In May, Maya Ganesh went to a conference organised by the Oxford Internet Institute and University of Amsterdam focused on 'big data and social change in the developing world'. The white paper that came out of that event, collectively written by everyone who was there, was recently released.
Download the PDF.
As part of Tactical Tech's contribution to the LevelUp project, Sandra Ljubinkovic looks at why a 'safe space' is crucial for digital security trainings, and offers some tips. This piece also forms part of Tactical Tech's ongoing work in the area of Holistic Security; more on that coming soon!
(Image from Tactical Tech's info-activism camp in 2013)
Applications are open! (apply before 13 October 2014)
(Screenshot from Exposing the Invisible's Inspiration section)
It's not exactly a new release, but the INSPIRATION section of our Exposing the Invisible project gets updated regularly and is definitely worth a revisit now and then.
Read the Joint Statement by Tactical Tech and Front Line Defenders on the arrest of the Zone9 bloggers in Ethiopia, recently charged with treason for using free software.
Tactical Tech is delighted to announce the launch of a new guide, written in collaboration with human rights defenders from the LGBTI community in sub-Saharan Africa. The Guide is the second in our series of Security in-a-box Community Focus guides.
Our Me and My Shadow project includes info cards, downloadable for offline use.The latest language to be added is Urdu!
Topics include What are Digital Shadows, Nothing to Hide, Assessing the Risks, Endangering Others, Tracking, Metadata, and Does Encryption Still Work?
"The reality that matters now is not what we choose to photograph or film, the events we want to preserve for ourselves.....We are not recording, but are being collected: our lives are being collected." New post on our Visualising Information for Advocacy blog, by Marek Tuszynski.
Fresh from Tactical Studios, a new infographic produced for the Open Society Foundations, working with the RAND Think-tank, who conducted the research. The infographic visualises the main messages from 'Intolerance in Western Europe: Analysis of Trends and Associated Factors', a study on long-term trends in ethnic, national, racial and religious intolerance in Europe.
