Global Gathering Feira Agenda

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Meetup Schedule

Meetup Descriptions

Zone Area Sep 15 Sep 16 Sep 17
14:00 - 15:00 15:30 - 16:30 17:00 - 18:00 14:00 - 15:00 15:30 - 16:30 17:00 - 18:00 14:00 - 15:00 15:30 - 16:30 17:00 - 18:00
Front Area Onion How to contribute to the Tor project Shaping the Tor advocates program Sharing between anti-censorship tools builders (PART 2) Experience of censored users Sharing lesson on usability research / user needs NoScript conversation
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Palm North America Digital Rights Meetup Intro to a network disruption enumeration system (WIP)
Olive EU Digital Rights Meetup Tech whistleblowers on the front line. Web Accessibility
Aloe Cat lovers’ corner IT Service Providers for Nonprofits & Human Rights Organizations. Verifiably Portugal: Disinformation Fighting Photo Walk Media Security Meetup
Lotus Where have you been / what’s your next destination Brainstorming the future of anti-phishing education The shutdown game Silencing voices: Are non-disclosure and non-disparagement clauses enforceable? Digital Identity Meetup Keep calm and put it on the blockchain? Decentralized storage tradeoffs for radical archiving Join us for CyberSim!
Monstera Policy Meetup Latin America Meetup Disinfo f*ck up - Open Mic session Cyber FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) meetup Digital Infrastructure for a Transfeminist World: How to Set up a Feminist Server with a Domestic Connection Outline VPN Meetup Media Security Meetup for For Jouranlists Lingua Café Chats: digital rights impressions on tech and language inclusion
Back Area Teal Sharing Experiences of Suing Digital Companies Asia Meetup Seeding a climate justice and digital rights community (part 1) Mapping out collaboration and info sharing for anti-censorship work. Designing and Maintaining Global South Spaces and Collaborations for Holding Platforms Accountable
Yellow Researchers Meetup Africa Meetup CiviCERT Members Meetup Civic Spaces in the Global Majority. IT Service Providers for Nonprofits & Human Rights Organizations. Seeding a climate justice and digital rights community (part 2)
Pink Technologist Meetup Eastern Europe Meetup Blocked Off for Cri Feminist Tech Play Session: Approaches & Tools in Building Decentralised Community Platforms Funders Meetup (note this is for funders only) Harassment reporting: Identifying opportunities for more effective collective power"" From Rapid Response to Sustainable Protection: Responding to Digital Threats Through Funding
Blue Digital Security Trainers Meetup MENA Meetup Blocked Off for GF Let's Stop Online Image Abuse VPN Community Intiative Reunion de COSIC Providing VPN service at scale with Outline Sharing technology and insights among censorship tech providers (PART 1) Advancing SAFETAG as a framework for the next generation of organizational security practitioners
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Project Showcase Schedule

Project Showcase Project Descriptions

Booth Sep 15 Sep 16 Sep 17
14:00 - 16:00 16:00 - 18:00 14:00 - 16:00 16:00 - 18:00 14:00 - 16:00 16:00 - 18:00
1 Access Now - Digital Safety Helpline Omnibus Access Now - Digital Safety Helpline Omnibus Access Now - Digital Safety Helpline Access Now - Digital Safety Helpline
2 The Calyx Institute - CalyxOS The Calyx Institute - CalyxOS The Calyx Institute - CalyxOS The Calyx Institute - CalyxOS The Calyx Institute - CalyxOS The Calyx Institute - CalyxOS
3 OnionShare - OnionShare Civic Tech Field Guide (a Superbloom Design project) - Civic Tech Field Guide Phoenix R&D - Secure, Private and Decentralized Messaging The Calyx Institute - CalyxOS Horizontal - Tella & Shira Horizontal - Tella & Shira
4 Team CommUNITY - Information Booth & Job Fair Team CommUNITY - Information Booth & Job Fair Team CommUNITY - Information Booth & Job Fair Team CommUNITY - Information Booth & Job Fair Team CommUNITY - Information Booth & Job Fair Team CommUNITY - Information Booth & Job Fair
5 HUMAN Security - Sharing information about digital attacks: Turning pain into collective power NDI - CyberSim: Experiential Digital Security Learning NDI - CyberSim: Experiential Digital Security Learning MaadiXZone - MaadiX NDI - CyberSim: Experiential Digital Security Learning OPEN TO BOOK
6 SocialTIC - Datávoros The London Story - Documenting Hate Speech and Disinformation in India SocialTIC - Datávoros 0xche - Mapping and analysis on social organization’s security vulnerabilities in Latin America chequea.la - chequea.la Brightlines - How easy is it to dox in your country?
7 Numun Fund - Feminist Tech Playground (FTP) @ the Global Gathering Numun Fund - Feminist Tech Playground (FTP) @ the Global Gathering Accessibility Lab / United Designers - Digital Accessibility Awareness / UX and Communications Clinic Accessibility Lab + United Designers - Digital Accessibility Awareness + UX and Communications Clinic Accessibility Lab + United Designers - Digital Accessibility Awareness + UX and Communications Clinic Accessibility Lab + United Designers - Digital Accessibility Awareness + UX and Communications Clinic
8 Greenhost Greenhost Greenhost Greenhost Greenhost Greenhost
9 Guardian Project - Guardian Project Whistleblower Aid - Whistleblower: Everything you want to know Center for Digital Resilience - Community Resilience Project Guardian Project - Guardian Project Mozilla Foundation - Common Voice Organization: 1984 - NextCloud for NGOs
10 Amnezia VPN (supported by Roskomsvoboda and Privacy Accelerator) - Amnezia VPN infotropic.tech - biton Safer-I Nepal - Your #DigitalPrivacy Toolkit Amnezia VPN (supported by Roskomsvoboda and Privacy Accelerator) - Amnezia VPN Amnezia VPN (supported by Roskomsvoboda and Privacy Accelerator) - Amnezia VPN Organization: infotropic.techProject: biton
11 TCU - Digital Justice House Distributed Denial of Secrets - DDoSecrets Jigsaw, Google - Outline VPN and SDK | Censored Planet Measurement Dashboard Jigsaw, Google - Outline VPN and SDK | Censored Planet Measurement Dashboard Tactical Tech - Variety of Tactical Tech Projects Jigsaw, Google - Outline VPN and SDK | Censored Planet Measurement Dashboard
12 Tor Project - Tor Project Tor Project - Tor Project Tor Project - Tor Project Tor Project - Tor Project Tor Project - Tor Project Tor Project - Tor Project
13 Sasha ApS - SASHA Sasha ApS - SASHA WHAT TO F.IX dot tech - #MonetizationProject Sasha ApS - SASHA Sasha ApS - SASHA Sasha ApS - SASHA
14 OPEN TO BOOK Cloudflare - Project Galileo Nois Radio - Convite Cloudflare - Project Galileo Digital Dada - Tackling Online Gender-Based Violence - Insights from "Digital Dada" Podcast Wikimedia Foundation - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion within the Wikimedia Movement
15 Clostra - NewNode Quiet - Quiet Clostra - NewNode Quiet - Quiet Internews - Internet Freedom & Resilience Team OPEN TO BOOK
16 Venezuela Inteligente - Ve Sin Filtro's PiProbe and project dashboards | Conexion Segura Globaleaks - Globaleaks Venezuela Inteligente - Ve Sin Filtro's PiProbe and project dashboards | Conexion Segura Globaleaks - Globaleaks Sinar Project - Findings of Internet Censorship 2023 in Southeast Asia Open Culture Foundation - Helix : a tool for CSOs and it's more than just a VPN!
17 Sparkable - Sparkable Intervozes - Amazônia Livre de Fakes Sparkable - Sparkable OPEN TO BOOK Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) - Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) - Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
18 ASL19 - Iran Cyber Dialogue Sursiendo - Tecnoafecciones JAAKLAC iniciativa - Critical Digital Education for All JAAKLAC iniciativa - Critical Digital Education for All Zamaneh Media - Censorship Resilient and Distributed Publishing Zamaneh Media - Censorship Resilient and Distributed Publishing
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70 Swag Corner - Leave your stickers and swag for participants here! Swag Corner - Leave your stickers and swag for participants here! Swag Corner - Leave your stickers and swag for participants here! Swag Corner - Leave your stickers and swag for participants here! Swag Corner - Leave your stickers and swag for participants here! Swag Corner - Leave your stickers and swag for participants here!

Evening Activities and Performances

Friday, September 15th
Party Sponsor: Globaleaks
Performers: Valencia Drive (Drag Artist), Nathaly (DJ)

Saturday, September 16th
Party Sponsor: Greenhost
Performers: Alia Haju (Musician), Danae (DJ), Sarah Aoun (DJ)

Sunday, September 17th
Party Sponsor: The Calyx Institute
Activity: Open Mic Karaoke!

Performer Bios

Valencia Drive: New York City drag artist Valencia Drive is your commercial-free, hi-NRG mix of the 80’s, 90’s and today, here to serve you fashion, comedy, and cartoonish nonsense. Is she woman? Is she machine? Or is she just a drag queen? These and many more questions will go unanswered during an extra special Global Gathering performance by the most stunning, perfect, and legendary drag icon you’ve never, ever heard of before (IG: @thevalenciadrive)

Alia Haju: Alia Haju is a Brooklyn-based artist, filmmaker and musician. She arrived in New York after fleeing Lebanon for the second time in 2020. Alia played her first instrument at the age of 8 and it's been hard to spot her without one since.

Whether it's guitar, oud, tar, riq, or her inimitable vocals, her talents have propelled her onto stages in Beirut and New York and across genres, from alternative rock to rap and baroque classical music, to leftist Arabic classics, singing about working class struggles and revolutions. She collaborates and performs with musicians from across the Middle East and the US as a singer/musician, and composer. She played on the streets of Beirut and New York during the 2019 Lebanese uprising and BLM and Pride protests in 2020. Alia received a grant from NYFA in 2022 to complete the first music album, Bassara, with her group Taktouka Band. Beyond music, Alia got her bachelor's of fine arts at the American University of Beirut and is now an award-winning filmmaker and worldwide published photographer.

She has been published in worldwide media outlets, and her upcoming anima/doc has received various grants such as AFAC, the Doha film institute, and MFG.

Meetup Descriptions

Advancing SAFETAG as a framework for the next generation of organizational security practitioners Public At this meetup, organizational security practitioners, members of the SAFETAG community, and digital security trainers are invited to convene to discuss concrete actions to advance SAFETAG as a framework for the next generation of organizational security practitioners. Together we will identify opportunities to revive community contributions, discuss priority areas for changes and updates, and look at broader questions about clarifying, sharpening, and developing the framework. During the meetup attendees will also review existing contribution, discussion, and localization mechanisms.
Brainstorming the future of anti-phishing education Public In September 2023, Shira v1.0 was released to the public on https://shira.app. Shira is a web app to help users develop their skills to identify and defeat phishing attacks on email but also on messaging apps like WhatsApp, SMS, Facebook Messenger, etc.||We are now planning the future of Shira: how can we improve Shira to make it as useful as possible to the digital rights community, to digital safety trainers, and to vulnerable communities in general? Join us to shape the future of anti-phishing education. |
Cat lovers’ corner Public We all have cats, aren't we? It's time to share your cat's photo. |
Civic Spaces in the Global Majority Semi-Private This meet-up is a follow-up to previous closed meetings DRF has facilitated with civil society and HRDs from the global majority to share challenges they face in terms of due to state-backed harassment, attacks, surveillance and onerous registration which has made it nearly impossible to work in certain countries and contexts. A preliminary meeting was conducted at RightsCon 2023 with civil society from across the Global Majority and donor organisations to discuss challenges and needs. This follow-up meet-up will seek to include more actors and work towards developing robust strategies for tackling these issues.
CiviCERT Members Meetup Invite-Only 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.
Cyber FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) meetup Public Come join us in a discussion to debunk cybersecurity / digital security myths and focus on security that is effective and usable. We will talk about simple and trauma-informed security approaches to help reduce security paralysis, nihilism, and circumvention.
Designing and Maintaining Global South Spaces and Collaborations for Holding Platforms Accountable Semi-Private In this session, groups and individuals working in the Global South will discuss how to collaborate together to hold platforms accountable for their human rights harms violations. Key elements of the discussion will include: 1) how do we design participatory and democratic spaces for collaboration and 2) how can we learn from previous experiences and better sustain such spaces. The discussion will feed into the Global South Platform Accountability Collaboration, an ongoing initiative aimed at bringing together groups working in Africa, Latin America, and Asia to hold platforms accountable.
Digital Identity Meetup Public 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.
Digital Infrastructure for a Transfeminist World: How to Set up a Feminist Server with a Domestic Connection Public We believe in technological autonomy, in our ability to build the Internet we want to inhabit. In this meetup, we want to present ""How to set up a feminist server with a domestic connection"", a fanzine that will guide restless feminists in setting up a web server to host their static webpages. https://labekka.red/servidoras-feministas/
Disinfo f*ck up - Open Mic session Public 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.
Experience of censored users Public 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 Semi-Private 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 Public 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) Public 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.
Harassment reporting: Identifying opportunities for more effective collective power"" Semi-Private 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 Public 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) Public 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 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 Public 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! Semi-Private 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!||[ Note for organizers: if possible we'd like to have two sessions with a maximum of 15 attendees per session. We would plan to collect sign-ups at our booth and elsewhere prior to the meetups. Ideal times for two meetups (if available) would be on the 16th late afternoon (16:30 to 18:00) and on the 17th early afternoon (14:00 to 15:30). We are of course happy to adjust as needed based upon availability, but figure providing some suggestions may be helpful!]||
Keep calm and put it on the blockchain? Decentralized storage tradeoffs for radical archiving Public 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?
Let's Stop Online Image Abuse - Join Us! Semi-Private 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 Public 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. Public 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 Public 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. Public A meetup of people for journalist to do Q&A with various media security professionals.
Mobile Device Farm in China Invite-Only Later this year, GreatFire is planning to launch a new project, ""Mobile Device Farm in China"", which will set up mobile testbeds in China to directly run tests for mobile circumvention software as well as measure mobile network censorship of the Great Firewall (GFW). ||We have a small group of seven trusted partner organizations (Psiphon, Lantern, Tor, Snowflake, Guardian Project, OONI, and University of Maryland) who will be given access to the testbeds and share findings together. ||We'd like to organize a private meetup with these partners to share the previous challenges and knowledge with the censorship circumvention technology in China, and discuss the future strategies to defeat the GFW.
NoScript conversation Public 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 Public 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.
Pilates for Physical, Emotional and Digital Resilience RSVP Only 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 Semi-Private 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.
Reunion de COSIC Invite-Only 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 Public 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.|
Shaping the Tor advocates program Public 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 Public We would like to invite other people working on building anti-censorship tools for a circle to share and build collaboration.
Sharing lesson on usability research / user needs Public 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 Semi-Private 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 Semi-Private - 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? Public 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. |
Tech whistleblowers on the front line Semi-Private 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 Public 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 Public 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
Web Accessibility Public Awareness, basic concepts, benefits, legislation, best practices, how to start?
Where have you been / what’s your next destination Public Chats and info sharing on your travel plan before and after Feira.

Project Showcase Descriptions

Organization Project Project Description
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 Access Now's Digital Security Helpline 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 Greenhost
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 Outline VPN and SDK | 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.

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.
N/A Regional Digital Security Network Regional Digital Security Network unites digital security providers from six countries of Eastern Europe and South Caucasus, including specialized NGOs and independent practitioners. The Network's goal is to support the digisec community in this part of the world by ensuring continuous capacity building and professional development of its members.
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!
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.
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 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!
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 Datávoros: ¿Qué tanto se alimentan de ti tus aplicaciones favoritas? | 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 has

co-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
The Calyx Institute CalyxOS Privacy-Focused Android Operating System CalyxOS is an Android mobile operating system that puts privacy and

security 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 Ve Sin Filtro's PiProbe and project dashboards | 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.

Whistleblower Aid Whistleblower - Everything you want to know I would like to host a booth to give the community an understanding of that their rights and protections are as we continually work to battle the secrecy held by the powerful. There is a safe and legal path to acting on your conscience and there are limitations to threats made to silence people, such as NDAs and non-disparagement clauses. I want people to know that they have agency and there are orgs like ours that can guide, nurture and provide legal representation to public interest whistleblowers. Though it is not a traditional tool, this booth would be a service for the community. Thank you for your consideration.
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!