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International Human Rights Day
2009
VaultletSoft Stands with
Human Rights Defenders
in Announcing "Project Autonomy"
Washington, D.C., December 10, 2009
– VaultletSoft has decided to show its solidarity with Human Rights
Defenders worldwide on this day by announcing the kickoff of Project
Autonomy, whose goals will be two fold:
1) Help to disseminate and maintain
the technical know-how and infrastructure necessary to facilitate
free and/or low-cost and easy to use secure communication (email,
chat, etc.) between Human Rights Defenders (HRDs), their colleagues
and parent organizations, journalists and other interested parties.
2) Create and maintain localized
and localizable versions of this software such that any and all
interested users and participants may use this software in the
language of their choice.
In order to accomplish this, VaultletSoft will release
an Open Source version of what is currently called “VaultletSuite
2 Go, v2.9”. This Open Source version should be published for
the first time in the Summer of 2010, once sufficient organizational
preparation has been achieved and v3.0 of the VaultletSuite 2
Go has been developed.
In order to better support Project Autonomy,
VaultletSoft Inc. will spin off its Human Rights and NGO activities
into an independent non-profit entity called “Valeso.org”.
This name is a contraction of VaultletSoft
with the addition of the “.org” domain suffix to denote its non-profit
orientation.
VaultletSoft's President, R. P. Ruiz, calls for
all those with translation, cross-cultural organization, and technical
skills to:
“...roll up their sleeves and support the
important, and often dangerous, work of Human Rights Defenders
world wide by actively participating in Project Autonomy”.
For additional information on “Project Autonomy”, please contact
R. P. Ruiz directly using the VaultletMail DropBox
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To get started localizing the VaultletSuite 2 Go into your language,
go here.
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What Others Are Saying,
Take I
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We all need security
and privacy. This is a fundamental need of any human
being.
Front Line cooperates
with people who require it to a much greater extent
because of the work they do - the Human rights defenders
that we work with defend other's rights and lives
at great risk to their own.
VaultletSoft gives
them great software to increase their security and
privacy. As a result, we have included their “VaultletSuite
2 Go” in our multilingual 'Security in-a-box' a toolkit
of guides and software which is the basis of all the
digital security training we conduct. These guides
and the software that they document have been translated
into English, Spanish, French, Russian and Arabic.
We look forward
to our continued and successful collaboration with
VaultletSoft and Valeso.org
Wojtek Bogusz,
Digital Security and
Information Systems Co-ordinator
Front Line, the International Foundation for the Protection
of Human Rights Defenders (frontlinedefenders.org) |
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What Others Are Saying, Take II
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As an expert that
has been working internationally with Human Rights
Defenders for the last decade (providing them with
internet security training and support), I am pleased
to support VaultletSoft's latest initiative: to provide
an Open Source version of “VaultletSuite 2 Go” for
Human Rights Defenders world wide.
This is a huge step
forward for both VaultletSoft and the Human Rights
community, and will serve to increase the level of
openness and transparency which VaultletSoft has embraced
from the very beginning.
The upcoming Open
Source version also demonstrates the depth of VaultletSoft's
ongoing commitment to the Human Rights community and
is the result of a number of long-running conversations
which sought to bring easy-to-use secure email to
an even wider international audience.
I wish VaultletSoft
success in this endeavor, and encourage both the Open
Source and Human Rights communities to embrace the
further development and translation of the VaultletSuite
2 Go into a number of underserved languages such as
Burmese, Vietnamese, Thai and Farsi.
Robert Guerra,
Project Director,
Internet Freedom, Freedom House (freedomhouse.org) |
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