For some potentially awkward reading, go to just-launched Diplotwoops.org - a database of deleted tweets by diplomats.  

(Image: screenshot from an interview with Wainaina (right) on Kenya's NTV)

Writer and founder of the literary journal Kwani, Binyavanterga Wainaina, talks about coming out in Kenya in an interview with The Guardian. 

The Stop Secret Contracts campaign, led by the Open Knowledge Foundation and supported by a number of civil society groups, invites you to join them in the worldwide fight against corruption and fraud involving taxpayers' money. 

(Image: Journalists at the palatial Yanukovych compound. Published in the Kyiv Post. © Pavel Podufalov)

The Global Investigative Journalism Network looks at the collaborative journalistic efforts that led to the creation of Yanukovychleaks.org.

One of Tactical Tech's 2013 info-activism camp participants, Jean Brice Tetka, has organised a bar camp in Yaoundé for Feb 07, on the themes of “Access to information” and “Access to the Internet”.

Read our interview with Brice here.

(Screenshot from Ramy Essam's "Bread, Freedom, Justice")

A special issue of Muftah.org takes stock, three years down the line.

The issue includes a collection of 7 videos that “take a sharp look at the January 25 Egyptian revolution”.

(Images from killyourphone.com)

A berlin-based artist has published instructions for running a workshop where participants can make their own signal-blocking phone pouch. The workshop was piloted at lDecember's 30C3 in Hamburg.

An open letter signed by over 50 academics and researchers in the field of US cryptography and information-security calls upon the US government to “subject all mass-surveillance activities to public scrutiny and to resist the deployment of mass-surveillance programs in advance of sound technical and social controls.”

(Screenshot from the first video, titled "Bring me the Obedient Children", of Wainaina's new series.)

Binyavanga Wainaina, award-winning Kenyan writer and founder of the literary journal Kwani, has released the first of a 6-part series called “We must free our imaginations”. The series comes after he publicly outed himself in response to the recent anti-gay laws and bills of Nigeria and Uganda.

Join EFF and others on February 11 for a day of protest against mass surveillance.