The article discusses the role of collaboration in innovation, emphasizing that community efforts can drive as much progress as competitive pursuits. Isabela Fernandes, the executive director of the Tor Project, advocates for open-source software as a key player in enhancing internet accessibility and privacy. Through her work, she highlights the importance of internet anonymity for activists while arguing against the misconception that online privacy is only for those with something to hide. The discussion emphasizes the necessity of building technology that serves the community's needs better.
Many in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs only from competition, a race to build the next big thing first, cheaper, better, best. But what if collaboration and community breeds innovation just as well as adversarial competition?
As executive director of the Tor Project - the nonprofit behind the decentralized, onion-routing network providing crucial online anonymity to activists and dissidents around the world - she has fought tirelessly for everyone to have private access to an uncensored internet.
Fernandes joins EFF's Cindy Cohn and Jason Kelley to discuss the importance of not just accepting technology as it's given to us, but collaboratively breaking it, tinkering with it, and rebuilding it together until it becomes the technology that we really need.
The importance of making more websites friendly and accessible to Tor and similar systems; how Tor can actually benefit law enforcement; and how free, open-source software can power economic booms.
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