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12:00 to 13:00
Global Gathering Meet and Greet Brunch
Complimentary brunch bites, networking, and opening remarks. Join us for good food, music, and make connections!
Join the fun to defend reality against deceptive AI and deep fakes by playing “The Hunt @ Global Gathering 2025”, a multi-day photo and video scavenger hunt using the Proofmode camera app. Learn how to play at: https://proofmode.org/thehuntgg2025 and find the printed gamecards around the Feira.... hosted by the Guardian Project:
Self-Organized Socials | |
| Arrange or check out the list of Self-Organized Socials taking place off-site (but close by) locations, ranging from meetups to numerous activities. https://pad.riseup.net/p/GGSocials | |
| A Sample of Today's Socials: |
Circles and VillagesYou can find detailed Circle descriptions the end of this page. You can also organize your own self-organized Circle or Booth in the empty spaces (marked SOC TBD) by following these instructions. | |||
| Location | |||
| Circle 1 | Digital Rights X Climate Justice: Meet Up! | Digital Rights in Portugal: Where Do We Go From Here? | |
| Circle 2 | |||
| Circle 3 | Africa Meetup | Security Practioners Meetup | AI Accountability in Practice: Centering Community Voices |
| Circle 4 | Western Europe Meetup | Gathering the Gatherers | Tackling Misinformation Through Open Tools and Civic Literacy |
| Circle 5 | Migration and Digital Rights Meetup | Bridging Borders: Building Resilience Against Cross-Border Cyber Threats | |
| Circle 6 | Journalism Meetup | Remote Team Cohesion Best Practices | |
| Location | |||
| APC Village (Booth 7) |
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| Calyx Village (Booth 9) |
North America Meetup | Researchers Meetup | ED Meetup |
| Circumvention Tech Village (Booth 12) |
Technologist Meetup | Update on Censorship Circumvention Methods at Tor | |
| Digital Crossroads: EU Rules, Regional Realities (Booth 79) |
Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Caucasus (EECAC) Meetup | Policy Advocates Meetup | Anti-SLAPP Directive beyond EU borders |
| Open Measurement Gathering (OMG) Village (Booth 17) |
Are You My Measurement Tool? | Fighting Internet Censorship: Challenges and Needs | Internet Measurement Wish List |
| Digital Rights Sustainability Village (Main Stage) |
Imaginaries Futures (Part 1) | Brainstorm on Alternative Funding Models (part 1) | |
| Regional Topics A (Booth 21) |
Latin America Meetup | In the Face of Crises, Digital Care and Support for Sustainable Activism in Latin America | |
| Regional Topics B (Booth 22) |
Asia Meetup | Hong Kong Meetup | |
| SWANA Village (Booth 81) |
SWANA Meetup | Words & Actions: Digital Rights Status in the WANA region | |
BoothsYou can find detailed Booths & Villages descriptions at the bottom of this page. In the venue (IRL), each booth has a number, found on the top-center of each booth's "window". | |||||
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| Location | |||||
| Booth 4a | Feminist Helplines Community Booth | Feminist Helplines Community | |||
| Booth 4b | Amnezia VPN | Amnezia VPN | Amnezia VPN | Amnezia VPN | |
| Booth 5 | Dash Chat: Resilient Messenger for Internet Shutdowns | Darksoil Studio | |||
| Booth 6 | MaadiX | MaadiX | |||
| (APC Village) Booth 7 |
APC Village | APC | APC Village | APC | |
| Booth 8 | Article 19 & Yubico | Article | Article 19 & Yubico | Article | |
| (Calyx Village) Booth 9 |
Calyx Institute | Calyx Institute | Calyx Institute | Calyx Institute | |
| Booth 10 | Experience it! New Ways to Teach PGP, Anti-Censorship and Shutdown Preparedness | Conexion Segura y Libre | |||
| Booth 11 | Digital Action | Global Coalition for Tech Justice | |||
| (Circumvention Tech Village) Booth 12 |
Tor Project & Guardian Project | Tor Project | Tor Project & Guardian Project | Tor Project | |
| Booth 13 | |||||
| Booth 14 | Digital Defense Fund | Digital Defense Fund | Digital Defense Fund | Digital Defense Fund | |
| Booth 15 | Digital Safety Clinic | Access Now | Digital Safety Clinic | Access Now | |
| Booth 16 | Qubes OS | Qubes OS | |||
| (OMG Village) Booth 17 |
Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA) | IODA | Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) | Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) | |
| Booth 18 | Open Data Editor: What Did We Learn When Integrating the AI Feature? | Open Knowledge Foundation | |||
| Booth 19 | ReCIPE for Digital Rights | Oxfam, ReCIPE Project | |||
| (Regional Conversations A) Booth 21 |
Escuela Común + Red Abya Yala | Escuela Común + | |||
| (Regional Conversations B) Booth 22 |
SFLC.in : Promoting Open Knowledge, Free Speech, Online Privacy, Innovation & Equality | Softwware Freedom Law Center | |||
| Booth 78 | Leadership and Financial Resilience Coaching Support | Spring Strategies | |||
| (Digital Crossroads: EU Rules, Regional Realities) Booth 79 |
Human Constanta | Human Constanta | |||
| Booth 80 | Horizontal | Horizontal | |||
| (SWANA Village) Booth 81 |
A Conversation about Sudan | Global Gathering Attendee Coalition | |||
| Booth 82 | Palestine Booth | Solidarity Network of Palestinians and Allies | Palestine Booth | Solidarity Network of Palestinians and Allies | |
Global Gathering After Hours | |
| Join us for music and socializing in our beautiful venue. |
Partners
Villages Descriptions
Villages are "all-day hubs" focused on specific topics. They house both Booths and Circles.
| APC Village | APC | The APC Village is hosted by the Association for Progressive Communications and offers a space to explore feminist, human rights–based approaches to technology. Visit to learn about APC’s global initiatives, connect with network members, and share strategies for digital justice. |
| Calyx Village | Calyx Institute | Visit the Calyx Village to meet the team behind the Calyx Institute, exchange ideas on privacy and digital freedom. It’s a welcoming hub for learning and connection. |
| Circumvention Technology Village | Tor Project | The Circumvention Village is a hub for practitioners and researchers working on circumvention technology to connect, exchange ideas, and explore collaboration. It also welcomes newcomers, offering a space to learn about projects, and get answers to pressing questions |
| Digital Crossroads: EU Rules, Regional Realities | Digital Security Lab Ukraine | This Village focuses on the “Brussels effect” of new Digital Decade acts—platform regulation, AI governance, and Anti-SLAPP legislation—and their impact on communities in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Balkans. It will explore the practical challenges and opportunities of enhanced digital regulation within the EU legal order, with a particular focus on the rise of SLAPPs and strategies to counter them inside and outside the EU (including candidate countries). |
| Open Measurement Gathering (OMG) Village | Censored Planet, IODA, M-Lab and OONI | Step into the OMG Village to connect with OONI, IODA, M-Lab, and Censored Planet, and discover the latest tools for tracking internet censorship. It’s a space to learn, share experiences, and shape the future of open measurement. |
| Regional Conversations A & B Villages | Global Gathering Attendee Coalition | The Regional Conversations Villages (A & B) provide dedicated spaces for participants to connect around shared regional contexts. They are hubs for exchanging experiences, exploring cross-border challenges, and identifying opportunities for collaboration. |
| SWANA Village | Global Gathering Attendee Coalition | Join the SWANA Village to meet others from South West Asia and North Africa, exchange stories, and explore ways to tackle shared challenges. It’s a space for connection, collaboration, and strengthening solidarity across the region. |
Circle Descriptions
| Africa Meetup | Connect with individuals actively working in the African region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse African projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Africa digital rights community. |
| AI Accountability in Practice: Centering Community Voices | Understanding and evaluating Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and their societal impact is rarely rooted in the experiences, perspectives, and concerns of impacted communities and advocacy/rights groups. This Circle invites participants to share ideas and practices for advancing accountability and reducing harms in AI systems affecting their communities. Together, participants will explore advocacy techniques and strategies for contesting and holding them accountable to protect those most at risk. |
| Anti-SLAPP Directive beyond EU borders | Over the past two years, Eastern Europe and Central Asia have seen a troubling rise in Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs). This Circle brings together a) experts working on domestic anti-SLAPP legislation and supporting mechanisms for victims, b) individuals facing SLAPP cases. Participants will exchange experiences, best practices, and concerns. The discussion will also address whether existing instruments are effective measures to combat SLAPP and if they should be expanded to other jurisdictions. Also if a global standard is needed and what it should look like (e.g., expanding to criminal cases, covering all types of actors, etc). Notably, while international organisations have developed legal instruments to safeguard the victims of abusive court proceedings, they are largely inapplicable beyond the EU borders (Anti-SLAPP Directive) or have a recommendatory nature (the Council of Europe Anti-SLAPP Recommendation). |
| Are You My Measurement Tool? | Have you ever experienced an internet shutdown or censorship event but weren’t sure which open measurement tool to use? Join the Open Measurement Gathering (OMG) - made up of Censored Planet, IODA, M-Lab and OONI - who will guide you through which tools to use for different scenarios. Following the Global Gathering, the OMG group will release a public guide on which internet measurement datasets to refer to depending on the type of internet shutdown or censorship event you’re investigating. |
| Asia Meetup | Connect with individuals actively working in the Asia region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse Asian projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Asian digital rights community. |
| Bridging Borders: Building Resilience Against Cross-Border Cyber Threats | Meet other security practitioners and discuss how cross-border cyberattacks and data breaches are impacting CSOs, as cybercriminal groups exploit regional vulnerabilities, such as weak cybersecurity policies and inconsistent threat monitoring, to launch sophisticated multi-jurisdictional attacks that range from ransomware campaigns to state-sponsored espionage. Participants will also discuss building regional alliances to improve real-time intelligence sharing, coordinate incident response and, ideally, develop harmonized cybersecurity frameworks - ensuring that our defenses are as interconnected as the threats we face. |
| Brainstorm on Alternative Funding Models (part 1) | This is part 1 of a two part Circle series As our field faces a historic funding crisis, many of us are asking "what now?" We all are looking for alternative funding, but how do we organize for that? How do we prepare our organization to become more agile on fundraising? What options of alternative funding exist—from reimagined grantmaking models to untapped donors, ethical partnerships, and community-powered support. Together, we’ll surface bold ideas, share examples from adjacent movements, and identify who might be ready to fund this work—even if they haven’t yet. This Circle will help us expand our collective imagination and begin to chart a path toward financial resilience rooted in solidarity, innovation, and justice. |
| Digital Rights in Portugal: Where do We go from Here? | This Circle is a precious opportunity to touch base and network among all Portugal-based activists, share updates regarding our collective agendas, and start conversations about our priorities in the near future. |
| Digital Rights X Climate Justice: Meet Up! | Connect with participants working at the intersection of climate justice and digital rights. Participants will share updates on their work and lessons learned; celebrate wins, and explore ways to better collaborate across borders. Participants will also take stock of global developments, and chart steps forward. Anyone engaged in digital climate justice is welcomed—whether combating climate disinformation, advancing sustainable digital infrastructure, protecting climate defenders, or addressing migration challenges linked to climate change. |
| ED Meetup | If you are an Executive Directors managing an organization, this is a fantastic opportunity to foster meaningful connections with other EDs, share your concerns, and seek support. |
| Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Caucasus Meetup (EECC) Meetup | Connect with individuals actively working in the EECCA region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse EECCA projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the EECCA digital rights community. |
| Fighting Internet Censorship: Challenges and Needs | What challenges have you encountered in monitoring, reporting, or advocating against internet censorship? How can the internet measurement community better support your efforts? Join this Circle to share your experiences, explore common obstacles, and discuss practical needs to strengthen global monitoring and response to internet censorship. |
| Gathering the Gatherers | If you play a facilitator role in your community, this Circle is for you! This includes community organisers, trainers, facilitators, and people who are often asked to hold space for others to negotiate conflict. Come share your experience, discuss challenges, and explore ways to adapt to the ever-changing realities of our communities and movements......while finding meaningful ways to sustain and support each other. |
| Hong Kong Meetup | Connect with individuals actively working in Hong Kong. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse projects in Hong Kong, and gain valuable insights, This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the digital rights community in Hong Kong. |
| Imaginaries Futures (Part 1) | This is part 1 of a two part Circle series. Participants will explore how the current financial system shapes both possibilities and limitations for funding. Through guided collective inquiry and speculative ideation, participants will examine structural barriers, map dependencies, and reflect on the governance of financial flows. Rather than offering ready-made solutions, the Circle creates space for imagining new funding architectures - grounded in solidarity, care, and resistance t- could support more just and resilient futures. This is an exploratory phase for developing a shared language, identifying questions, and exploring potential directions for building alternative financial realities. |
| In the Face of Crises, Digital Care and Support for Sustainable Activism in Latin America | Diverse Latin America activists and defenders face multiple crises and threats today, many of which are facilitated by technology. In this CIrcle, participants will address: how are we responding, and addressing them with care? And what are the implications of our work? |
| Internet Measurement Wish List | If internet measurement projects like OONI, IODA, M-Lab, or Censored Planet could offer you anything, what would be on your wish list? What features, data, or tools would help you better monitor internet censorship? Join this interactive brainstorming Circle to share your ideas, needs, and feedback. |
| Journalism Meetup | Connect with other journalists and media professionals in the digital rights field. This is a fantastic opportunity to foster meaningful connections, share your concerns and seek support, and expand your professional network. |
| Latin America Meetup | Connect with individuals actively working in the Latin America region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse Latin American projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Latin America digital rights community. |
| Migration and Digital Rights Meetup | Meet others working on issues sitting at the intersection of migration and digital rights. Regardless of what region you work on or from, this meetup will help you meet folks that are working on migration issues, share support and wisdom, and solidify solidarity across borders |
| North America Meetup | Connect with individuals actively working in the North American region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse North American projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the North American digital rights community. |
| Policy Advocates Meetup | Connect with individuals working at the intersection of policy and digital rights. This event offers a unique opportunity to learn from fellow policy advocates from across the world, and learn about current policy initiatives related to the impact of technology on human rights. |
| Remote Team Cohesion Best Practices | Participants will surface challenges related to working in a remote team, and then share learnings and best tips to overcome those challenges. Collectively, participants will compile a list of best practices to share with each others and the broader field. |
| Researchers Meetup | Connect with fellow researchers investigating digital rights topics and subjects such as internet freedom, security and technology. Participants will share insights, discuss recent findings, and explore emerging trends in the field. Whether you're a seasoned researcher or new to the field, this meetup provides a supportive environment to enhance your work and impact. |
| Security Practioners Meetup | Meet security practioners from around the world - from cybersecurity professionals conducting audits to digital security trainers. Whether you’re looking to share your expertise, learn from others, or expand your professional network, this Circle is a great place to learn about new developments, and find opportunities for collaboration. |
| SWANA Meetup | Connect with individuals actively working in the SWANA region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse SWANA projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the SWANA digital rights community. |
| Tackling Misinformation Through Open Tools and Civic Literacy | Explore how open source tools can empower communities to combat misinformation, deepen media literacy, and foster civic collaboration. Together, participants will: Share open-source applications that identify message similarity, detect false content, and support real-time response coordination across regions; Analyze how media outlets frame information, and build practical skills in fact-checking and critical reading, with a focus on emerging platforms; Explore strategies for civic engagement using cooperative platforms that support collaborative image and text analysis, inviting participants to practice co-creating knowledge with strangers. This Circle is open to both beginners and advanced experts. |
| Technologist Meetup | Meet technologists from across the world who are working in digital rights, or in other public interest technology areas. Whether you’re looking to share your expertise, learn from others, or expand your professional network, this Circle is a great place to learn about new developments, and find opportunities for collaboration. |
| Update on Censorship Circumvention Methods at Tor | Tor Project will share updates on how their circumvention tools are performing and highlight the recent censorship trends they are seeing around the world, including in countries like China and Russia. This Circle is designed as a conversation with the community regarding these latest events and to discuss how we can work together to continue to fight censorship online |
| Western Europe Meetup | Connect with individuals actively working in the Western European region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn about different projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Western European digital rights community. |
| Words & Actions: Digital Rights Status in the WANA region | Participants from North Africa and West Asia (WANA) will share perspectives on the current state and challenges of digital rights in the region and collectively explore actions to address them. The output of this session can be used to guide funding strategies, prioritize advocacy efforts, and collaborate around new themes with different the organizations, alliances and networks working on digital rights scene in the region. Hosted by the members of the MENA Alliance for Digital Rights (MADR) |
Booth Descriptions
| Amnezia VPN | Amnezia VPN | Amnezia VPN is an open-source project that helps people bypass internet censorship and protect their privacy. Stop by to get an update on their tools and research into how censorship is evolving, especially in authoritarian contexts. while learning how they tracks and analyzes website blocks across different regions. Amnezia will also be creating an interactive space that connects art and technology. Stop by to Listen to a playlist of songs banned in Russia for political, queer, or cultural reasons; Browse books with real examples of censored or redacted content; Contribute your own stories of censorship in music, literature, media, or code from your country to build a shared archive of artistic and digital resistance. |
| Calyx Institute | Calyx Institute | Are you developing open source mobile tools and looking for partnership and collaboration opportunities? Does your community have any particular privacy and security needs when it comes to digital tools? Come meet the Calyx Institute! This year, they are also celebrating the new recipients of our Sepal Fund. Join Library Freedom Project, Red Abya Yala, and other Sepal Fund grantees to get to know the crucial community work they have been doing. In addition, if you have used mobile tools developed by Calyx, such as CalyxOS and Seedvault, or would like to know more about their tooling, they would love to hear your experience or suggestions! |
| Dash Chat: Resilient Messenger for Internet Shutdowns | Darksoil Studio | Past by this booth to test Dash Chat on Android and IOS - a FOSS, offline-first, end-to-end encrypted messaging app designed for use in adversarial and/or low-connectivity environments.. You can also test their latest prototype and help shape its development, signup for their pilot and program, and learn insights from their ongoing ongoing research with communities around the world. |
| Digital Safety Clinic | Access Now | Receive direct support from digital security practioners and get your concerns addressed and questions answered. This booth is coordinated by the Access Now and will be joined by other partner organizations and digital security helplines. |
| Experience it! New Ways to Teach PGP, Anti-Censorship and Shutdown Preparedness | Conexion Segura y Libre | Step into this interactive lab and explore creative tools for defending digital right Experience and collaborate on Conexion Segura and Libre's out-of-the box training tools and ati-censorship tools; Try their 3D-printed "toy" to teach the basics of PGP and what's the whole deal keys: the asymmetric lock box; Play a round a card game to teach the nuances of internet censorship; Take a look into their simulations for censorship and shutdown preparedness; And use their anti-censorship tool that uses VPNs but isn't really a VPN: Noticias Sin Filtro |
| Escuela Común + Red Abya Yala | Escuela Común + | Escuela Común (Common School) is a collective initiative focused on strengthening digital autonomy, privacy, and infrastructure in Latin American communities through open source tools, workshops and peer-to-peer support. They are supported by Red Abya Yala, a network that connects diverse organizations and networks to build sustainable, community-led digital infrastructure and resist surveillance, persecution, and extractivist threats. Stop by to learn about their programs! |
| Feminist Helplines Community Booth | Feminist Helplines Community | Learn about Navegando Libres and FemBloc's work on gender based violence facilitated by technology (GBVFT). Stop by and explore opportunities for collaboration and knowledge-exchange. They will also share knowledge on digital feminist forensic for feminist helpline via a knowledge sharing session. Stop by to share best tips and lessons learned. |
| Horizontal | Horizontal | Horizontal support activists, journalist and human right defenders with technology and trainings. Stop by their booth to see the demos of their two flagship products: a) - Tella (https://tella-app.org/): a free, open source tool to encrypt and hide files in your phone, and collect and share data even with limited or no internet connectivity or in the face of repression. b) Shira (https://shira.app/): a web app to help users develop the skills needed to identify and defeat phishing attacks on email and messaging apps.. They would also love to get your feedback and requests for their apps, and can share more deeply on how they support organizations and activists! |
| Human Constanta | Human Constanta | Human Constanta is a human rights organization, working in three main areas: protection of the rights of foreign citizens and stateless persons, promotion anti-discrimination, and digital freedoms and rights through advocacy, analytics, and education. Human Constanta has been on the frontline of mainstreaming and defending digital rights in Belarus since 2016, organizing Internet Governance Forum and Privacy Day in Belarus, gathering a community of digital rights enthusiasts, monitoring Internet shutdowns at the height of the 2020 protests, producing research on emerging digital rights and cybersecurity topics. |
| Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA) | IODA | The Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA) monitors and reports on internet outages worldwide. The team will showcase a live demo of the IODA dashboard and introduce new guides designed for less technical users. Participants will learn how and when to use IODA, what IODA Signalsare, and how their rapid response shutdown protocol works. |
| Leadership and Financial Resilience Coaching Support | Spring Strategies | Spring Strategies will be hosting a Spring CampFiRE mini-workshop—a facilitated space for participants to engage in dialogue about fundraising, burnout, and navigating leadership in times of uncertainty. For those wishing to go deeper, they are offering individual 45-minute leadership and financial resilience coaching sessions throughout the three days of the event, and can be booked online here: https://www.springstrategies.org/coaching-global-gathering-2025) or directly at the booth. Coaching sessions provide participants with the the space to pause, reflect, process ideas, address financial health questions, and/or explore leadership challenges, practices, and tools. |
| MaadiX | MaadiX | MaadiX is a privacy-oriented easy-to-use solution that puts users back in control of their data and communications without the need for technical expertise or large investments. It provides one-click installation and maintenance of free and open source online tools on own servers through an easy and intuitive graphical interface: Mastodon, PeerTube, Tor, OpenVPn, Postfix+Dovecot , Nextcloud, mailman3 , and many others |
| Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) | Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) | The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) builds free software tools that empower the public to measure and collect evidence of internet censorship. Today, thanks to its global community, OONI hosts the largest open dataset on internet censorship of its kind. Join this booth to learn about the project, ask questions, share feedback, and discover you can get involved in the global fight against internet censorship! |
| Open Data Editor - What did we learn when integrating the AI feature? | Open Knowledge Foundation | Open Knowledge Foundation has a developed a tool that allows non-technical users to detect errors in tables. The app has a local AI integration that has been implemented and designed with insights from their community. This is a great opportunity to meet their team, learn more about the tool, and ask all the questions you may have! They will also be sharing lessons learned when implementing local AI. |
| Palestine Booth | Solidarity Network of Palestinians and Allies | The US-Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and across Palestine is approaching its second year, and we are witnessing Western powers' unconditional support for it. This booth will provide space to hold conversations on how to understand the genocide; 77 years of ethnic cleansing and occupation; and how it intersects deeply with our spaces. Most importantly, how we as digital rights activists can and should shape our work to engage meaningfully in this topic. This space will also be used to honor the lives of Palestinian martyrs, and raise funds for trusted partners in Gaza. Additionally, Tatreez (embroidery) sessions will be hosted to inspire conversations about solidarity through collective weaving. This space will also attempt to intersect this cause with other contexts of digital military warfare, and through solidarity, imagine what resistance against tech-assisted imperialism can look like. |
| Qubes OS | Qubes OS | Qubes OS is a secure operating system for laptop and desktop computers, created with reasonable security in mind: provide a secure environment, but also allow users to use all the applications and tools they need in their lives and work. In this booth, I will be showcasing Qubes OS, providing a test laptop for people to try it out, and a place to discuss how Qubes OS can help with providing a resilient, secure digital environment. |
| ReCIPE for Digital Rights | Oxfam, ReCIPE Project | ReCIPE (ReCentering the Civic Internet through Partner Engagement) is a three-year, multi-country project led by Oxfam and co-funded by the EU to amplify the voices of Global South civil society organizations on digital rights. The project is being implemented in Bolivia, Cambodia, El Salvador, Kenya, Palestine, Senegal, Somalia, Tunisia, Uganda, and Vietnam. Visit their booth to learn about ongoing activities and research on threats facing vulnerable communities, and analysis of key digital rights laws and policies, including privacy and data protection frameworks. You can also view awareness-raising and capacity-building materials designed for diverse audiences, such as women, youth, platform workers, and journalists. |
| SFLC.in: Promoting Open Knowledge, Free Speech, Online Privacy, Innovation & Equality | SFLC.IN - Software Freedom Law Center | This booth is a space to explore and discuss the digital rights landscape in India, and is being lead by SFLC.in - a nonprofit that works at the intersection of tech, law, policy and FOSS, with a focus on advancing digital rights. Stop by to meet their team and discover potential new opportunities for collaboration or knowledge exchange! |
| A Conversation about Sudan | Global Gathering Attendee Coalition | The goal of this booth is to host a conversation about Sudan and how the digital rights community specially from the MENA region can support Sudanese activists and contribute to raise awareness about the war in Sudan. This is an invitation for Sudanese people to share their knowledge with the community and for the community to map how civil society can internationally and regionally support the Sudanese people. The booth will also collect donations for the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. |
| Digital Action | Global Coalition for Tech Justice | The Global Coalition for Tech Justice exists to create a world in which worldwide tech platforms and technologies serve the public good and uphold the dignity of all peoples. Come talk to us to find out more about our work, our previous campaign on the Megacycle of Elections across the globe and how you can be involved! |



