Global Gathering Agenda 2024
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Instructions for Scheduling Self-Organized Sessions During the Global Gathering
To organize a self-organized while at the Global Gathering, please follow the instructions found here.
Note: This schedule will be updated regularly, please check every morning and throughout the day, as more self-organized events will be added.
Friday, September 27th
Circles and Evening Activities
All descriptions are found here Circle Descriptions.
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Project Booths
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| 69 | Glitter Corner - Add some glitter to your life! | Glitter Corner - Add some glitter to your life! |
| 70 | Swag Corner - Leave your stickers and swag for participants here! | Swag Corner - Leave your stickers and swag for participants here! |
We want to thank the following partners and sponsors who have already confirmed their support for 2024! More coming!
Equity Fund Sponsors
Circle Descriptions
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| Africa Meetup | |
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| APC | |
| Butter Box in Latin American Indigenous languages | In this circle, we will share our lessons and learnings from the process of localizing Butter Box in Latin American indigenous languages, the impacts obtained, and the importance of localizing circumvention tools in Latin American indigenous communities. |
| ButterBox-life without the internet made smoother | This past year we deployed the ButterBox ecosystem in various regions around the globe. The ButterBox is a hotspot & ecosystem of curated apps, encrypted chat and the ability to share resources via a USB. This circle will focus on hearing from the field agents who implemented the box in various use cases (for digital security trainings, within an apartment building for sharing entertainment, with indigenous offline communities, to prepare for internet shutdowns). We will also provide time to brainstorm the future of Butter with attendees. |
| Building a digital rights movement among the Francophone Community | During our very first online meetings, our francophone Team Community identified the need to better coordinate our efforts across French-speaking countries in Africa and the Middle East to identify patterns of digital threats. While many of us will meet in person for the first time at the Global Gathering, our goal with this Circle is to build community-driven knowledge and strategize advocacy campaigns within the French-speaking digital rights community. |
| Building a new privacy-preserving and decentralized messenger | We’re building a new generation of open-source messenger combining privacy, security, and decentralization. This is based on the Messaging Layer Security protocol and a tech stack we have been developing. We want to discuss with you what the future of secure messaging might look like and what your needs are for messaging applications. |
| Calyx Institute | CiviCERT is a network of Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs), Rapid Response teams, and independent Internet Content and Service Providers who help civil society prevent and address digital security issues. This private session will allow CiviCERT members to meet in person, discuss network issues and develop opportunities for further in-network collaboration. |
| Challenges in Data-Driven Journalism | Engage in a collaborative session that delves into the challenges and opportunities in data-driven journalism. Share experiences, tools, and techniques that aid journalists in uncovering and narrating impactful stories through data. |
| Co-leadership for sustainable organizations | Co-leadership is an innovative model to enable sustainability, allowing for alternatives to single-leadership, distributing power and decision making within organizations. Through the approach we’ve developed at The Engine Room, we’ve found that it can center trust, mutual care, and collaboration, while uplifting the differences in lived experiences, which can be critical to fostering organizational resilience and wellbeing. We look forward to sharing our experience, and hear from participants reflecting on their journey towards co-leadership models - even if this journey hasn't started yet. We expect to explore together how to build trust, care and collaboration and how a model like this one, can impact equity, collaboration, wellbeing, funder relations, remote work, decision making and strategy setting. We will also look to make space to surface skills, knowledge, practices to be cultivated, and learn together as a community on how to support each other through this path. |
| Community Networks Circle | Digital Identity systems are a global issue that affects many countries around the world. Because of the multilateral nature of these systems being deployed often by US and European companies in other world regions, the worldbank pushing for their adoption and the EU being on track to rolling out a fully harmonised system, it's urgent activists coordinate. This session is for sharing experiences with digital identity systems in your country, working towards holding actors accountable and establishing a goal for our community in terms of risk and safeguards. |
| CTRL + ALT + DEL: Learnings on movement building from the Digital Rights Asia-Pacific Assemblies | What comes next after two Digital Rights Asia-Pacific (DRAPAC) Assemblies in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and Taipei, Taiwan? This Circle is open to anyone who wants to discuss how the digital rights movement in the Asia-Pacific can continue to. Empower peoples across Asia-Pacific to regain control of our civic spaces, fundamental rights, social platforms, and digital technology from the dominance of big tech and interference by the state. Platform innovative alternatives in approaching and strategizing human rights advocacy in Asia-Pacific by centering local grassroots communities and strengthening networks across borders. Shift our thinking and culture towards more open, inclusive, and participatory decision-making processes and governance structures within the regional digital rights movements. |
| Digital Security Trainers Meetup | |
| Disinfo f*ck up - Open Mic session | In 2021, my team and I collaborated with a range of national and international media to expose a harmful propagandist responsible for hundreds of arrests in Myanmar. Did he lose sleep over the reporting? Not exactly. He embraced the notoriety and, if anything, only became worse. His goal was to be known and feared and we had just fed right into his KPIs. Does this sound familiar? Do you have your own stories of disinformation interventions gone wrong? Come swap war stories and talk through the unique ways that efforts to name, shame, debunk, or otherwise undermine disinformation actors can at times backfire. |
| Equity challenges in the digital rights defenders ecosystem | The digital rights defenders ecosystem is facing a number of equity challenges. From disparities in access to resources to discrimination and harassment - the impact isn't uniform; voices go unheard, experiences vary, and representation isn't equal. As we defend the rising number of threats facing our diverse digital landscape, let’s work to make sure that everyone is included in the process of creating inclusive change. |
| Eastern Europe Meetup | |
| Experience of censored users | Members of Tor's Anti-Censorship team will be hosting a circle for users to come and share their experience using our circumvention tools so we can learn what is working and how to improve what is not working. |
| Feminist Tech Play Session: Approaches & Tools in Building Decentralised Community Platforms | What have been your experiences in building and hosting platforms for community building and organising? There is a plethora of tools and options, e.g. ActivityPub, Matrix, XMTP, Discourse, Scuttlebutt, good ol' mailing list, but they all come with their in/conveniences and affordances. Come share your experiences, tools, approaches and dreams in building decentralised community platforms! |
| From Rapid Response to Sustainable Protection: Responding to Digital Threats Through Funding | The increasingly hostile scenario of digital threats and attacks on human rights defenders makes the existence of rapid response mechanisms and long-term digital security capacity-building core resources for civil society and grassroots organisations. Join us to learn how to access digital protection funds that respond to your needs. |
| Funders Meetup (note this is for funders only) | This meetup is a private meeting, only for funders. Lead by folks from Numun Fund and Prospera,its a space for funders to connect and strategize around current problems. |
| Hacktivism is not a Crime | We will meet to talk about legal, positive, and progressive approaches to using technology for liberation instead of technology enslaving and oppressing. Hosted by Cryptoharlem this is an open conversation on what kinds of organizations have, do, and can exist. Hoodies up, keyboards down, hack(tivist) the planet! |
| Harassment reporting: Identifying opportunities for more effective collective power"" | Reports from PEN America, Internews, and others have recently outlined the difficulties our communities face when we report harassment to social media platforms. In this collaborative workshop, we will work to identify ""pain points"" in the harassment reporting process that we may be able to address collectively. We will go through a broad overview of the PEN and Internews reports. Then we will go through a ""map"" of all stakeholders in the harassment reporting process, starting with the moment someone gets harassed, continuing through helplines and social media reporting channels, and tracing these through to legal cases, technical analyses and reports that our community develops. We will specifically focus on how to work together to identify patterns in attacks, and other aspects that are making reporting difficult. As part of her work as Dan Kaminsky Fellow at HUMAN Security, Gus Andrews has been on a ""listening tour"" of the digital human rights community, recording difficulties in our process of helping those under attack online. |
| How to contribute to the Tor project | Tor's welcoming circle! Come meet Tor people and learn more about the project and how you can contribute to it. |
| Intro to a network disruption enumeration system (WIP) | An exploration of a censorship and network disruption enumeration system. The objective of this initiative is to unite individuals such as Internet censorship researchers, network engineers, policy regulators, practitioners, activists, netizens, and other stakeholders. If you would like to help or get involved, join us to learn more. |
| Invite-Only Meetups and Discussions: | Invite-only meetup with local Wikimedia gender organizers. Wikimedia Foundation will be meeting with local gender organizers in the Wikimedia movement to learn more about their work and challenges. |
| IT Service Providers for Nonprofits & Human Rights Organizations | A meet-up for anyone who provides IT services to nonprofits/human rights organizations to discuss best practices! Please join if you provide IT services including helpdesk services; IT onboarding/offboarding; equipment procurement and repair; managed cybersecurity; or any other IT services. |
| Join us for CyberSim! | Interested in games, experiential learning, and new approaches to digital security training? Join us for a game of CyberSim - a hands-on, in-person role-playing game designed to simulate common digital risks. Stop by NDI's booth at the Feira or reach out to us directly to secure your spot in one of our interactive demos!
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| Keep calm and put it on the blockchain? Decentralized storage tradeoffs for radical archiving | This session explores issues around decentralization as a solution for the mobile storing of sensitive data. We wish to briefly map the landscape of Web3 storage technologies and then open a discussion around the affordances and threats of various decentralized storage technologies. How might the application of decentralized storage technologies be advantageous or harmful to users and communities working towards human rights defense? |
| Latin America Meetup | |
| Let's Stop Online Image Abuse - Join Us! | Do you have experience working with online image abuse cases? Do you have relevant questions or concerns that we need to consider? We welcome your input and feedback, and would be honored to discuss possible collaborations and partnerships. |
| Lingua Café Chats: digital rights impressions on tech and language inclusion | What is a language inclusive world? How can digital technologies materialise it? What is the role of the digital rights community? In this workshop participants will share their experiences, projects and ideas around language inclusion and the digital rights community. Conversations would include topics such as linguistic diversity and digital platforms, automation and the role of translation communities, and language barriers for digital rights communities. |
| Mapping out collaboration and info sharing for anti-censorship work. | Effective work against censorship and disinformation requires the collaboration of many different parties, with some working closely together, while others are only loosely involved. The Internet Freedom community is ripe for more structured and formalized approaches to sharing data, developing countermeasures, and tracking how the adversaries' activities are organized. We will discuss the feasibility and the create a roadmap for establishing an anti-censorship and anti-disinformation Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) ecosystem. |
| Media Security Meetup | A meetup of people that work in Media Security. Do you work as a safety and security person at a media organization? Want to share tips and tricks with other media security folks? Network! |
| Media Security Meetup for Journalist. | A meetup of people for journalist to do Q&A with various media security professionals. |
| MENA Meetup | |
| North America Meetup | |
| NoScript conversation | NoScript is a critical piece of privacy online that ever user interacts with. At this circle the creator of NoScript will be sharing information about the project's status and future plans. We would like to invite you to join the conversation to share your feedback or ask questions about NoScript and its integration in the Tor Browser. |
| Outline VPN Meetup | Come meet the team behind Outline - a free and open-source tool that deploys Shadowsocks servers on multiple cloud service providers. Come meet the team behind the tool, and ask any questions you may have, including how to get involved, and what you would like to see future developments. The software suite also includes client software for multiple platforms. Outline is developed by Jigsaw, a technology incubator created by Google. Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used in China to circumvent Internet censorship. |
| Policy Meetup | |
| Pilates for Physical, Emotional and Digital Resilience | Pilates is a popular practice to strengthen our bodies' core muscles for improved flexibility, full-body coordination and strength. A trauma-informed approach to Pilates employs a holistic lens and a flexible teaching framework to create space for individual and group healing, address the physical manifestations of trauma, and build physical and emotional resilience. After more than 10 years working to combat online gender-based violence, burned out, and unable to manage the personal impact of work in this fraught field, Jen turned to Pilates to build physical strength, and found a community that helped bolster her physical and emotional well-being. She's thrilled to share this resource with Feira participants as a way of contributing to and building our community, and to add to our shared toolkit for self and community care. The sessions are open to participants of all fitness levels. Exercises will be done standing, and on floor mats, and require a moderate level of mobility. Pilates is not safe for anyone with advanced Osteoporosis, or who has recently (less than 3 months) given birth. If you have any other health issues that might impact your Pilates practice, and you feel comfortable doing so, please inform the organizers/instructor when you sign up. This session is RSVP only due to space limitations: https://digitalrights.formstack.com/forms/pilates_rsvp |
| Providing VPN service at scale with Outline | Understand what it takes to provide VPN services to people at scale. Discuss common needs and challenges, and ideas on how to best overcome them. Perhaps start a space for mutual support after the event. |
| Researchers Meetup | |
| Reunion de COSIC | COSIC es una red de organizaciones de seguridad digital en América, el objetivo de esta sesión será reunirnos en privado para discutir temas de organización de la red e intercambio de conocimientos y experiencias en nuestros respectivos países. |
| Seeding a climate justice and digital rights community | Interested in the nexus of climate justice and digital rights? We have spent the last years slowly growing a network of funders and practitioners who work in this intersection (calling it the Green Screen Coalition), and we are keen to include more voices and perspectives and learn from each other. We are in the process of designing a small grants fund to catalyse and uplift the work happening in this intersection. Note: We will have several instances of this meetup. |
| Shaping the Tor advocates program | We are starting to organize a ""Tor advocates program"" and we want to host a circle for people who train others on Tor to learn about this idea and give us feedback on it. |
| Sharing between anti-censorship tools builders | We would like to invite other people working on building anti-censorship tools for a circle to share and build collaboration. Note, there are two instances of this meeting. |
| Sharing lesson on usability research / user needs | We made big changes at Tor to have the user as the center of everything we do. In 2017 we started to implement usability research as the key director for our decisions on development and organization strategy. We would like to share about what we learned during this process and how it has been beneficial to us. |
| Sharing of experiences in suing digital companies | Over the past few years, we've gathered evidence and organized legal action to try to change some of the more exploitative business models. I'll talk about the PornHub and Glovo (food delivery) cases. Some efforts were complex. But they worked. Others have been painful and full of pitfalls. In this meetup, I'd like to share the lessons I've learned. I hope others can use the few legal tools we have to challenge surveillance capitalism. |
| Sharing technology and insights among censorship tech providers | - Discuss how censorship tech providers can better share technology to avoid duplication and remove hurdles to move faster with less effort. - Present the Outline SDK as a possible approach to the problem of sharing tech. Gather feedback. - Discuss a standard to report connectivity issues to share insights in a time-sensitive and comprehensive way. - Hear about what everyone is working on and are excited about. |
| Silencing voices - Are non-disclosure and non-disparagement clauses enforceable? | Companies around the world are employing tactics that strangle employee voices to force secrecy about bad behavior. But the ability to speak out is essential to the fight to ensure oversight and regulation of tech companies who are mis-using NDAs, created to protect trade secrets, and silencing victims and witnesses of corporate wrongdoing. US federal law - following California's Silence No More Act - has started to chisel away at this problem by excluding workplace harassment from these clauses. This is a Call for Collaboration: Whistleblower Aid is working to launch a campaign to educate workers on the actual threat these agreements represent so we can hold these powerful companies accountable to their actions - while keeping workers safe. |
| Technologist Meetup | |
| Tech whistleblowers on the front line | Stunning disclosures from Tech whistleblowers have led to monumental breakthroughs for researchers, journalists and policy makers. Their bravery continues to drive transparency and accountability for powerful companies whose leadership decisions impact countless lives around the world. We will answer the burning questions about how to become a whistleblower, safely and lawfully, and how tech whistleblowers are changing the state of play, for all of us. This is a skills sharing meetup for anyone who is interested in: - the path of a whistleblower (before, during, and after) - resources and support available - the impact of tech whistleblowers around the world |
| The shutdown game | Players use their wits and abilities to circumvent internet shutdowns and restore connectivity to affected areas. They build encrypted communication networks, establish mesh networks, and use decentralized technologies to ensure communication channels remain open. Meanwhile, they avoid government surveillance and keep their digital activism covert. As players immerse themselves in the game, they gain insights into technical infrastructure concepts and circumvention tools. The game and the interaction among participants also educates players about the role of technology in promoting freedom of speech and expression, encouraging them to be vigilant defenders of an open internet in the real world. |
| Verifiably Portugal: Disinformation Fighting Photo Walk | Let's get together to discuss and practice using verifiable evidence photo capture apps (ProofMode, Tella, others?) in a fun, safe environment at the Feira. Topics include usability, how to share and verify with chain-of-custody, privacy concerns, and physical and digital risks. Here is an example of a similar activity we organized at the DWebCamp: https://proofmode.org/blog/dwebcamp-2023 |
| VPN Community Iniatiive | |
| Web Accessibility | Awareness, basic concepts, benefits, legislation, best practices, how to start? |
| Western Europe Meetup | |
| Where have you been / what’s your next destination | Chats and info sharing on your travel plan before and after Feira. |
| 2023 needs assessment of the digital security community in Eastern Partnership countries | Facilitators will present findings of the latest research focused on the needs of and the challenges faced by the digital security providers in the six countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. Participants will discuss findings and possible solutions. This meet up is for local digital security practitioners, implementers, and donors interested in the sustainability and capacity development of the digital security community in the region. |
| State of Emergency: Torture in Nicaragua | Understanding that it is a very difficult issue to address, but extremely necessary for the thousands of victims who have suffered it in Nicaragua. In this session I would like to talk about:A summary of the seriousness of the context in which Nicaragua has found itself for 5 years, such as the closure of organizations, exile, total elimination of freedom of expression, denationalization, among others. The various forms of torture, including sexual violence against women. Clandestine detention centres and perpetrators of torture. |
| Doxxing, personal information and what you can do | We are building a community of practice around doxxing, the sharing of personal information in public forums with the purpose of harm. We will discuss:
We will welcome sharing of experiences as is safe for each person. No one will be asked to share and personal or traumatic experiences. |
| Digital Educators and Trainers Meetup | Educators and trainers on digital topics can come together, connect and share their experience. People can propose topics at the beginning, otherwise I would run a discussion on a) status quo & possible challenges, b) sharing of happy stories, things we are proud of, and c) sharing educational methodologies and tipps with each other. |
Booth Descriptions
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| 1984 | NextCloud for NGOs | Human rights activists store data that need to be protected, sorted, and made accessible only to allies. There are alternatives to Google Docs and other commercial services, but how usable and stable are they? Using NextCloud and associated apps, we'll demonstrate how we make secure, hidden virtual offices easy to use. |
| 0xche | Mapping and analysis on social organization’s security vulnerabilities in Latin America | Project Description: The research project funded by OTF aims to understand the landscape of Latin America in terms of information security by doing grounded fieldwork with regional organizations to understand the common vulnerabilities in their systems and the patterns in their attack surface. We aim to map the state of information security of regional organizations and ignite discussions inside the ecosystem to raise awareness on the possibilities and challenges we face, thinking in defensive strategies, and how an offensive mindset can help us leverage our security. In addition, we plan to contribute with materials based on the identified findings to help highlight the most frequent informational threats and attack patterns that are faced by organizations' in the region. |
| Access Now Digital Security Helpline & Partners | Digital Safety Clinic | Access Now's Digital Safety Clinic works with individuals and organizations around the world to keep them safe online. If you're at risk, we can help you improve your digital security practices to keep out of harm's way. If you're already under attack, we provide rapid-response emergency assistance. |
| Accessibility Lab | Digital Accessibility Awareness | Internet freedom tool teams are increasingly confronted with the topic of accessibility for people with disabilities, yet are often unsure how to approach it. We can help you in the process. |
| Amnezia VPN (supported by Roskomsvoboda and Privacy Accelerator) | Amnezia VPN | Amnezia VPN is a free open-source VPN solution. The solution allows users to set up private VPN on their own server. The solution supports various protocols such as OpenVPN, WireGuard, Cloak, XRay, etc., which enables VPN traffic masking. The project was created in 2020 supported by Privacy Accelerator and the participation of the human rights organization Roskomsvoboda. Specially designed interface of Amnezia VPN allows people of any skill level to use it. Amnezia VPN has become popular in countries with high level of censorship, such as Russia, Turkmenistan, Iran, where the popular VPN services are being massively blocked. Amnezia VPN does not collect or transmit any data, which is confirmed by an independent audit from 7ASecurity. The main goal of Amnezia VPN is to develop world best free self-hosted VPN tool with all features of the best commercial VPN services. So that every person in any part of the world could have an easy, reliable and safe access to free Internet. https://en.amnezia.org. In the spring of 2022, the Amnezia VPN team launched Amnezia Free service. By means of this service, more than 250,000 users from Russia were able to bypass military censorship and retained access to independent media and social networks. Follow our news in English on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmneziaVPN/. And in Russian on Telegram: https://t.me/amnezia_vpn_news_ru |
| ASL19 | Iran Cyber Dialogue (ICD) | Iran Cyber Dialogue brings together stakeholders at the intersection of technology and civil society, including but not limited to tool developers, researchers, CSOs, minority rights activists, funders, policymakers, journalists, and more. On a regular basis, ICD holds online and in-person events to facilitate cross-sectoral dialogue that stimulate collaboration and the development of practical solutions to key challenges facing communities inside Iran. We also hold a Fellowship Program and a Community Wellness and Care Program to help the community thrive. |
| Center for Digital Resilience | Community Resilience Project | CDR fosters regional hubs for community resilience by building sustainable and innovative tools, systems, and coalitions. We help partners provide their communities with long-term, individualized security support and access to rapid, effective incident response; and we use open source technologies to collect, analyze, and share civil society threat intelligence to stop and prevent digital attacks against civil society. Want to work with us? |
| chequea.la | chequea.la | Chequea.la is a project that focuses on addressing security incidents on websites of human rights defenders and media organizations. The Chequea.la team consists of experienced individuals in website management for social organizations and media outlets. Their main resource is a permanent helpline through Signal, where people can reach out for assistance and guidance in case of issues or breaches on their web platforms. Users can provide detailed information about the incident, including date, time, relevant context, and any prior actions before the attack. In addition to the helpline, Chequea.la offers other tools such as a security checklist for WordPress sites, a quick URL analysis tool for WordPress, and a resource kit that compiles tutorials, guides, and tools to enhance website security. |
| Civic Tech Field Guide (a Superbloom Design project) | Civic Tech Field Guide | The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world's largest collection of tech projects for the public good. And, most relevant to our friends at the Feira, we've continued expanding our collection of projects focused on digital security and privacy, cybersecurity, digital rights, and responsible tech. Stop by and we'll show you how to find useful resources and drive global visibility to your own projects. Share your work at www.civictech.guide. |
| Clostra | NewNode | NewNode is a unique data transfer protocol developed for mobile, seamlessly blending off-the-grid device-to-device and peer-to-peer connectivity. It is implemented as a censorship and shutdown circumvention tool in a user-facing NewNode VPN and developer-facing NewNode Kit, and in an end-to-end encrypted, resilient NewNode messenger. NewNode is developed by LEDBAT, BitTorrent and FireChat creators, builds upon decades of experience and combines best traits of these projects. |
| Cloudflare | Project Galileo | Websites that are outlets for politically and culturally sensitive speech are oftentimes the victims of cyberattacks and other malicious Internet attacks. Because these websites champion new ideas and are usually underfunded, they often lack the resources to properly secure themselves from Internet attacks aimed at thwarting and suppressing legitimate free speech. Through Project Galileo, Cloudflare uses its sophisticated cybersecurity tools to help human rights groups, non-profit organizations, journalists, and artistic groups stay online. By offering these protections, Cloudflare seeks to help these organizations maintain their online presence and continue their important work without being disrupted by malicious attacks. |
| Designers United | UX + Comms Clinic | Looking for guidance on feature development, user feedback, content strategy, or user engagement? Join the UX + Comms Clinic! Here, you'll connect with UX and communications experts from the community in quick, rotating sessions. Bring your design and UX challenges for multi-perspective feedback. Whether you're bringing an idea, a problem, design sketches, or a prototype, you'll leave with valuable feedback and further support opportunities. |
| Distributed Denial of Secrets | DDoSecrets | We are publishing an archive and library for leaks and hacks. Since 2018, we have collected more than 100 terabytes of datasets, and we make them available without a paywall at ddosecrets.com. We believe in public access to information, and hope that other people will learn from our publication, and copy our work. |
| Globaleaks | Globaleaks | GlobaLeaks is the free and open-source software enabling anyone to easily set-up and maintain a secure whistleblowing platform. |
| Greenhost | Hosting & VPS for Digital Rights | Greenhost has been at the forefront of sustainable hosting and digital human rights for over 20 years, and we continue to strive for the highest standards in these aspects with our services. At our booth, we will showcase several projects related to this theme. Please stop by at out booth to check the agenda. Showcases: Stackspin: A collaborative workspace that shares your values. Easily installed with a click, it is managed simply and ensures safety and security. Learn how to regain ownership of your data and free yourself from Google's lock-in, all without the need for technical know-how. |
| Guardian Project | Guardian Project | It's been a moment since we were together! Come meet the team and talk about their current projects and passions 💚 Conversations may include F-Droid (alternative App Store), Butter Box (offline apps and services), scavenger hunts using ProofMode (digitally verified media), Clean Insights (privacy preserving measurements), Portuguese food, art and more! |
| Horizontal | Shira, Tella | Shira is a web app to help users develop their skills to detect and defeat phishing attacks. Users are able to take a quiz and attempt to detect which of the simulated messages look like phishing attacks and which are legitimate.Shira doesn't just train users on email phishing, but also on phishing messages received in WhatsApp, SMS, Facebook Messenger, and more commonly used apps. In challenging environments, with limited or no internet connectivity or in the face of repression, Tella makes it easier and safer to document human rights violations and collect data.
Tella makes it easy to encrypt and hide files on Android and iOS, and to share those files in a secure and private way. |
| HUMAN Security | Sharing information about digital attacks: Turning pain into collective power | Many in our community find it frustrating and difficult to get platforms to act on our reports of online social harms like harassment, election manipulation, disinformation, and hate speech. We also find it challenging to share information about digital attacks like phishing, malware, and account takeovers. This year, through the Dan Kaminsky Fellowship at HUMAN Security, Gus is exploring how the digital human rights community can more effectively share information about attacks, to demonstrate patterns, document abuses, and even stop attackers from harming us.Do you have: analysis tools or data sharing techniques that are working well for your organization? data about attacks you'd like to compare to others'? questions about how we can make this sharing easier? deep frustration with MISP/platforms/help lines/mailing lists/technology generally (you know Gus likes to complain about usability :D)? ideas about what we could do better? Stop by this booth to chat with Gus and other members of the community about this topic! Get some new ideas about potential tools and approaches, like the ATT&CK and DISARM frameworks, new threat dashboards in development, open source research tools, and research projects whose reports you may not have heard about yet. |
| HURIDOCS - Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems | Uwazi | Uwazi: what's new, what's next and how we can support you. HURIDOCS would love to reconnect with the community and share some updates about our flagship database tool Uwazi. We want to invite everyone who wants to learn more about how we support the human rights movement, or just say hi! Uwazi is a web-based tool designed for managing your data in one easy-to-search place. This open-source database application allows you to capture, organise and make sense of a set of facts, observations, testimonies, research, documents and more. More than 200 human rights groups and organizations globally are using Uwazi to help with data collection, evidence preservation, research and advocacy. Stop by if you want to learn more about Uwazi, its integration with another leading open-source solution Tella, and our newest tool Preserve, which is designed to capture and save online digital content. |
| infotropic.tech | biton | biton (https://bitonproject.org) is a peer-to-peer network for routing and storage that protects users from online censorship and surveillance. It incorporates identity management and leverages the users' social connections to establish a novel overlay capable of accommodating nodes with diverse networking capabilities.We will be bringing some leaflets and Cyprus delicacies to share at the booth. |
| Internews | Internet Freedom & Resilience Team | Internews' Internet Freedom and Resilience (IFR) portfolio seeks to advance the digital safety of human rights defenders, civil society members and journalists, and advocates for digital rights and protections for the world's most at-risk populations. From funding local Internet rights advocacy initiatives and open-source technology development, to designing cutting-edge approaches to organizational security, the IFR team focuses first on local partners' needs and works to demand a safe, inclusive, and open Internet for all. This booth will feature learnings and approaches from a wide range of projects, covering topics such as: innovative scenario-based digital safety training methods, threat analysis and approaches to sharing threats, approaches to encouraging digital protectors to acquire advanced skills, and the Safe Sisters digital security fellowship. |
| Intervozes | Amazônia Livre de Fakes | Survey and analysis of pages and profiles that disseminate hate speech and misinformation in the Amazon, about the Amazon and climate change. Work elaborated collectively with indigenous people, quilombolas, women and young people. |
| JAAKLAC iniciativa | Critical Digital Education for All | CDE for all is a collaborative multimedia campaign raising and amplifying the perspectives, research and resources from Latin American digital rights organisations.Why is education important? Which are the gaps and advances in digital education? How can children’s rights support in comprehensive digital agendas? Who can help to amplify overlooked approaches and worldviews on digital education? Digital agendas have privileged an education _with_ digital technologies, relegating decoding its implications to the neutralised views of fields such as science and technology. The CDE campaign showcases the educational and advocacy efforts from Latin America to address this deficit and fosters a global conversation on similar endeavours to materialise change. Let’s Do It Together! |
| Jigsaw, Google | Censored Planet Measurement Dashboard | Outline VPN is a free and open-source system that allows individuals and organizations to create their own VPNs and share access with friends and communities. It is censorship-resistant, efficient, extensible, and keeps you in control.By the time of the Feira, we will have released the Outline SDK, which makes it easy to reuse the battle-tested and cross-platform technology that powers Outline. This will enable others to: build new circumvention tools; and add circumvention capabilities to existing apps (great for content apps).
Come to our booth to share your insights and feedback, and to learn more about Outline, our latest development, and how to create your own app powered by Outline! Censored Planet is a platform that collects data on internet censorship using a variety of remote measurement techniques in more than 200 countries. Jigsaw and Censored Planet have teamed up to create a pipeline and dashboard to make the extensive measurement dataset more accessible and useful. Visit the Jigsaw booth to learn more about this valuable resource for understanding and exposing censorship. |
| MaadiXZone | MaadiX | MaadiX is a privacy-oriented, affordable and 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. |
| Micah Lee | Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data | I've spent the last 2 years writing a book to teach journalists, researchers, and hacktivists how to analyze data leaks, and it's about to be published! While it's highly technical (including teaching terminal skills and Python programming), it doesn't require any previous experience: all you need is a laptop running Windows, macOS or Linux, an internet connection, and a 1TB hard disk to download datasets from DDoSecrets to. It's highly interactive and full of hands-on exercises, sort of like a full course. You work with hacked police data, Parler videos from the January 6 insurrection, and a lot more.
The book is released under a Creative Commons license to reduce barriers to access. More info: https://hacksandleaks.com/ |
| Mozilla Foundation | Africa Mradi:Common Voice Project | Common voice is Mozilla's effort to teach machines how human's speak, through this project we are democratising voice for African languages to be represented in the voice technology ecosystem.Common voice is building a large open voice dataset by engaging communities such as those from low-resourced languages such indigenous and African languages. |
| NDI | CyberSim: Experiential Digital Security Learning | Interested in games, experiential learning, and new approaches to digital security training? Stop by NDI's "Experiential Learning" booth to learn about CyberSim (a multi-player, "tabletop" style role-playing game designed to simulate risks for a civic organization or campaign) and to sign up for your spot to play the game with us at the Feira! CyberSim, in addition to some interactive fiction games that we'll highlight at the booth, is designed to help players assess their own readiness and experience the potential consequences of unmitigated risks in a fun, interactive setting. We look forward to seeing you all there! |
| Novem Portugal | Novem Portugal | For a fairer and more competitive cloud ecosystem in Portugal: 351 – Portuguese Startup Association and ESOP – Portuguese Open-Source Software Companies Association lead the NUVEM Initiative in Portugal. This initiative was originally launched in Spain (“Nubes”) and more recently in Portugal, together counting on the collaboration and support of more than sixty companies representing the technology sector in the Iberian Peninsula.
It consists of a movement to build a fairer and more competitive cloud ecosystem in Portugal, which aims to appeal to the need of overcoming the obstacles that this ecosystem still faces. By promoting a discussion open to all stakeholders and decision-makers about improving the cloud ecosystem, the aim of the NUVEM Initiative is for the cloud to be part of a fair, competitive, transparent, secure, and sustainable environment, helping to place our country at the forefront of this technology. |
| Nois Radio | Convite | Convite es un proyecto de sensibilización sobre autocuidados y cuidados colectivos enfocado, especialmente, a guardias indígenas, cimarronas y campesinas del suroccidente colombiano y a quienes defienden el medio ambiente, la autonomía de los territorios y la comunicación alternativa.A través de talleres de sensibilización y de la creación y circulación de postales sonoras, Convite busca contribuir con información, herramientas y recursos de autocuidado, protección y seguridad en los espacios digitales, físicos y psicosociales. Y es, sobre todo, una suma de voluntades y herramientas entre la comunidad de los derechos humanos en la era digital y las comunidades indígenas, afros y campesinas del suroccidente colombiano. Pero que pueden ser adaptadas y abrazadas en otros contextos latinoamericanos. |
| Numun Fund | Feminist Tech Playground (FTP) @ the Global Gathering | Feminist Tech Playground is a convening that Numun Fund co-organised with APC Women's Rights Programme in 2021/2022, to create a space to convene community, and explore questions, practices and thinking on feminist infrastructure for movement organising from the perspective of play. In this Feira, we'll be setting up an interactive, hang out space for feminist tech activists and allies to get to know and learn from each other, imagine and co-conspire on how we can organise around feminist tech - in the spirit and politics of play. There will be some scheduled play sessions with topics ranging from resourcing feminist tech with women's funds, feminist.tech infrastructure dev, exploring gendered dis/misinformation, etc, which we'll confirm nearer the date. |
| IUS OMNIBUS - European Consumer Alliance | Break the Algorithm Black Box - Consumer Alliance for Algorithm Transparency (#CALL4#ALGORITHM#TRANSPARENCY) | This campaign advocates that the users of social networks, as owners of data and holders of data protection rights, should exercise their right of access to the logic involved in the automatic processing of their data and the consequences associated with it, such as the qualifications they are labelled with and the behaviural inducing techniques that they are subject to, by social networks or third parties that acquire user data points.
If we, users and data subjects, have access to what algorithms produce about us, and for what purposes and using which techniques, we open the way not only for accountability for misuse of data, but also to set the boundaries of what social networks can and cannot do to people. That's why we invite everyone in the EU who is a user of a social network to subscribe to the Request of Access under Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation template provided online by the CONSUMER ALLIANCE FOR ALGORITHM TRANSPARENCY, POWERED BY THE EUROPEAN CONSUMER ASSOCIATION IUS OMNIBUS, which in Latin means Justice for ALL. |
| 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. |
| Open Culture Foundation | Helix - A tool for CSOs and it's more than just a VPN! | Facing the fact in our country-Taiwan, although CSOs and HRDs do aware their risk in digital threats, but implement into their daily pracitices still a way to go since it is a change with efforts! Through the tool - Helix we developed, we provide a trustworthy VPN to HRDs , moreover, this application can be used for testing the potential risks under their daily use. By providing this risk testing report, we can have further space to discuss their safety online as the awarness rising. |
| Open Culture Foundation | Open Starter Village | “Open StarTer Village” is a board game that makes players understand collaboration and makes open source project hacking faster. This spirit is imprinted in game design. We collect 30+ open source projects in this board game, that includes projects from open source, open government and open data issues. Players can access diverse open source projects while playing this game. Overall, we hope to attract people to understand that “open source” is a value to share the resource and collaborate together. It’s not limited to software engineers. Everyone can join open source projects and implement open source value in our daily life! |
| Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) | Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) | OONI is a free software project that has been measuring Internet censorship around the world since 2012. Join the OONI community and help increase transparency of Internet censorship! |
| Open Tech Fund | Open Tech Fund | The Open Technology Fund supports projects focused on technology development, applied research, digital security programs, and community convenings that further the internet freedom mission. We fund efforts that help folks access the internet in restrictive environments, shed light on information controls, and improve the security and privacy of users' online experiences. |
| Phoenix R&D | Secure, Private and Decentralized Messaging | Everyone has the right to digital privacy and security. Our mission at Phoenix R&D is to make secure communication more broadly accessible to everyone. In order to achieve this, we’re building a new generation of open-source messaging technology combining privacy, security, and decentralization.Our team consists of the former security team of the Wire messenger and has been working on a new protocol for end-to-end encryption. In July, the Messaging Layer Security protocol was released as a new standard for end-to-end encryption. At our booth, we want to discuss with you what the future of secure messaging could look like, hear from you what is missing in the secure messaging space, and give you a sneak peek at what we are currently building. |
| Quiet | Quiet | Quiet is an alternative to team chat apps like Slack and Discord that does not use central servers, does not require phone numbers or email addresses, and uses a peer-to-peer network built on Tor. Quiet is built by activists and we're pursuing the set of features necessary for teams doing sensitive work, like private groups, disappearing messages, channels and threads, and censorship circumvention. |
| Safer-I Nepal | Your #DigitalPrivacy Toolkit | The Safer-I campaign is devoted to creating a safe, accessible, ethical, and inclusive digital space for everyone. We do so by conducting onsite hands-on workshops and online social media advocacy around the topics of ethical and inclusive technology. We strongly believe that our initiative contributes to the bigger picture of crafting technology for everyone, as it should be.Our project 'Your #DigitalPrivacy Toolkit' is aimed at diverse internet users with the aim to equip them with necessary digital security tips that keep their identity and data safe online as well as offline. We provide a one-stop solution in the form of a virtual toolkit that participants can use to learn about day-to-day digital device tricks and also debunk privacy myths online. |
| Sasha ApS | SASHA - Safe Share | SASHA (short for Safe Share) is a Danish tech startup company that was founded in 2020 to help with the burden of evidence in image abuse cases. Our vision is "to accelerate online safety and digital rights for all individuals by providing a scalable tool that can help with the burden of evidence in image abuse and identity theft cases”. |
| SocialTIC | Datavoros: How much do your favorite apps feed on your personal data? | Datávoros es un proyecto de investigación sobre la recolección voraz de datos a través de aplicaciones móviles desarrolladas por gobiernos y empresas.Analizamos aplicaciones para saber qué datos se recolectan y cómo, qué permisos piden y cuáles son sus medidas de seguridad y privacidad.
Compartimos acciones para tomar el control de nuestros datos y exigir medidas de protección y gestión responsable de datos. Conoce Datávoros en el Global Gathering Feira y exploremos las prácticas de recopilación de datos. Compartiremos el proceso de análisis de aplicaciones para descubrir qué tanto se alimentan de ti las aplicaciones que utilizas. Visita www.datavoros.org para conocer más del proyecto, consultar los análisis y hallazgos. Datavoros is a research project about the voracious data collection practices employed by mobile applications developed by governments and corporations. Let's explore data consumption. We analyze applications to understand the type of data they collect and the methods they employ. We evaluate the permissions these apps request and their security and privacy measures. Our findings empower you to make informed decisions about the apps you choose to engage with. Join us in advocating for data protection. We share actionable steps you can take to regain control over your data and advocate for responsible data protection measures from governments and corporations. Experience Datavoros firsthand at the Global Gathering Feira and explore data collection practices together. We will share the app analysis process to understand the voracious data collection from your favorite apps. Visit www.datavoros.org to learn more about the project, engage with our research and unveil how much your favorite apps feed on your personal data. |
| Sparkable | Sparkable | Sparkable is a community-led effort to counter polarization, misinformation, hate, and other dangerous trends connected to the engagement model with a new not-for-profit platform business model. |
| Sursiendo | Tecnoafecciones https://sursiendo.org/tecnoafecciones/ | En un contexto donde el conocimiento, la reflexión tecnológica y la propia tecnología han sido pensadas y construidas desde marcos racionalistas, occidentales, masculinos y blancos es urgente revincularnos con las tecnologías desde los afectos, los cuidados y los valores que sostienen para crear otros futuros posibles, futuros que sean dignos y tecnodiversos.Tecnoafecciones es un proyecto que implica repensar la tecnología en clave feminista, descolonial, situada, que nos permita desarrollar y generar pensamiento-acción en torno a nuestra relación con la tecnología a través de una propuesta teórica y el desarrollo de contenidos que presenten las visiones de las comunidades afectadas, junto a propuestas metodológicas de talleres y una campaña digital dirigida a públicos amplios. El proyecto está dirigido a personas que tengan oportunidad de repensar su relación afectiva con las tecnologías: los modos de hacer, los vínculos que habilitan o inhabilitan, los impactos cercanos y lejanos. Buscamos activar nuestra capacidad de creación colectiva, nuestras posibilidades de articularnos políticamente, de rescatar nuestras maneras colectivas de hacer juntas desde la revinculación> y el afecto, nuestra voluntad de reconocernos como comunidad y posibilidad, nuestro compromiso de responsabilizarnos como acción colectiva. Queremos hacer explícita nuestra voluntad de generar impactos deseados y nuestra potencia transformadora de mundos. Nuestra ilusión por construir futuros dignos y justos para todas. |
| Tactical Tech | Variety of Tactical Tech Projects | Since its creation 20 years ago, Tactical Tech hasco-developed hundreds of interventions and resources in collaboration with partners and collaborators worldwide. Swing by to discover some of Tactical Tech's most recent educational interventions, resources and tools--and take copies of our materials home with you to use and share. |
| Team CommUNITY | Digital Justice House | Psychosocial research has demonstrated a severe crisis of emotional health in the digital rights space. At Team Community (TCU), we propose that structural issues of this industry, specifically labour rights, are crucial to tackle this problem, and in the recent months we have been sharing in different spaces the Digital Justice Every Day pamphlet with concrete organisational policies to tackle this crisis that not only affects the wellbeing of our community members but also impacts in the quality of the work we produce.During two hours we will be available to safely discuss labour rights affairs, we have noticed the lack of instances to reflect on this topic so this opportunity will be a necessary moment to assess and promote better holistic conditions for the different individuals participating in the 2023 Global Gathering. Our intention is to advance towards collective strategies between digital rights defenders, funders and other stakeholders to make the right to decent work a standard for our industry.Just pass by, pick a pamphlet and share your thoughts if you feel like :slightly_smiling_face:Information about our materials and resources are available at the website of our Digital Justice House program: https://www.digitaljustice.house/ |
| The Calyx Institute | CalyxOS Privacy-Focused Android Operating System | CalyxOS is an Android mobile operating system that puts privacy andsecurity into the hands of everyday users. Everyone needs a phone. Not everyone wants to be spied on. Reclaim your privacy with CalyxOS. |
| The Engine Room | Building our shared toolbox to effectively and more safely use tech/data in our work! | Social justice advocates and movement members engage with technology and data in their work in diverse ways. We mitigate risks of technology being used externally - on us, in our communities, or on allies - and we harness what we can of its benefits to strengthen our work. Bring your current tech/data challenges to The Engine Room's booth to explore resources and tools that can strengthen your work. Together, we can grow our shared tool box and knowledge base and mutually support each others' critical work. (Our booth would be guided by the learnings and approach from our Light Touch Support: https://www.theengineroom.org/light-touch-support/) |
| The London Story | Documenting Hate Speech and Disinformation in India | As civil society spaces shrink in India and digital rights are under imminent assault, documenting the abuse of online spaces for harmful purposes in India becomes an impossible task. The London Story, a diaspora-led organisation, takes on this work from abroad: Documenting hate speech and incitement to violence to ensure harmful content is taking down, countering censorship of critical voices by social media platforms by engaging with platforms, and creating an evidence base of the origins and consequences for Indian democracy of propaganda. Talk with us about our transnational work, the state of affairs in India, and how to promote global equity. |
| The Tor Project | Onionizing the Feira | At the Tor booth we want to connect with other members of the community, Tor's users and applications developers from the Internet Freedom community. If you are not yet part of our community, come chat with us, we will explain how to be a volunteer and become more involved. We will share different initiatives at Tor to help organizations in the global south, come learn more about our Onion Support work! Or if you have any questions about the different technology we build or our organization. Check the full program here: https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-project-sessions-for-the-feira-at-global-gathering/8242 |
| Venezuela Inteligente | Conexion Segura | If you are interested in starting or expanding work on documenting internet censorship and shutdowns you will want to see the tools VE sin Filtro has developed, including multiple dashboards and systems to help you monitor and analyse OONI censorship measurements as well as PiProbe, an easy way to create customised automated measurements with a Raspberry Pi.Conexion Segura produces engaging videos and training materials for different audiences. Come to see everything from 3D-printed teaching materials for explaining encryption, to Creative-Commons-licensed videos teaching digital security that you could use in your own work. |
| WHAT TO F.IX dot tech | #MonetizationProject | Research shows that the primary driver of online misinformation is financial. But what is fueling the exponential growth of the misinformation-for-profit industry?The #MonetizationProject investigate the role of social media companies, exposing how Youtube and Facebook monetization programs have been central to the incentive and bankrolling of the industry. Building on 4 years worth of data, the project reveals how social media companies consistently fail to apply adequate due diligence and makes tools available to empower researchers to cross reference their own actors for monetization and further contribute to the evidence base. |
| Wikimedia Foundation | Diversity, Equity and Inclusion within the Wikimedia Movement | The Wikimedia Foundation has been, for the past years focusing on not only bridging the gender gap within the Wikimedia Movement but within the Foundation as well. I'd like to showcase the best practices and offer resources and advice to other organizations on their journeys to making their communities as well as their institutions more equitable, just, and inclusive. |
| Zamaneh Media | Censorship Resilient and Distributed Publishing | Independent publishers, media in exile, and oppositional and dissident voices find it increasingly difficult to build an audience and maintain reach in heavily censored environments. Zamaneh Media is an independent voice in the internet freedom community, creating censorship circumvention and shutdown mitigation tools and strategies informed by the particular needs of publishers and their audiences. Come by and find out more about our latest censorship resilient and distributed publishing tools, strategies and ideas! |
