September 9 2025 Agenda

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Join us for good food and music

12:00 to 13:00: Lunch and Networking Hour

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

	Self-Organized Socials
	Arrange or check out the list of Self-Organized Socials taking place off-site (but close by) locations, ranging from meetups to numerous activities. https://pad.riseup.net/p/GGSocials
	A Sample of Today's Socials:

	Circles and Villages You can find detailed Circle descriptions the end of this page. You can also organize your own self-organized Circle or Booth in the empty spaces (marked SOC TBD) by following these instructions.
Circles, September 9
Location	13:30 - 14:30	15:00 - 16:00	16:30 - 17:30
Circle 1	Which Free Software Alternative for Which Needs	From Seas to Skies: The New Frontiers of Internet Governance	AI Risk Mitigation from the Trainer and Civil Society Organization Point of View
Circle 2	VPN Providers: Building a Unified Front to Ensure Our Collective Sustainability	Leading AI Detection: Deepfakes, Provenance & Protection	Who’s Writing Our Story? Documenting the why as well as the how
Circle 3	The Role of Data and Tech During Elections & its Effect on Human Rights	Inside a Cross-Border Investigation on Surveillance and Censorship Tech	Mapping the Global Spyware Landscape: Perspectives, Gaps & Possibilities
Circle 4		Device Searches Around The World: Building For Deniability
Circle 5	The Practice of Joy: Sustaining Hope in the Tech Justice Movement
Circle 6
Villages, September 9
Location	13:30 - 14:30	15:00 - 16:00	16:30 - 17:30
Luminate Village (Booth 78 and 79)	Effective Altruism: How Can Civil Society and Philanthropy Respond?	Effective Altruism: How Can Civil Society and Philanthropy Respond?	Effective Altruism: How Can Civil Society and Philanthropy Respond?
Calyx Village (Booth 9)	Secure Messaging in 2025 and What Comes Next?		Sketch It Out: Unblock Your Brain and Spark Creative Flow
Circumvention Tech Village (Booth 12)		VPN Guild
APC Village (Booth 7)
Open Measurement Gathering (OMG) Village (Booth 17)	Mapping Emerging Digital Rights Threats	Internet Measurement Research Questions and Ideas	Are You My Measurement Tool?
Digital Rights Sustainability Village (Main Stage)	Brainstorm on Alternative Funding Models (Part 2)	Numun Fund Session Part 1	A Listening Session on the Digital Rights Funding Collapse
Regional Topics A (Booth 21)	Capacity Building in Community Contexts: Needs, Pedagogies, and Emerging Challenges	Colaboremos midiendo y resistiendo bloqueos y cortes de internet en latinoamérica	Surveillance Technologies and Organized Crime: Impacts and Resistance
Regional Topics B (Booth 22)	TFGBV, Disinformation, and Platform Accountability in the Indo-Pak Conflict of 2025
SWANA Village (Booth 81)	Meta's Shifting Moderation Model: Rethinking Trusted Partner Escalations		From Palestine to Mexico: The Interconnectedness of Violent Tech
Queer Rights Village (Booth 5)	Queer Meetup	Queer Bodies and Identities Under Threat in the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) Region.

	Booths You can find detailed Booths & Villages descriptions at the bottom of this page. In the venue (IRL), each booth has a number, found on the top-center of each booth's "window".
Booths, September 9
	13:00 - 15:00			15:30 - 17:30
Location	Name	Run by		Name	Run by
Booth 4a	Psychological First Aid: Tools for Care and Connection by Vita Activa	Vita Activa		Secure Storyteller Network	Secure Storyteller Network
Booth 4b	Amnezia VPN	Amnezia VPN		Amnezia VPN	Amnezia VPN
(Queer Rights Village) Booth 5	Queer Rights Booth			Logic(s) Magazine	Logic(s) Magazine
Booth 6	Open Source Design Collective	Open Source Design		Operator Foundation	Operator Foundation
(APC Village) Booth 7	APC Village	APC		APC Village	APC
Booth 8	Article 19 & Yubico	Article 19 & Yubico		Article 19 & Yubico	Article 19 & Yubico
(Calyx Village) Booth 9	Calyx institute	Calyx institute		Calyx institute	Calyx institute
Booth 10	VPN Generator: Get your own VPN Here	VPN Generator		DT Institute, VPN, Datacasting, Off Grid Communications	DT Institute
Booth 11	Horizontal	Horizontal		Preserving Truth, Reclaiming Power - How to use Save by OpenArchive to Get the Boot off Our Necks ✊🏿✊🏾🤘🏽✊	OpenArchive
(Circumvention Tech Village) Booth 12	Tor Project & Guardian Project	Tor Project & Guardian Project		Tor Project & Guardian Project	Tor Project & Guardian Project
Booth 13	Claw Back Your Data	Lockdown Systems		De|Center	Center]
Booth 14	Digital Defense Fund	Digital Defense Fund		Digital Defense Fund	Digital Defense Fund
Booth 15	Disrupt the Business of Harm: Make Surveillance-Tech Less Profitable	Coalition for Surveillance-Tech Accountability: Freedom House, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, & FIND		Mobile Forensics and Mobile Auditing with SocialTIC	SocialTIC Datávoros
Booth 16	IdHub: Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Credentials for Communities and Citizens	IdHub		Abrimos.info: TeseoETL Revolutionize your Data Management	Abrimos.info
(Open Measurement Gathering (OMG) Village) Booth 17	Measurement Lab and the Internet Quality Barometer	Measurement Lab		Censored Planet	Censored Planet
Booth 18	WITNESS' Deepfake Rapid Response Force and AI Detection for Human Rights Defenders	WITNESS		BIRN's Digital Rights Monitoring and Research on Southeast Europe	Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN)
Booth 19	Power to Voices	Oxfam Novib		Power to Voices	Oxfam Novib
(Regional Conversations A) Booth 21	Security Help Desk	Chequea.la		Urgent Action Fund Latin America and the Caribbean	Urgent Action Fund Latin America and the Caribbean
(Regional Conversations B) Booth 22	South Asia Village: Resisting Digital Injustice, Building Collective Resilience	Digital Rights Foundation		From Surveillance to Safety: Community-Driven Approaches to Digital Accountability in South Asia	Digital Rights Foundation
(Luminate Village) Booth 78 and 79	Effective Altruism: How Can We Respond?	Luminate		Effective Altruism: How Can We Respond?	Luminate
Booth 80	The ARISE Accountability Arcade: Feminist and Global South-Led Campaigns for Platform Accountability	Digital Empowerment Foundation - Project ARISE		Curious Shapes	Curious Shapes
(SWANA Village) Booth 81	Digital Citizenship Helpline: Community-Centered Digital Safety	Digital Citizenship		JOSA	JOSA
Booth 82	Palestine Booth	Solidarity Network of Palestinians and Allies		Palestine Booth	Solidarity Network of Palestinians and Allies

	Global Gathering After Hours
18:00 - 21:00	Karaoke!!! Our favorite pass time!

Partners

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Booth & Village Descriptions

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

Booth	Run by	Booth Description
Abrimos.info: TeseoETL revolutionize your data management	Abrimos.info	TeseoETL is an open-source, user-friendly data processing framework developed by Abrimos.info to simplify how journalists, researchers, and civic tech organizations access, transform, and utilize public data. Designed specifically with transparency and democratic accountability in mind, TeseoETL automates complex data workflows, enabling teams to quickly integrate data from multiple sources, streamline analysis, and generate strategic insights efficiently. Whether monitoring elections, tracking public procurement, or enhancing government transparency, TeseoETL makes it easy to turn raw, dispersed data into actionable knowledge. With a flexible design adaptable to diverse contexts across Latin America, TeseoETL helps organizations strengthen their digital infrastructure, empower communities with reliable data, and drive tangible impact toward more open and accountable governance.
Amnezia VPN	Amnezia VPN	Amnezia VPN is an open-source project that helps people bypass internet censorship and protect their privacy. Stop by to get an update on their tools and research into how censorship is evolving, especially in authoritarian contexts. while learning how they tracks and analyzes website blocks across different regions. Amnezia will also be creating an interactive space that connects art and technology. Stop by to Listen to a playlist of songs banned in Russia for political, queer, or cultural reasons; Browse books with real examples of censored or redacted content; Contribute your own stories of censorship in music, literature, media, or code from your country to build a shared archive of artistic and digital resistance.
Article19 & Yubico
BIRN's Digital Rights Monitoring and Research on Southeast Europe	Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN)	BIRN's booth will showcase the organisation's work on conducting systematic monitoring and in-depth research, with a strong focus on surveillance and censorship in the Western Balkans, as well as broader digital rights violations in ten Southeast Europe countries. The booth will also serve as an interactive community space for participants to engage with the team, be presented with, and ask questions on BIRN monitoring tools, methodologies, and recent research publications. Researchers, monitors, civil society representatives, and journalists are especially encouraged to participate
Claw Back Your Data	Lockdown Systems	Cyd is an open source project that helps users backup their data from X/Twitter, optionally migrate their tweets to Bluesky, and then delete what they want from X. The booth will demo how Cyd works, and assist attendees to delete or backup their data. (If you want to delete all your tweets, request an archive from X ahead of time.) The tech platforms that we all rely on are controlled by a tiny group of powerful billionaires who profit off our data, often selling it to AI companies and marketers. Learn about Cyd to claw back control of your data from Big Tech.
Disrupt the business of harm: Make Surveillance-Tech Less Profitable	Coalition for Surveillance-Tech Accountability: Freedom House, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, & FIND	Freedom House and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre ('BHRRC') have developed complementary reporting templates that civil society actors can utilize to hold abusive surveillance firms accountable for facilitating human rights violations. These forms can be filled out and submitted to governments and investors, to both expose and hold accountable the corporate actors responsible for facilitating harms. Come by to checkout these forms, and learn about their investigative research into the companies behind these technologies.
Censored Planet	Censored Planet	Censored Planet is a research lab that investigates how internet access is being shaped and restricted around the world. As censorship tactics become more complex and harder to detect, we develop new ways to study these systems and understand who they affect. We focus on internet measurement, network security, and privacy to produce research and tools that support journalists, civil society, and the broader internet freedom community.
Curious Shapes	Curious Shapes	Come and learn about some of the (many!) ways Curious Shapes has helped different projects, organizations and initiatives with communication, research and other strategic consultancy work.
Digital Citizenship Helpline: Community-Centered Digital Safety	Digital Citizenship	The Digital Citizenship Helpline is a support initiative that provides personalized digital safety assistance to women, activists, and at-risk communities across Tunisia and the Maghreb region. The booth highlights inclusive, community-led approaches to addressing cyberviolence, with tools, case insights, and real-world practices designed to make digital spaces safer and more accessible.
De|Center	De|Center	The De|Center works with decentered communities to make concrete changes to technology tools that address systemic injustice and advance human rights. They do research and documentation with marginalized and criminalized communities globally, and translate their insights into concrete recommendations for changes to tech products and features. Stop by and explore opportunities for collaboration.
DT Institute, VPN, Datacasting, Off Grid Communications	DT Institute	DT Institute will showcase their cutting edge VPN, a cool datacasting method to send content to millions even during internet shutdowns,. They will also demo a comprehensive information distribution and communications apparatus that they have put together for environments of high persistent threat that may be completely offline.
Effective Altruism: How Can We Respond?	Luminate	A 'tech oligarchy' is emerging in the US, with Big Tech's power and control over our governments, societies and lives being exposed like never before. Amidst the AI hype we're witnessing, business and political leaders are lauding the potential of AI to solve the world's most critical problems, moving the conversation away from addressing real-world harms of AI including discrimination, bias, and disinformation. Join for a drop-in session on effective altruism, the impact the movement is having on AI policy, and strategies for philanthropy and civil society to respond to this movement's incursion into the fields in which we work. This will follow an open space format where participants are free to join and leave the conversation as is useful for them.
From Surveillance to Safety: Community-Driven Approaches to Digital Accountability in South Asia	Digital Rights Foundation	This booth will serve as an interactive community space that explores South Asia's evolving digital landscape while serving as a meeting points for individuals working in digital rights in South Asia. Additionally, learn about DRF's Surveillance Accountability Initiative, which monitors and documents the use of surveillance technologies in Pakistan and the broader region, spotlighting the need for democratic oversight and transparency. Participants can also engage with DRF's Digital Security Helpline, South Asia's dedicated support service for online violence, and hear about anonymized case studies, digital safety games, and hands-on demos of DRF's protection tools and resources. DRF will also provide materials and mini-lessons on Platform Accountability, policy advocacy, content moderation, data governance, and AI governance.
Horizontal	Horizontal	Horizontal support activists, journalist and human right defenders with technology and trainings. Stop by their booth to see the demos of their two flagship products: a) - Tella (https://tella-app.org/): a free, open source tool to encrypt and hide files in your phone, and collect and share data even with limited or no internet connectivity or in the face of repression. b) Shira (https://shira.app/): a web app to help users develop the skills needed to identify and defeat phishing attacks on email and messaging apps.. They would also love to get your feedback and requests for their apps, and can share more deeply on how they support organizations and activists!
IdHub: Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Credentials for Communities and Citizens	IdHub	Since 2023, IdHub has developed a digital identity management system that pools and shares infrastructure for the management and cost-sharing of digital open content services. They addresses the need for more decentralized, verifiable, secure, privacy-respecting, and user-friendly ways to manage identity-related information for authentication, authorization, and accreditation. IdHub is open-source source and is developed by a community of activists. The primary technologies implemented include Decentralized Identifiers, Verifiable Credentials and OpenID Connect technologies within common credential schemas defined their communities. It follows the EBSI model. These technologies allow for creating a trust chain that brings significant benefits to our communities.Stop by to give your feedback and learn how to contribute.
JOSA	JOSA	JOSA will showcase their work in empowering civil society organizations with open-source digital security tools, resources, and training. Visitors can explore practical solutions for protecting data, and building safer online environments. Additionally, their team will be on hand to answer questions, and connect with potential collaborators.
Logic(s) Magazine	Logic(s) Magazine	As the first queer Black and Asian tech magazine, Logic(s) is committed to interrogating the technologies (re)making our world, providing thoughtful analysis and centering the voices under constant threat of erasure, and yet essential to thinking about technology. They will be distributing sample copies of their most recent issues, and offering individual and institutional subscriptions and memberships.
Measurement Lab and the Internet Quality Barometer	Measurement Lab	Founded in 2009, Measurement Lab (M-Lab) is an open platform for studying  Internet performance and neutrality over time. M-Lab recently completed the first phase of the Internet Quality Barometer project, and published the IQB Framework in June 2025. The IQB project seeks to redefine internet quality beyond the single metric of speed by using available data. As M-Lab continues the IQB project to build a tool to score Internet quality, we are also interested in exploring ways to score Internet freedom with existing data. Come by our booth and share your thoughts!
Mobile Forensics and Mobile Auditing with SocialTIC	SocialTIC Datávoros	Learn about the methodologies and resources SocialTic uses to perform mobile forensics and mobile application audits. These resources are designed to be open, collaborative, and community-oriented.
Psychological First Aid: Tools for Care and Connection by Vita Activa	Vita Activa	Participants will partake in guided discussion, role-play, and reflective practices to be introduced to Psychological First Aid (PFA) - tools for care and connection created by Vita Activa. Learn how to recognize distress, offer immediate support, and connect peers with further resources. This booth will provide opportunities to participants to engage in guided discussions, role-play, and reflective practices so they can obtain concrete skills they can apply in spaces, activist contexts, and everyday life.
Open Source Design Collective	Open Source Design	Come and learn about what the volunteers at Open Source Design (OSD) do, and what they have supported over the collective's 10+years of existing. They will also offer a 'Design/Usability/UX/UI clinic' where you can bring your open source projects to speak about your design and usability needs. Questions they can support you with include: How to plan for a design project in OSS? Where is their funding available? What does openness and transparency look like in design? How can an OSS project learn from what other OSD designers in the network have produced? And of course, how to get involved as a maintainer or contributor as we evolve and grow the practice of design in OSS.
Operator Foundation	Operator Foundation	Operator Foundation, which develops open source software and hardware to support Internet freedom globally, will showcase open source secure communications hardware they have developed in the last 10 years. This includes tools for encrypted communication using satellites and radios during complete Internet shutdowns, as well as a tool developed to defeat the AI-based voiceprint identification being used to stop journalists from calling sources.
Palestine Booth	Solidarity Network of Palestinians and Allies	As the  US-Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and across Palestine is reaching its two year mark, we continue to witness Western powers' unconditional material support for it.  In this booth, participants can learn about how to understand the genocide, the 77 years of ethnic cleansing and occupation, and explore how to engage their work more meaningfully in this topic. This space will also honor the lives of Palestinian martyrs, raise funds for trusted partners in Gaza, and run numerous Tatreez (embroidery) sessions to inspire conversations about solidarity through collective weaving. Most importantly, this cause will be intersected with other contexts of digital military warfare, to be in solidarity and collectively imagine what resistance against tech-assisted imperialism can look like.
Power to Voices	Oxfam Novib	Power to Voices is a digital platform designed with and for activists, movements, and rights defenders to connect, learn, collaborate, and organize in a space that centers safety, inclusion, and collective power amidst the increasing risky digital organizing environment. It's where communities of practice live, campaigns grow, and ideas are documented and shared. From learning spaces and resource hubs to group discussions and action planning. A home for sustained organizing in the digital age
Preserving Truth, Reclaiming Power - How to use Save by OpenArchive to get the boot off our necks ✊🏿✊🏾🤘🏽✊	OpenArchive	People armed with mobile devices are history's first responders, documenting world events and amassing evidentiary records of injustice. SAVE by OpenArchive helps them Secure(ly) Archive,Verify, and Encrypt their crucial evidence. This will be a participatory demo where participants can foster strategic partnerships with those interested in learning how to use SAVE and other tactics to help their communities safely record and preserve their evidentiary media.
Secure Storyteller Network: Protecting Stories, Protecting Storytellers	Secure Storyteller Network	A meditation sound bath will be held from 16:30–17:30. Limited spaces available. Please contact SSN by 15:30 to reserve a spot, or arrive early. This interactive booth offers hands-on digital security support tailored for filmmakers, artists, and content creators working in high-risk environments. Drop by with your questions, hear frontline stories, set up client-side encryption tools on your phone, and design your own creative protection plan. Most uniquely, pause for a mini sound bath with aTibetan singing bowl-let calmness stabilise resilience and help turn vulnerability into strength.
Security Help Desk	Chequea.la	Chequea.la is a website security help line for Latin American media outlets and CSOs. They will showcase their main tool and resources, and invite participants to talk about web security and how to improve it by sharing experiences and best practices.
South Asia Village: Resisting Digital Injustice, Building Collective Resilience	Digital Rights Foundation	The South Asia Village booth is a collaborative regional space spotlighting community-led responses to digital authoritarianism, shrinking civic space, and corporate impunity across South Asia. Curated by Digital Rights Foundation and Digital Accountability Collective South Asia (DACSA), the South Asia Village will also serve as a collaborative hub to facilitate knowledge exchange and solidarity among South Asian activists, researchers, and technologists. Stop by to learn about South Asian initiatives focused on a wide breadth of topics including spyware accountability, digital security support, platform accountability, AI governance and data justice, among others. The booth will include materials and contributions from regional partners such as Hashtag Generation (Sri Lanka) and Digitally Right (Bangladesh), showcasing shared experiences and strategic differences across national contexts. Additionally, findings from upcoming regional research will be presented.
The ARISE Accountability Arcade: Feminist and Global South-Led Campaigns for Platform Accountability	Digital Empowerment Foundation - Project ARISE	The ARISE (Accountability and Responsibility in South's Ecosystems) Accountability Arcade is a feminist, Global South-led booth showcasing grounded, community-driven work on platform accountability. ARISE is a network of 50+ renowned organisations from across the Global South working on digital rights, governance, and justice. Digital Empowerment Foundation, the voluntary host of this year's ARISE Secretariat, is proposing this booth on behalf of the community. Through campaign displays, research spotlights, and interactive activities, ARISE members will present how communities across the South are confronting platform harms, algorithmic bias, and digital exclusion. It's a space to exchange strategies, share experiences, and build collective visions for fairer, more accountable digital ecosystems.
Urgent Action Fund Latin America and the Caribbean	Urgent Action Fund Latin America and the Caribbean	Learn more about Urgent Action Fund Latin America and the Caribbean, a regional feminist fund which contributes to the sustainability and strengthening of activists and their movements, offering quick and agile support in situations of risk and opportunity They support the resistances, struggles and demands of the defenders in the transformation of injustice and inequality systems, putting feminist integral protection and care in the center. They understand that in order to carry out our work, it is vital to think about feminist digital infrastructures from the South that are not privative and that allow us to put care at the center of technologies.
VPN Generator: Get your own VPN here	VPN Generator	VPN Generator lets you run your own VPN hub - you control the connection and decide who joins. It's a VPN for your crew, on your terms. Check out this booth and try two live demos: VPN Generator, where you distribute access to others, protected by a six-word passphrase only you ever see; and VPN Socket, a paid, influencer-branded VPN for instant personal use. See how easy it is to connect and help others bypass censorship and access a safe, private internet.
WITNESS' Deepfake Rapid Response Force and AI Detection for Human Rights Defenders	WITNESS	WITNESS is known for it's AI detection trainings, either catered to fact-checkers, journalists and other civil society involved in elections, or with civil society facing information environments needing in these skills. The training sessions cover topics such as the capabilities and evolution of generative AI techniques, use of synthetic media in the context of elections, current AI detection approaches and introduction to the work of the Deepfakes Rapid Response Force. Stop by this booth to learn about the harms and benefits in relying on AI detection tools, how to incorporate tools into the fact-checking pipeline, and other research and learnings from the Deep Fake Rapid Response Force.