<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thanks for the info, James. I just signed up for the course!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>N</span></div><div> </div><div><br style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;"><br>Nnenna Nwakanma | Founder and CEO, NNENNA.ORG | Consultants<br>Information | Communications | Technology and Events | for Development<br>Cote d'Ivoire (+225)| Tel: 225 27144 | Fax 224 26471 |Mob. 07416820<br>Ghana: +233 249561345| Nigeria:
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This is a free online course by University of Michigan CS Prof Alex Halderman, an expert<br>in the field. Officially it started yesterday, but one can register and start when one<br>wants. I could be wrong (I often am), but I thought it might interest some here.<br><br><a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/digitaldemocracy" target="_blank">https://www.coursera.org/course/digitaldemocracy</a><br><br>Securing Digital Democracy<br>J. Alex Halderman<br>In this course, you'll learn what every citizen should know about the security risks--and<br>future potential - of electronic voting and Internet voting.<br><br>Sign Up<br><br><br>Watch intro video<br>Started on: 3 September 2012 (5 weeks long)<br>Workload: 2-3 hours/week <br>Information, Technology, and Design<br>Computer Science: Systems, Security, Networking<br> <br><br>About the Course<br>Computer technology has transformed how we participate in democracy. The way we cast our<br>votes, the
way our votes are counted, and the way we choose who will lead are increasingly<br>controlled by invisible computer software. Most U.S. states have adopted electronic<br>voting, and countries around the world are starting to collect votes over the Internet.<br>However, computerized voting raises startling security risks that are only beginning to be<br>understood outside the research lab, from voting machine viruses that can silently change<br>votes to the possibility that hackers in foreign countries could steal an election. This<br>course will provide the technical background and public policy foundation that 21st<br>century citizens need to understand the electronic voting debate. You'll learn how<br>electronic voting and Internet voting technologies work, why they're being introduced, and<br>what problems they aim to solve. You'll also learn about the computer- and<br>Internet-security risks these systems face and the serious vulnerabilities that
recent<br>research has demonstrated. We'll cover widely used safeguards, checks, and balances - and<br>why they are often inadequate. Finally, we'll see how computer technology has the<br>potential to improve election security, if it's applied intelligently. Along the way,<br>you'll hear stories from the lab and from the trenches on a journey that leads from Mumbai<br>jail cells to the halls of Washington, D.C. You'll come away from this course<br>understanding why you can be confident your own vote will count - or why you should<br>reasonably be skeptical.<br><br>About the Instructor(s)<br>J. Alex Halderman is an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the<br>University of Michigan. His research spans computer security and tech-centric public<br>policy, including topics such as software security, data privacy, electronic voting,<br>censorship resistance, and cybercrime, as well as technological aspects of intellectual<br>property law
and government regulation. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University. <br>A noted expert on electronic voting security, Prof. Halderman helped demonstrate the first<br>voting machine virus, participated in California's "top-to-bottom" electronic voting<br>review, and exposed election security flaws in India, the world's largest democracy. He<br>recently led a team from the University of Michigan that hacked into Washington D.C.'s<br>Internet voting system. In his spare time, he reprogrammed a touch-screen voting machine<br>to play Pac-Man <br><br>Recommended Background<br>Most of this course will be accessible to non-technical students. We will provide optional<br>materials for those with some college-level computer science background.<br><br>--<br>James S. Tyre<br>Law Offices of James S. Tyre<br>10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512<br>Culver City, CA 90230-4969<br>310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax)<br><a ymailto="mailto:jstyre@jstyre.com"
href="mailto:jstyre@jstyre.com">jstyre@jstyre.com</a><br>Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation<br><a href="https://www.eff.org/" target="_blank">https://www.eff.org</a><br><br><br><br><br><br>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a ymailto="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org">governance@lists.igcaucus.org</a><br>To be removed from the list, visit:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing" target="_blank">http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing</a><br><br>For all other list information and functions, see:<br> <a href="http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance" target="_blank">http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance</a><br>To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:<br> <a href="http://www.igcaucus.org/"
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