September 10 2025 Agenda

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12:00 to 13:00

Lunch and Networking Hour

Check out the various food vendors and connect with participants in a beautiful setting..

	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 Villages You 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.
Circles, September 10
Location	13:30 - 14:30	15:00 - 16:00	16:30 - 17:30
Circle 1
Circle 2	Forensics for All. Democratizing Digital Forensics for Accountability in the Global Majority		Navigating Anonymity and Truth
Circle 3
Circle 4	How We Investigate: Uncovering Digital Surveillance	Building Environmental Justice with Community Tech: From Research to Collective Action
Circle 5	Digital Rights, Narrative Change and Reproductive Justice	Media vs. Censors - Sharing Expertise
Circle 6	Feminist Care Infrastructure: How Does It Look Like?
Villages, September 10
Location	13:30 - 14:30	15:00 - 16:00	16:30 - 17:30
Calyx Village (Booth 9)
Circumvention Tech Village (Booth 12)
APC Village (Booth 7)
Open Measurement Gathering (OMG) Village (Booth 17)	Unconference-Style Session TBD (Go to the OMG Village to suggest topics!)	Unconference-Style Session TBD (Go to the OMG Village to suggest topics!)	Unconference-Style Session TBD (Go to the OMG Village to suggest topics!)
Digital Rights Sustainability Village (Main Stage)	Numun Fund Session Part 2	Imaginaries Futures (Part 2)
Regional Topics A (Booth 21)	Digital security in LATAM for small organizations		How to Investigate Surveillance Technologies? Methods and Challenges from South America
Regional Topics B (Booth 22)
TBD (Booth 79)	The State of Digital Security Practitioners in Eastern Europe: Surviving the Funding Crisis as a Community
SWANA Cafe (Booth 81)	Threads of Solidarity: Connecting through Palestinian Tatreez	Regional Digital Rights Alliances - Lessons & Collaboration
Queer Rights Village (Booth 81)

	Booths You 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".
Booths, September 10
	13:00 - 15:00			15:30 - 17:30
Location	Name	Run by		Name	Run by
Booth 4a	No Mud No Lotus	Present Moment Enterprises
Booth 4b	Amnezia VPN	Amnezia VPN		Amnezia VPN	Amnezia VPN
(Queer Rights Village) Booth 5	LooM SWANA	LooM SWANA		Casa Trans Zuleymi: Tejiendo Redes, Construyendo Futuros	Casa Trans Zuleymi
Booth 6	Air – A New Private Messenger	Phoenix R&D		PiRogue Tool Suite	Defensive Lab Agency
(APC Village) Booth 7	APC Village	APC		APC Village	APC
Booth 8	Article 19 & Yubico	Article 19 & Yubico		Article 19 & Yubico	Article 19 & Yubico
(Calyx Village) Booth 9	Calyx institute	Calyx institute		Calyx institute	Calyx institute
Booth 10	OnionShare	OnionShare		Bitpart: A Secure Automated Messenger	Throneless Tech
Booth 11	ZoqueLabs	ZoqueLabs
(Circumvention Technology Village) Booth 12	Tor Project & Guardian Project	Tor Project & Guardian Project		Tor Project & Guardian Project	Tor Project & Guardian Project
Booth 13	Greenhost	Greenhost		TIHOMA	TIHOMA
Booth 14	Digital Defense Fund	Digital Defense Fund		Digital Defense Fund	Digital Defense Fund
Booth 15	Fight For the Future	Fight For the Future
Booth 16	Quad9	Quad9		DisCO.coop	DisCO.coop
(Open Measurement Gathering (OMG) Village) Booth 17	Test Lists Booth	Netalitica		Project Ainita CTI Platform Demo	Project Ainita
Booth 18	Trusting Media In A World of AI	Proofmode
Booth 19	The Collective Power Playbook	FabRiders
(Regional Conversations A) Booth 21	Urgent Action Fund Latin America and the Caribbean	Urgent Action Fund Latin America and the Caribbean		Fear on the Net: how the Venezuelan Internet Broke after the Elections.	VE sin Filtro / Conexion Segura y Libre
(Regional Conversations B) Booth 22	EngageMedia	EngageMedia		Tech Global Institute's convening on Labour Justice in Tech Supply Chains	Tech Global Institute
Booth 78	Quick RESIDENT: A New-Old Strong Mixed Format of Digital Security Assistance to CSOs	RESIDENT.NGO		Global Gathering Game Club	Global Gathering Game Club
(TBD Village) Booth 79
Booth 80	Social Media Platforms From The Margins - a Reimagination	Point of View		Human in the Loop: Exploring Gen AI Futures in the Global South	Digital Futures Lab
(SWANA Village) Booth 81
Booth 82	Palestine Booth	Solidarity Network of Palestinians and Allies		Palestine Booth	Solidarity Network of Palestinians and Allies

	Global Gathering After Hours
18:00 - 21:00	Closing Remarks, Music, and Socializing

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Circle Descriptions

Circle Title	Circle Description
Building Environmental Justice with Community Tech: From Research to Collective Action	Participants will build on findings from autonomous technological infrastructures and environmental sustainability participatory research, and discuss next steps in building alliances between groups. This includes both environmental justice and digital rights movements. Additionally, conversations will focus on identifying collective strategies to transform collected knowledge into concrete actions. The end result of the Circle is the start of a collaborative network that centers environmental justice in community technological infrastructures.
Digital Rights, Narrative Change and Reproductive Justice	Join this mutual learning space and collaborative conversation to discuss how to defend abortion rights in the face of a changing digital world. Together, participants will share lived experiences, spotlight grassroots resistance, and explore emerging strategies. Participants will also explore tools, from secure communication strategies to open-source tools and cross-platform advocacy. Additionally, time will be provided for participants to seek guidance on problems they may be facing.
Feminist Care Infrastructure: How Does It Look Like?	Despite care being central to our values, we continue to struggle with its practical application.This Circle invites us to critically unpack our understandings and practices of care-especially in times of global crisis as we are going through it right now-and to co-create shared frameworks that embed care into the heart of our communities, organizations, and collectives. Together, we will explore how to formalize care without stripping it of its relational and context-specific nature.
Forensics for all. Democratizing digital forensics for accountability in the Global Majority through collective action.	Consent-based digital forensics are the foundation of multiple efforts that seek accountability for the targeted digital surveillance civil society faces across the Global Majority. When digital forensics is combined with incident response procedures, there is a greater chance of understanding threats and preventing harm. In this Circle, Global Majority labs and their partners will facilitate a discussion around the challenges and resources needed to strengthen forensic capacities and skills of the South. Participants will also map pathways to improve a collaborative flagship initiative developed by multiple threats labs and organizations, which serves as a documentation repository to boost consented forensics on civil society (check it out here: forensics.socialtic.org). All are invited including practitioners, forensic experts, members of helplines, threat labs, digital safety trainers.
How We Investigate: Uncovering Digital Surveillance	This Circle brings together journalists and civil society researchers from around the world who investigate the use, procurement of digital surveillance. Participants can connect, share their work, and exchange investigative tactics and strategies that have worked for them. Given the public nature of this event, we encourage participants to share only what they feel comfortable disclosing with others in the Circle.
Imaginaries Futures (Part 2)	This is part 2 of a 2 part 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.
Threads of Solidarity: Connecting through Palestinian Tatreez	Get a hands-on training to begin stitching one simple Palestinian tatreez (embroidery) motif.Through a meditative embroidery exercise, participants will hear few powerful stories of stitched encryption, the land, and resistance. There are only enough supplies for approximately 20 people, but all are welcome to join and listen in to the storytelling.
Media vs. Censors - Sharing Expertise	This Circle focuses on facilitating exchange among media and publishers of all sizes who are trying to bring their content to autocracies, either in their own country from exile, or on the international stage. Questions covered include: What impact do these conditions have on editorial work?; What do shutdowns mean for distribution, and how do communicators and recipients deal with them?; What learnings from the past can help our future goals?
Navigating Anonymity and Truth	Anonymity is often a methodology used in creative outputs, or as a safety measure that allows expression while preventing detection and outing. Participants will share how they use anonymity in their work; what makes particular "anonymous" content more trustworthy; and what are its potential and limits in the current context of increased surveillance, disinformation, automation and militarization. Participants will also discuss anonymity impacts our relationship with truth and political organizing.
Numun Fund Session Part 2
Regional Digital Rights Alliances - Lessons & Collaboration	This Circle is an invitation for thinkers and participants from across the globe to discuss lessons learnt building alliances, and create a space of mutual learning around this topic. Every region has been facing digital rights challenges and creating it's own impact stories, building collectives and alliances to raise awareness and advocate for citizen's digital rights. During the discussion participants will map the main digital trends and challenges they are facing in their respective regions. The goal of the Circle is to create a network of connected defenders that can continue to share communications with each other around the collective issues they are experiencing.
The State of Digital Security Practitioners in Eastern Europe: Surviving the Funding Crisis as a Community	According to a March 2025 assessment across six EU Eastern Partnership countries, half of surveyed digital security practitioners reported that their organizations or projects had lost more than 75% of resources due to USG funding cuts. Sixty percent said they expected to continue their work for no more than six months, with 40% limited to just three months of operations. These findings—due to be updated in August—illustrate the severity of the funding crisis. This Circle will bring together participants from Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus to share how the crisis is affecting their communities, and to explore strategies and tactics for sustaining critical support to at-risk civil society in the region. Participants will also discuss recommendations for funders and partners, as well as the overall state of the digital security sector.
Digital security in LATAM for Small Organizations	Many of the methodologies, risk mapping and approaches to digital security - even from civil society (such as SAFETAG) - are adapted and work for medium and large organizations. Participants will explore the risks and digital protection strategies that have been implemented in Colombia, Costa Rica or other Latin American countries for small organizations and isolated individuals.
How to Investigate Surveillance Technologies? Methods and Challenges from South America	Drawing on the results of a long-term investigation in South America on surveillance technologies, participants will discuss research strategies and methods used by civil society organizations and researchers to expose a market that is both vast and opaque. The goal of this Circle is to share concrete experiences that can help build more collaborative, effective approaches. Some tactics that will be covered include: tracing supply chains to identify manufacturers and distributors; searching public procurement platforms for contracting agreements; verifying and analyzing leaked documents; filing freedom of information requests; consulting international trade databases; and applying more technical tactics, including forensic analysis of devices, software security assessments, tracking malicious infrastructure, and monitoring network traffic for suspicious indicators.

Booth & Village Descriptions

Village	Run by	Village Description
Regional Conversations A
Regional Conversations B
Open Measurement Gathering (OMG) Village	Open Measurement Group (OMG)
Circumvention Technology Village	Tor Project & Guardian Project
SWANA Village
APC Village	APC
Calyx Village	Calyx Institute
Queer Rights Village	Global Gathering Attendee Coalition	The Queer Rights booth will provide space for LGBGTQI+ attendees to this year’s Global Gathering. We have a welcome circle on day 2, and space for more circles on Day 3- tell us your ideas! This space is an intersectional queer feminist space that embraces emotion and embodiment and is meant to be explicitly decolonial, antiracist, and transfeminist. We encourage new people to stop by, and allies with a lot of experience in digital rights to make themselves available to our new community members.
Digital Crossroads: EU Rules, Regional Realities	Digital Security Lab Ukraine

Booth	Run by	Booth Description
Air – A New Private Messenger	Phoenix R&D	Phoenix RD is building a secure messenger with a low metadata footprint, and are close to releasing their beta version. Pass by their booth to get access to the beta version of "Air", and find out what they have been working on since the last GG. A great team to get answers to your questions regarding secure messenger development.
Article 19 & Yubico
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.
Bitpart: A Secure Automated Messenger	Throneless Tech	Bitpart is an open-source, secure, automated messaging tool that works over Signal. Explore 5 use cases for Bitpart, and help the team brainstorm on the future direction of the tool. Stop by to receive your invite code which will allow you to create your own account on their hosted platform.
Casa Trans Zuleymi: Tejiendo Redes, Construyendo Futuros	Casa Trans Zuleymi	Conozca la Casa Trans Zuleymi en este dinámico stand y conozca su resiliencia, comunidad y trabajo. Los participantes aprenderán sobre las experiencias de las trabajadoras sexuales trans y la falta de leyes que reconozcan la identidad de género en Perú
Fight For the Future	Fight For the Future	Fight for the Future (Fight) is behind some of the largest online protests in history, channeling internet outrage into political power for public interest victories, and fighting for a future where technology liberates, not oppresses. Pass by the booth to hear updates on their current campaigns, learn about their protections tools, including their de-googling” experiments and new hosting service for open-source tools. They are also eager to hear from Global Majority trans communities, and explore opportunities for solidarity and cross-regional collaboration. Additionally, they will have zines, stickers, and conversation!
DisCO.coop	DisCO.coop	DisCO is a radical, broadly applicable, and fun way to create inclusive economic democracy through socially and ecologically restorative work done by communities built on trust and care. Their mission is to completely reconceptualize the future of work towards social and environmental ends, while also factoring in reproductive work, rest and leisure. Swing by the DisCO booth, meet the team and find out what Anti-Capitalist, Decolonial, and Intersectional Feminist Technologies look like, and find out how your organization can become a DisCO and build counterpower for the 21st century and beyond!
EngageMedia	EngageMedia	EngageMedia promotes and advocates for digital rights, open and secure technology, and social issue documentary across the Asia-Pacific. They do this through video, technology, knowledge, and networks. Stop by their booth to learn about their current initiatives, including The Human Rights Technology Initiative, a program that offers training, practical tools, and community-driven strategies to equip activists and civil society organizations to navigate digital threats. .
Fear on the Net: How the Venezuelan Internet Broke After the Elections.	VE sin Filtro / Conexion Segura y Libre	"The Networks of Control report and Beyond" documents the most dramatic escalation in digital repression in Latin America: Venezuela. The team will share details and research that couldn't be shared publicly, and how they collected this evidence - -from real-time network tests to OSINT. Space will be created to discuss tools, tactics, and what comes next. The post-election crisis in Venezuela has marked a breaking point, with digital repression becoming the norm: blocking apps like Signal, X, TikTok, YouTube (and now targeting WhatsApp), silencing transparency efforts, persecuting activists, excluding opposition candidates, and manipulating voting data. Case studies will reveal how social media posts led to arrests, and how tactics such as drones, doxxing, viralized arrests, and device searches were used to intimidate protesters and civil society.
Global Gathering Game Club	Global Gathering Game Club	Come by this "Game Club" to play test and have your games play tested as well! This is the corner for serious lovers of games.
Greenhost	Greenhost	Greenhost provides services to many Global Gathering participants! Not only as a webhosting, e-mail and VPS provider, but also as the platform used by a lot of our community's VPN providers. Swing by to tap their expertise on self-hosting of diverse software packages, like alternatives to Google Suite or Office 365. Greenhost does this with open source applications like Nextcloud, OnlyOffice or Zullip. Also learn about Stackspin, which they developed, to make managing applications like this easier. Come by see a demo, or seek advice.
Human in the Loop: Exploring Gen AI Futures in the Global South	Digital Futures Lab	Learn about Human in the Loop' project, which harnesses foresight methods and creative storytelling to portray nuanced narratives around the unintended impacts of Gen AI. Participants have the opportunity to engage in an interactive futuring activity about the technological futures we deserve!
LooM SWANA	LooM SWANA	LooM SWANA is a regional LGBTIQ+ organization that aims to connect and intersect communities and human rights, internet freedom, digital rights, and holistic security themes to weave better futures for queer and trans people in South West Asia and North Africa "SWANA" region. This is more than an organization; it is a feminist intersectional dedication to creating better, just, and safe futures for LGBTIQ+ people throughout the region.
No Mud No Lotus	Present Moment Enterprises	Take a moment to breathe amid the busy-ness of the Gathering and the overwhelm of tech and the times we are living in. Present Moment's No Mud No Lotus booth offers guided meditation, breathing practice, listening circles, and periods of silence to help listen, speak, and act mindfully amid all the demands and offerings of the event. Move through the mud to find the lotus of your interconnectedness with the beauty of our world, the generosity of our fellow humans, the grief and the joy that we share in this moment.
OnionShare	OnionShare	OnionShare is an open-source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network. Come by for a demo on how to share files across the Tor network, and a workshop on how to get started contributing to the project. OnionShare is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and also on Android and iOS for mobile.
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.
PiRogue Tool Suite	Defensive Lab Agency	Come by to demo the PiRogue Tool Suite project, which includes the PiRogue and Colander. These tools allow for the analysis of network traffic, that you can do via your mobile phone. The main PTS developer, along with an expert in information security, will be there to explain how it works and answer technical questions.
Project Ainita CTI Platform Demo	Project Ainita	Project Ainita's Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) portal aims to be a one stop shop for latest intel, live Internet measurements and contextual analysis for those needing current and deep understanding of a country's Internet status. The team will be providing a live demo of the CTI portal as well as Internet maps of a few countries. They intend on being fully available for Q&A and hope to foster rich brainstorming discussions of scaling CTI in other needed contexts.
Quad9	Quad9	Quad9 info booth is a great way to learn more about using the DNS to block malicious events, for researchers in particular as well as other security and privacy DNS interested people. They will be demoing the Quad9 Event Dashboard (QED), localisation of Quad9 services and how to start using recursive DNS at no cost with very little hassle.
Quick RESIDENT: Our New-old Strong Mixed Format of Digital Security Assistance to CSOs	RESIDENT.NGO	Please arrive at 13:00 to take full advantage of the Quick RESIDENT overview and discussion.The RESIDENT team provides digital security support to CSOs and independent media, constantly adapting formats to meet real needs. From evolving audits and long-term support for high-risk groups to rapid response, educational activities, and awareness events. Stop by their booth to learn about “Quick RESIDENT” - an intensive engagement (“raid”) combining: 1) a rapid digital security assessment (~10% of the time), 2) immediate implementation of selected security measures (~90% of the time—configuring Google Workspaces, accounts, messengers, laptops, smartphones, etc.), and sometimes an educational activity. They also want to hear from participants on what t formats of core digisec assistance are being used in different regions, and how they are evolving.
Social Media Platforms From The Margins - a Reimagination	Point of View	Point of View's campaign on Platform Accountability holds big tech responsible for digital harms, by creating a reimagined vision of social media from the perspective of marginalized communities - among the most active users, but rarely seen as a core demographic. Pass by the booth to see their showcase of an alternative platform, imagined across both online and offline spaces, rooted in feminist principles of autonomy, agency, and choice. Most importantly, centering the needs, voices, and imaginations of those often pushed to the margins of digital design.
Tech Global Institute's convening on Labour Justice in Tech Supply Chains	Tech Global Institute	In early August 2025, TGI will publish the first of its three-part investigative research paper series on labour justice issues in global tech supply chains, pointedly in the content moderation and data annotation industries in Asia. The first paper not only outlines rights harms, but also explores socioeconomic enablers in Asia that make these markets fertile grounds for outsourced digital labour, and how this invisible labourforce, through multiple grassroots movements in the region, is fighting for better digital futures not only for themselves but for us all.
Test Lists Booth	Netalitica	Netalitica Booth will introduce you to the "Test Lists Project". They hire local researchers to update the URL test lists (aka Citizen Lab lists) of multiple countries, which are then used by network probes (e.g. OONI Probe) to uncover Internet censorship. Come to their booth to learn how to update the test list of your country, see the project's results, and check-out their vacant research positions!
The Collective Power Playbook	FabRiders	The Collective Power Playbook is a resource and a diverse network of people who convene with the intent of breaking down knowledge hierarchies and building solidarity. This playbook will help you build your facilitation skills by providing exercises you can do with groups and teams, and provide you with methodologies and processes for convening effectively. Stop by our booth and strengthen your ability to build collective power!
TIHOMA	TIHOMA	TIHOMA is a Greece-based non-profit social media platform focused on promoting trustworthy information, combating disinformation, and fostering civic engagement. Its currently in a closed pilot phase, but the team invites you to visit the booth to learn more, share insights, and sign up to have a first-hand experience of the application.
Trusting Media In A World of AI	Proofmode	As AI and reality converge, Proofmode offers tools to help verify the truth. Stop by to learn more-or join the fun with our scavenger hunt. Prizes for winners!
Urgent Action Fund Latin America and the Caribbean	Urgent Action Fund Latin America and the Caribbean	Learn more about Urgent Action Fund Latin America and the Caribbean, a regional feminist fund which contributes to the sustainability and strengthening of activists and their movements, offering quick and agile support in situations of risk and opportunity They support the resistances, struggles and demands of the defenders in the transformation of injustice and inequality systems, putting feminist integral protection and care in the center. They understand that in order to carry out our work, it is vital to think about feminist digital infrastructures from the South that are not privative and that allow us to put care at the center of technologies.
ZoqueLabs	ZoqueLabs	From Android exploits to civil society defense - swing by and let's talk about defense. ZoqueLabs is a digital security lab researching, building, and sharing defenses for social movements and communities in resistance.