Fair Tech | Tecnologia Justa 2011 is a week long service/participatory learning trip to San Ramon, Nicaragua in early January of 2011. The primary focus will be on the issue of the fair and appropriate use of information technology in emerging economies. You can learn more about this upcoming tip at: http://fairtech2011.wordpress.com/

A little over a month back, we ran an interview with Eric Volz as a part of our coverage of the Berkeley Human Rights Center's conference, The Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media. Volz was a panelist at the conference, where he discussed his experience as a political prisoner in Nicaragua, the online campaign which helped to keep his case alive, and the pros and cons of staging similar campaigns.

While working on a magazine in Nicaragua, Eric Volz was convicted in the murder of his ex-girlfriend in November of 2006. He spent a little over a year in jail there until the conviction was overturned by an appeals court in December of the following year.