Here is a tailored invitation for Meredith Whittaker, positioned around privacy, encryption, secure communications, public-interest technology, and the risks of AI-driven surveillance.
Dear Meredith,
I hope this finds you well.
I am writing to invite you to participate in MOBILIZED: CONVERGENCE, a new global media-and-action experience from Mobilized News designed to bring together the people, ideas, tools, and public-interest solutions needed to redesign systems for life.
The purpose of CONVERGENCE is simple but urgent:
How do we move from systems that extract, divide, confuse, and control — to systems that inform, connect, restore, and empower?
Your leadership on privacy, encryption, secure communications, AI accountability, and the defense of human agency in digital systems speaks directly to the heart of this initiative. At a time when communication, identity, data, and intelligence are increasingly mediated by private platforms and opaque systems, your voice helps clarify what is at stake: democracy, autonomy, safety, trust, and the right to communicate without surveillance.
CONVERGENCE is not being designed as a traditional conference or vendor expo. It is being created as a living media commons and working assembly: part public-interest technology forum, part solutions showcase, part live newsroom, part collaboration network, and part global action lab.
Our operating framework is:
Signals → Stories → Solutions → Events → Collaboration → Action
We would be honored to invite you to participate as a Keynote Catalyst and strategic voice for one of the central themes of the event:
Privacy, Encryption and Civic Trust in the Age of AI
Some of the questions we hope to explore include:
- Why is privacy essential to democracy, public safety, and human freedom?
- How do secure communications protect journalists, communities, civil society, public-interest organizations, and ordinary people?
- What happens when AI systems become embedded into everyday communication, work, identity, and decision-making?
- How can communities defend themselves against surveillance, manipulation, data extraction, and platform dependency?
- What should people, institutions, and governments understand about encryption as civic infrastructure?
- How can digital systems be designed to protect trust instead of exploiting it?
Your perspective would help frame one of the defining questions of our time:
Can we build digital systems that strengthen human agency rather than quietly replacing it with surveillance, automation, and control?
We are inviting a founding circle of leaders across digital sovereignty, open-source infrastructure, digital democracy, ethical AI, public digital goods, cybersecurity, regenerative economics, independent media, and community resilience.
The goal is not only to host conversations, but to produce practical outcomes, including:
- A Community Privacy and Secure Communications Toolkit
- A Cybersecurity as Public Safety Action Guide
- A Trustworthy Technology and AI Accountability Checklist
- A Public-Interest Digital Infrastructure Solutions Map
- Live and recorded interviews for global distribution
- Practical pathways for journalists, nonprofits, schools, civic groups, public agencies, and communities to protect privacy, strengthen trust, and adopt secure digital practices
Mobilized News was founded on the belief that a well-informed public is the most powerful and valuable natural resource of all. With CONVERGENCE, we are creating a platform where knowledge does not remain isolated, but becomes shared capability.
We would be grateful to explore your participation in one or more of the following ways:
- Opening keynote or featured conversation
- Privacy, encryption, and public-interest technology systems lab
- Interview for Mobilized News
- Strategic advisory conversation
- Contributor to the Community Privacy and Secure Communications Toolkit
- Partner introduction to aligned digital rights, privacy, media, and civil society initiatives
We believe your voice would be essential in helping participants understand that privacy is not a luxury, encryption is not an obstacle, and secure communication is not a niche issue. These are foundations for public trust, democracy, journalism, community safety, and human dignity.
Thank you for considering this invitation. We would be honored to speak with you or your team and explore how MOBILIZED: CONVERGENCE can amplify and support the work you are already helping lead.
With appreciation and respect,
Steven Jay
Co-Founder and Executive Producer
Mobilized News
MobilizedNews.com
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