Being an entrepreneur, the trait of loving risks and taking action is something that you're born with. However, this post is not about risks - but taking action !
On 29th January 2014, I received an email from Mozilla asking all Mozillians to help raise awareness and promote data privacy education. In honor of this day, Mozilla pulled together a number of opportunities for Mozillians to get involved and earn a Privacy Action-Taker Badge - just in-case anyone thinks that doing good isn't much a reward itself ... :)
My start-up 404-Solutions is currently incubated in Plan9 - Pakistan's largest Tech Incubator, so along with Mehmood Ali (CTO - 404 Solutions), I planned a little activity to help spread awareness about Data Privacy among fellow incubated start-ups. We went to each one of the start-ups individually and educated them about Data Privacy by explaining the six privacy principles that stem from the Mozilla Manifesto and demonstrating the use of Firefox Add-on Lightbeam that how it enables us to track the trackers! Moreover, we had a fresh copy of Firefox (for windows and Mac) which we installed in the machines of those people who were not ready to compromise on their data privacy.
In the pictures below, Farhan Ahmed from the start-up Tourplanner.pk is installing a copy of Firefox on his personal laptop. Also, he recently became a Firefox Student Ambassador.
This is how I took action and (rightfully) claimed the Privacy Action-Taker Badge. Mozilla Open Badges is not proprietary. It’s free software and an open
technical standard any organization can use to create, issue and verify
digital badges. You can collect badges from multiple sources, online and off, into a single
backpack. Then display your skills and achievements on social networking
profiles, job sites, websites and more.To earn Mozilla Open Badges, visit the following link http://openbadges.org/earn/ and follow the instructions. Chao !
On 29th January 2014, I received an email from Mozilla asking all Mozillians to help raise awareness and promote data privacy education. In honor of this day, Mozilla pulled together a number of opportunities for Mozillians to get involved and earn a Privacy Action-Taker Badge - just in-case anyone thinks that doing good isn't much a reward itself ... :)
My start-up 404-Solutions is currently incubated in Plan9 - Pakistan's largest Tech Incubator, so along with Mehmood Ali (CTO - 404 Solutions), I planned a little activity to help spread awareness about Data Privacy among fellow incubated start-ups. We went to each one of the start-ups individually and educated them about Data Privacy by explaining the six privacy principles that stem from the Mozilla Manifesto and demonstrating the use of Firefox Add-on Lightbeam that how it enables us to track the trackers! Moreover, we had a fresh copy of Firefox (for windows and Mac) which we installed in the machines of those people who were not ready to compromise on their data privacy.
In the pictures below, Farhan Ahmed from the start-up Tourplanner.pk is installing a copy of Firefox on his personal laptop. Also, he recently became a Firefox Student Ambassador.
Next, we have One Step Solutions - already Firefox enthusiasts, enjoying the Lightbeam demo.
Start-ups Baby Planet and Bookme.pk also showed keen interest in the topic under discussion and installed fresh copies of Firefox on their machines
The most interesting discussion took place with Court Piece (RUNG) - A game studio reviving traditional and popular games of the sub-continent. They even declared their support for Firefox and installed fresh copies on their machines.
