers like Kiriakou, Snowden, Manning, Brown, Hammond etc.? – 69 signatures – by Kip of McMurray, PA
How effective have the NSAs efforts to prevent future leaks been so far? – 42 sigs – by Nicholas of Fight For the Future
Glenn Greenwald participates on AskThem.
When is First Look going to hire more women and POC journalists? – 31 sigs – by Ingrid of NY
What can journalists do to combat NSA surveillance fatigue? – 25 sigs – by Valerie of CA
Why did you choose to help the imprisoned journalist Barrett Brown? – 24 sigs – by Kevin of Amherst, MA
Are there enough people investigating government surveillance programs? – 13 sigs -by Ying of Fight For the Future, Northampton, MA
Why haven’t outspoken NSA critics in congress not used Article 1, Section 6 to reveal information? – 9 sigs – by Michael of Evergreen Park, IL
Do we know if the NSA has compromised Internet Certificate Authorities (e.g. Verisign, GeoTrust)? – 8 sigs – by Mike, abroad
Is it possible for a state to not use technology to surveil as much as it possibly can? – 8 sigs – by Jed of San Diego, CA – great question!
How can a young adult like myself get my peers more involved and more concerned about The NSA? – 6 sigs – by nathan of Rockford, MI
Why are schools failing to inform students that their privacy is being violated by the NSA? – 3 signs – by Jeffrey of Las Cruces, NM
If you could give one piece of advice to aspiring journalists, what would it be? – 6 signatures – Brittany of Lansing, MI
Information that would be so damaging it outweighs the general society’s right to know? – 4 sigs – by Zak of MO
What is your favorite kind of cookie? – 3 signatures – by “National Security” of Fort Meade, MD – LOL indeed, not too shabby there, glad to host this question actually.
How has the NSA used other countries’ intel. services to circumvent the constitution when it can’t? – 3 sigs – Marc, abroad
Do you see the Fourth Amendment as being absolute or as presenting a trade-off: privacy & security? – 2 sigs – by Richard
Will the Brazilian government grant asylum to Snowden? – by Alberto of Sherman Oaks, CA
Do you see a chance to weaken the NSA by a strong EU community? Via econnomical independance? – by Jurgen, abroad
Can you suggest a short list of who you consider to be the best journalists worldwide? – by David, abroad
After the event you can filter your view of questions to Glenn that received answers and more. Follow along – @AskThemPPF on micropublishing (#askgreenwald), and AskThem’s Facebook page.