On what happened on Twitter when the Turkish government tried to ban it.

The Take Back the Tech campaign invites you to join them in a global conversation on “how the internet can streingthen and better facilitate feminist activism,” among other related questions. You can join them in the debate on twitter from 07-15 March.

Free Syria’s Silenced Voices aims to bring to light the targeting of civil society activists, media and humanitarian workers – many of whom have been arrested or abducted in the last three years. The campaign has started with the “documentation of 37 emblematic cases”.

A giant art installation in the form of an enormous poster of a child victim aims to evoke empathy in drone operators targeting Pakistan.

More on drones in Pakistan in our short film Unseen War.

The New York Review of Books has posted audio recordings and a brief summary of the conference on Power, Privacy and the Internet organised by the publication in February.

(Image: DIY aerial photography made with Palestinian children in Silwan, East Jerusalem).

In a piece on Public Lab, Hagit Keysar talks about DIY arial photography and community-based mapping, looking at 'the problem of design' and the obstacles this creates in terms of long-tail community engagement.

The Visualising Mill Road project used infographics painted onto pavements to inform the local community  about what other members of that community thought about specific issues (according to a locally-done survey).

The Open Knowledge Foundation has launched OpenMENA, “a work group within the Open Knowledge Foundation global community network that aims at bringing the values of an open and more collaborative society to the Middle East and North Africa.”

(Brett Scott. Image from Gentrifination).

The Gentrifination podcast interviews Brett Scott, author of The Heretics Guide to Global Finance.

“After rejecting it five times, Apple has finally approved an app that tracks every U.S. drone strike and sends a push notification to users every time a flying robot carries out a deadly mission around the world,” reports Mashable.