Category Archives: Talks

CEO Brian Armstrong sits down with Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation, and Alejandro Machado of the Open Money Initiative to talk Crypto and use cases in developing countries.

Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. Across his career he has promoted free and open societies.

Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. Across his career he has promoted free and open societies.

Alex Gladstein – From Wechat to Bitcoin: Why We Need Decentralised Technology As we innovate and build technologies we have difficult choices to make regarding how we treat data. What if apps like Wechat, used by over a billion people, feeds data regarding behaviors, demographics and social networks back to the government? That’s where blockchainContinue reading “From Wechat to Bitcoin”

Tech platforms have spurred revolutions and stoked extremism. What is technology’s role in protecting the fourth estate and the journalists within it? Abdalaziz Alhamza, Co-Founder of RBSS, Trevor Timm, Co-Founder & ED of Freedom of the Press Foundation; and Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer at Human Rights Foundation discuss.

Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation, describes initiatives to deliver information into North Korea with the aim of bolstering civil society. He focuses on one particular effort that involves the distribution flash drives loaded with content selected by North Korean defectors.

“The World” television program on ABC News 24 in Australia interviewed HRF chief strategy officer Alex Gladstein about the initiative “Flash Drives for Freedom,” which collects flash drives from Americans and then ship them to North Korean defector groups. These organizations will then fill the USB drives with films, TV shows, and Wikipedia pages andContinue reading “Smuggling the outside world into North Korea”