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The Community Series Review our new Community Series, where you will find stories of the people and projects behind the digital Rights community. Each dispatch features interviews with inspiring individuals and highlights innovative projects within the field!

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Name of Organization	Booth Number	Description
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gazzetta	49	Gazzetta is just starting out as an organization providing media strategy assistance to exile and underground media in restricted environments.
GreatFire	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.
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.
Border Center for Journalists and Bloggers	54	The Border Center for Journalists and Bloggers (BCJB) promotes transparency, accountability, human rights and freedom of expression by empowering journalists through training, mentoring and the adoption of digital technologies.
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.

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May 15 at 13:00 UTC / 9:00 EDT: AMA on How to Submit a Proposal for GG 2024 Join this chat based Q&A session where we will answer all your questions regarding This year’s themes The difference between a Booth and Circle What makes a good proposal Location and time will also be provided soon.

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Welcome! This wiki contains community tools designed to help bring together and support digital rights defenders from around the world.

caption	Upcoming Virtual Events Our Calendar of Events has a complete list of upcoming virtual events being hosted by the IFF. Every day Community Checkin at 10am est! Every Thursday Glitter Meetup at 9am EST! Both happening on IFF's Mattermost. Special workshops being planned! See full list of events..	caption
caption	Analog Knowledge: Community Notes Can't attend any of our virtual events? Don't worry we keep notes from our weekly gatherings here. This includes everything from current updates shared by community members, to interviews with community experts. Make it a habit to read the notes every week to stay abreast
caption	Job Board Whether you are looking for job or candidate, we can help you out! Check out our amazing Job Board! We have jobs from all over the world! And our community are some of the best, most multi-talented people out there!	caption
caption	Fundraising Opportunities Find amazing awards, fellowships and funds on our Fundraising Opportunities page or post yours! Besides the open calls, we are gathering a list of organizations that announce different opportunities throughout the year.	caption
caption	Reports and Articles These Reports and Articles were created synthesizing information collected during both Glitter Meetups and CKS workshops, and showcase general consensus in a specific IFF community.	caption

Side Menus Notes

What are CKS Workshops? Upcoming Workshops Notes from Past Events

Workshop: Identity 2.0: Exploring Digital Identities Through Art

Who:Arda and Savena, Identity 2.0

Date:Wednesday, August 19th

Time:1:00pm EST / 5:00pm UTC+0 (Other times below)

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Artists and techies aren't worlds apart. Both are trying to shape the future using the tools they have to hand. Creators of Identity 2.0, an art project which empowers people to explore their digital identity, will be joining us to share their story of how they started, what they've discovered and their artistic process. Using exhibitions, videos and memes, the artists are opening up the conversation about the data we give away to exist online.

Community Notes

Glitter Meetup Notes		Community Knowledge Share Notes
Glitter Meetups are weekly town halls where digital rights defenders from all over the world connect, share updates in their regions or projects, ask questions and seek advice.		CKS workshops are lead by community leaders, and cover an area of topics. They are usually capped at 25 people, and run from 1-2 hours.

Reports & Articles		Villages & Special Events Notes		Community Needs
Read articles and reports that synthesize feedback and information shared by the community on a variety of topics.		Find all the knowledge and resources shared during villages and special events with the IF Community.		A summary of the Digital Rights Defenders needs tackled during different IFF gatherings.

Community Notes

	Glitter Meetups serve as weekly town halls where individuals can share updates in their regions or projects, ask questions or seek advice and support, share their opinion, and create collaborations with digital rights defenders from all other the world.
	CKS workshops are lead by community leaders, and cover an area of topics. They are usually capped at 25 people, and run from 1-2 hours.
	Read articles and reports that synthesize feedback and information shared by the community on a variety of topics.
	Find all the knowledge and resources shared during villages and special events with the IF Community.
	A summary of the Digital Rights Defenders needs tackled during different IFF gatherings.