Turning TechCamp Kyiv Into a Sustainable Movement

9.(U) TechCamp Kyiv was not just a two-day event. It was also an opportunity to bring together civil society
leaders from Ukraine and Belarus connecting them with each other while building bridges to U.S. technology
experts. Our follow-up mission will be to transform TechCamp into a sustainable movement that brings civil
society together with the technology that they need. Embassy Kyiv has already reached beyond the technology

and civil society sectors by inviting private corporations and philanthropic foundations to interact with
participants at TechCamp and share information about the resources that they have available for
NG0s. Representatives from Microsoft Ukraine, Intel Ukraine Microelectronics, Coca Cola, the Pinchuk
Foundation, Hot Source LLC, Softjourn Inc, Soft-Rating Consult, WorldAPP Inc, and MediaNext attended
parts of TechCamp Kyiv. Microsoft, in particular, was very generous in their support of civil society
organizations offering free software and interacting with TechCamp participants via social media platforms.

10. (U) Embassy Kyiv also conducted follow-on events in order to put the expertise of visiting U.S. technology
experts to use in order to expand our audience beyond the 100 civil society leaders that we were able to invite
to Kyiv. Thanks to IREX' Bibliomist program which offered free use of their technology training centers in the
cities of Donetsk and Kharkiv, TechCamp trainers were able to provide hands-on training for 40 additional
NGO activists and librarians the following weekend. Three TechCamp trainers joined us "on the road" to

share their ideas on using online games for social causes; made presentations on FrontlineSMS as a way to
conduct two-way communication without the use of an intemet connection; and discussed new advocacy
techniques for expanding the impact and reach of each participant's program and message.

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12. (U) Embassy Kyiv plans to use these new technologies and social media to further the development of
NGOs and promote sustainability. We also plan to host an event in Kyiv in three to six months where civil
society organizers can come together to share their best practices, success stories and progress working on the
proposals that they developed at TechCamp. We are also in contact with Microsoft Ukraine about this

proposed event and hope to involve other private sector partners. We also plan to bring in U.S. technology
experts in order to share their expertise, specifically pertaining to the funding and implementation of new
projects.

Vera Sharav is a public advocate for human rights is the founder and president of the Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP). As a Holocaust survivor she has previous first-hand experience of totalitarian regimes.

During her testimony given on Day 6 of the Grand Jury Proceedings her statement included::

“As we know, honesty is nowhere to be found within the corporate dominated government and public health agencies. So, for two years, we’ve all been subjected to the psychological weapons that the Nazis use to maintain a state of anxiety.

“The horrific scenes of police in black uniforms brutally attacking demonstrators in European cities, in Ottawa, in Australia, and in Israel. These scenes are absolute painful reminders of the Holocaust. The objective under the Nazis, and now, is actually exactly the same. It is to gain control over people’s lives by conditioning them to obey government directives no matter what.

“Eugenics was crafted and appeals to the elite segments of society. But it also appeals to the corporate oligarchs and selected government officials, and that’s more important.

“The British eugenicists provided the theoretical foundation which has then been used to justify social and economic inequality, to legitimise discrimination and apartheid, as well as violence against dissenters. But it was the American robber barons who provided the financial, the practical, means that set in motion public policies and population control legislation.

“In 1915, a joint eugenics venture was brokered by John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, and Mrs. E. H. Harriman, mother of the future statesman Avril Harriman.

“They funded a massive lobbying campaign for the enactment of laws to sterilise those whom they deemed unfit. Sterilisation laws were first enacted in 28 States. In the United States, their objective was to sterilise 10% of the American population. That was 15 million Americans. This was to be accomplished under the guise of improving public health and the human race.

“US sterilisation laws served as, you know, the model for the Nazi racial hygiene laws.”

Below is the video of Sharav’s testimony and the transcript.

Grand Jury - Day 6 Part 5 0f 5 - Eugenics and Outlook - Vera Sharav - AHRP Founder, Holocaust surv.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/EhVKshU15PK4/