On 13th June, we'll be at the Central European Summer School for Journalists presenting work from both our programmes. We will be running two sessions on new tactics in investigative journalism and protecting investigative journalism.

In late May we had a kick-off sprint in Berlin to start writing a new, free handbook on working with data, and designing learning challenges that anyone can take to improve their skills to help them become 'data wranglers'. The School of Data is a collaboration between Tactical Tech, The Open Knowledge Foundation and Peer-2-Peer University - read more here.

Image by Gisha

To illuminate the  problems that the 1.7 million Gaza Strip residents encounter on a daily basis, an Israeli NGO called Gisha has created a Virtual Tour of Gaza. Through an interactive map of the Strip containing text, images and video, viewers can see how access policies have affected local infrastructure and education, as well as the economy.

We've been working on the first of our Info-Activist Sketchbooks, an online platform to visually present multiple perspectives and a critical overview of e-waste in Delhi. Coming soon!

A consultant for 6 months to work on a new toolkit "Communicating for Advocacy"

Marek was also in Brazil working with International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN) – a global network of more than 700 public interest non-governmental organizations working together for the elimination of persistent organic pollutants. They launched the NGO/CSO Global Common Statement for a Toxics-Free Future. Read and sign up.

Tactical Tech's co-founder Marek Tuszynski was part of a great line-up discussing data visualisation at the Global Voices summit in Nairobi.

We've just published the fourth and fifth in our series of Data and Design How-tos on our Drawing by Numbers site.

Data & Design How-to's Note 4: Visualisation basics – the three 'gets'

Find out how to help audiences to:

-Get the idea - which is about exposing the issue, and being exposed to it

-Get the story - which is about understanding an issue

Online comedy skits expose corruption in Kuwait;  an interactive “protest performance” questions ownership of the seafront in Beirut; and Syrian artists honour protesters through customised postage stamps.

Many of you have already looked through the Delhi Digests, our website mapping the life-cycle of electronic waste in the city of Delhi through photos, video, interviews and statistics. The project was recently featured in India's Sunday Guardian.