Job Fair 2024

Date: September 28, 2024

Time: 11:30 to 13:00

Location: The Job Fair is part of the 2024 Global Gathering Agenda

The Job Fair is a great place to check out organizations that are hiring now, or just wanting to meet talent. Not interested? Well, you can still bring your own lunch, or purchase a lunch at one of the many food vendors, or just network with folk!

Name of Organization	Booth Number	Description
APC	33	The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is a membership-based network of organisations and activists. It was founded in 1990 to empower individuals, organisations and social movements to use information and communications technologies (ICTs) to build strategic communities to contribute to equitable human development, social justice, participatory political processes and environmental sustainability.
Article19	32	ARTICLE 19 works for a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination. We do this by working on two interlocking freedoms: the Freedom to Speak, and the Freedom to Know. When either of these freedoms come under threat, ARTICLE 19 speaks with one voice.
The Calyx Institute	46	The Calyx Institute's mission is to educate the public about privacy in digital communications and to develop tools that anyone can use. One of our featured tools is CalyxOS, an Android mobile operating system that puts privacy and security into the hands of everyday users.
DRL Internet Freedom	31	We are the Internet Freedom Team at the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, and we are looking for a new contractor Program Officer. Talk to us to learn more!
Digital Rights Foundation	29	Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) strengthens protections for human rights defenders (HRDs), with a focus on women's rights, in digital spaces through policy advocacy & digital security awareness-raising. One of DRF's core focus is the protection of women from work and cyber-harassment that they have to deal with through out their lives, while also making them aware of their rights.
Digital Witness Lab	28	We build privacy-respecting tools to access hard-to-reach data and empower public-interest investigations. We work in close collaboration with journalists, researchers, and community partners to ensure the resources we create are contextualized and useful to their needs. We help draw attention to timely issues and the stories that really matter to our partners.
eQualitie	27	eQualitie creates decentralized internet services in support of a more equal and equitable network. Our solutions are open source, battle proven and developed in mind of our values. Every day, they serve million of people, enabling secure platform hosting, censorship resilient content delivery and surveillance free communications.
Gazzetta	49	Gazzetta is just starting out as an organization providing media strategy assistance to exile and underground media in restricted environments.
Great Fire	50	We are an anonymous organization based in China. We launched our first project in 2011 in an effort to help bring transparency to online censorship in China. Now we focus on helping Chinese to freely access information.
Guardian Project	47	Guardian Project creates easy to use secure apps, open-source software libraries, and customized solutions that can be used around the world by any person looking to protect their communications and personal data from unjust intrusion, interception and monitoring.
Gisa Group	51	Gisa Group is an Sudanese/International NGO registered in the US with offices in Sudan and Kenya and a 10-year track record running complex projects in difficult contexts with the world’s leading foundations and donor organizations. Our mission is to power communities of change in Sudan by building platforms, tools, and projects to: Inspire civic engagement; Promote justice and accountability; and Create and promote access to trusted information.
GlobaLeaks	52	GlobaLeaks is a project developing and promoting a free, open-source software enabling anyone to easily set up and maintain a secure whistleblowing platform.
Horizontal	53	Horizontal supports frontline defenders, activists and journalists through digital security and tool development. We are a remote, distributed team on 5 continents.
Jordan Open Source Association	54	The Jordan Open Source Association (JOSA) is a non-profit organization based in Amman, Jordan and founded in 2011. That seeks to spread the culture of open source, free knowledge and open government, in addition to preserving the digital rights of Jordanians. JOSA also cooperates with many organizations locally and internationally within the framework of development projects aimed at raising awareness among the MENA society about digital rights and digital security principles.
Key Watch Ghana	26	KEY WATCH GHANA is a non-governmental organization founded in 2015, in Ghana and duly registered and certified to operate as a non-profit organization by the Registrar General of Ghana on the 26th of July 2017. We are also Social Welfare and Non-Profit Organizations Association certified. We provides the services of socioeconomic empowerment, human rights education and advocacy, reproductive health, and sexual safety, with emphasis on Intersex, and gender-diverse persons.
Mshauri Initiative for Digital and Civic literacy	25	We promote Digital security to marginalized people (women, girls, LGBTQ+, and others) We promote accountability and transparency in our community by promoting access to information We train digital literacy.
Numun Fund	30	Numun Fund is the first dedicated fund for feminist tech in, and for the Larger World. Our aim is to seed and sustain feminist technology infrastructure for movement organising, and we understand digital technologies to be an important part of movement infrastructure. This fund will seed and resource a growing ecosystem of feminist engagement with technology in order to understand digital technologies to be an important part of movement infrastructure.
Open Briefing	55	Open Briefing builds resistance and resilience among the people and communities challenging power. Last year, our team provided over 4,600 hours of holistic security support to activists and organisations under threat of physical, digital, and psychological harm across 93 countries. We are a team of specialists of various backgrounds working together to provide responsive support, accompaniment, and other support and guidance to help people and communities take the right risks, well.
Operator Foundation	56	The Operator Foundation was founded in 2014 in Austin, Texas. Our purpose is to promote internet freedom, open communication, and global internet security through technology development, deployment, and education. We develop technologies to facilitate access to credible and relevant information and open communication around the world.
Safe Sisters	57	We are a community of activists, technologists and digital safety trainers. We are not a registered organisation but rather a fellowship program co-founded by a coalition of partners. The programming is adaptable and program activities are funded and run directly by organisatons.
The Tor Project	48	The Tor Project mission is to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies.
WHAT TO FIX	24	WHAT TO FIX is a global accelerator of evidence-based tech accountability advocacy, working to move the conversation beyond problems and onto actionable diagnosis and solutions. Our current work looks at the unregulated growth of social media monetization programs and platforms' role in incentivizing and subsidizing the global disinformation crisis.