GG26SandBox

GG Agenda SandBox

This page is ONLY to coordinate between TCU and participants leading circles, booths, and workshops. The official agenda of the Global Gathering 2026 can be found here.

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO CHECK OUT your activities description at the bottom..


Sept. 3	Times	Sept. 4	Sept. 5	Sept 6
Pre-Registration will run from 16:00 - 20:00	9:00 - 12:00	Satellite Events and Workshops Security for Beginners Workshop (9:00 - 11:30) Interactive TFGBV Networking Salon (10:00 to 11:30) Break into the Firewall: A Role-Playing Game (10:00 to 11:30) Demystifying End-to-End Encryption ... So You can Better Evaluate Tools for Your Threat Model (10:00 to 11:30)	Satellite Events and Workshops Making Sense of Chaos: Lessons Direct from Washington DC (9:00 - 12:00) Journalism Security Salon (9:00 - 12:00) Latin American Breakfast by FAULAC (9:00 to 12:00) Hands-on Internet Shutdown Salon: Building Off-Grid Communication Networks and Low-Fi Approaches (9:00 to 12:00)	Satellite Events and Workshops The Costs of Protection: Turning GG 2024 Insights into an Agenda for Global South Sovereignty (11:00 to 12:30) From Activist to Consultant: How to Build a Revenue-Generating Consulting Career (11:00 to 12:30) Agentic AI for Activism: Building Local, Sovereign Tools for Human Rights and Social Justice (11:00 to 12:30) Experience the Shutdown! A Role-Playing Training Simulation (11:00 to 12:30)
	9:00 - 12:00	Wellbeing Morning Activities Catalyst Coaching Group (10:00 to 11:30)	Wellbeing Morning Activities Sound Bath Grounding 🔔🌿 (9:30 to 11:00)	Wellbeing Morning Activities GG 5K Run!! 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♀️
	12:00 - 13:00	Networking Hour	Networking Hour	Networking Hour
	13:00 - 18:00	Circles, Villages, Meetups and Booths	Circles, Villages, Meetups and Booths	Circles, Villages, Meetups and Booths
	18:00 - 21:00	The Drag Show: Valencia Drive	Karaoke Extravaganza	DJ Boom Boom Boom

September 4

	12:00 - 13:00 Networking Hour Come to the venue to have lunch and explore our amazing food vendors, while meeting new folks. In addition, some meetups will be taking place during this time as well. Do you not have to be part of a meetup to join us!
Where	Meetup
Venue / xxx	Africa Meetup
Venue / xxx	Asia Meetup
Venue / xxx	Eastern European and Central Caucasus Meetup
Venue / xxx	Latin America Meetup
Venue / xxx	North America Meetup
Venue / xxx	Russia Meetup
Venue / xxx	SWANA Meetup
Venue / xxx	Western Europe Meetup

	Circles and Villages \| Sept 4
	13:30 - 14:30	15:00 - 16:00	16:30 - 17:30
Circle 1	Researchers Meetup	Age Verification and Digital Identity Systems: The Mapping and Actors (Part 1)	The Future of DSA: A Global Perspective
Circle 2	Journalism Meetup	Cross-Borders Storytelling: Device Searches, Metadata, and Collective Preparation	We See, We Archive, We Remember: Preserving Digital Evidence Against Erasure
Circle 3	Policy Advocates Meetup	Digital Transnational Repression: Connecting Across Regions	Digital Authoritarianism and Forced Exile: Mapping Experiences and Strategies
Circle 4	Participatory Defense Meetup	How to Design and Build Digital Infrastructure that Works for Your Community	Criminalization Is a Design Condition: Building Most Resilient Tech from the Margins
Circle 5	Influence Operations Investigators Meetup	On the Horizon: AI-enabled Technology and its Gendered Harms	Leaving Big Tech: From Common Blockers to Collective Solutions
Circle 6	OSINT in the Open Meetup	Mobilizing Around Convention 193: The First Global Treaty Establishing Labor Standards for the Platform Economy	Creative Refusal: Experimental Artistic Methods to Radically Refuse Surveillance
Circle 7
Offsite Meetups

	13:30 - 14:30	15:00 - 16:00	16:30 - 17:30
Calyx Village	reserved	reserved	Clawing Back Your Data in the Age of Social Surveillance
APC Village
Digital Security	Security Practioners Meetup	Beyond Borders: How Authoritarian States Use Digital Tactics to Target Diaspora and People in Exile	Auditing AI on the questions that matter to you: learn a simple, repeatable method for testing how LLMs handle politically contested topics.
Circumvention Tech	Technologist Meetup	MANTA: Measuring Tunnel Health in Censored Environments	Working Around Max: Brainstorming Civil-Society Resistance to Russia's State Messaging App
Spyware Village	Spyware Researchers Meetup
Secure Communications		How to Approach Community-Rriven Development Beyond Git	Secure Messaging in 2026 and What Comes Next
Regional		15 Things We Learned from Auditing 15 Brazilian Media Organizations	Advancing Collective Responses to Mis- and Disinformation in the Iran and Palestine Contexts
Queer Rights Village		Tech Justice Promenade: Gathering of LGBTQI+ and Allies	Inappropriate Bodies: Sex Workers & Queer People Pushed to the Digital Margins
Ecosystem Resilience		U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights: Impacts, Challenges, and Opportunities	How Ops Staff Can Stay Afloat During the Floods

		Booths \| Sept 4 You can find detailed Booths 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".
		13:00 - 15:00		15:30 - 17:30
Location	Booth Size (in meters)	Name	Run by	Name	Run by
APC Village Booth 3	3 x 6 Deep	Next generation Internet - Zero (NGI0) ecosystem	APC	Community Centred Connectivity	APC
Booth 4a	3 x 6 Deep			Tumpa	Tumpa
Booth 4b	3 x 6 Deep			Digital Security Helpline - Safety Clinic	Access Now
Booth 5	3 x 3	Dash Chat	Dash Chat	Gossip Messenger - Your Messaging App Leaks. Change My Mind	Gossip Messenger
Queer Rights Village Booth 6	3 x 3	Queer Rights Village		Queer Rights Village
Booth 7	3 x 6 Wide			Osservatorio Nessuno OdV	Osservatorio Nessuno OdV
Booth 8	3 x 3			Help! Where's my newsletter?	First Draft Media
Secure Comms Village Booth 9	3 x 3 Two Windows	Air Messenger	Phoenix R&D/Air Messenger	How is your Organization Using Secure Messaging Apps? What's Still Missing?	Phoenix R&D/Air Messenger & OKthanks
Booth 10	3 x 3			The AI Risk Wall: What Civil Society Is Actually Worried About	Tecer Digital
Booth 11	3 x 3			Horizontal	Horizontal
Booth 12	3 x 6 Wide	User Experience Design & Accessibility Clinic	Superbloom Design, Kumquat, CoRD UX & Discovery Lab	User Experience Design & Accessibility Clinic	Superbloom Design, Kumquat, CoRD UX & Discovery Lab
Booth 13	3 x 3			Let's Grow Living Libraries	Connecting Current Digital Library System - Global South Alliance
Booth 14	3 x 3			CADE - Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment	Diplo
Booth 15	3 x 3			Toosheh & Friends	NetFreedom Pioneershttp://toosheh.org/ https://tooshehstar.com/en/home/
Booth 16	3 x 3			Holistic Security Practitioners - Steps towards Community and Updating the Manual	Holistic Protection Collective
Booth 17	3 x 3			po1ytech 𝑥 IONAFLOW - Censorship Circumvention and Tooling for Journalists	po1ytech / IONAFLOW https://plmr.ph/ & https://newsmonitor.app/
Booth 18	3 x 3			Jordan Open Source Association (JOSA)	Jordan Open Source Association
Booth 19	3 x 3 Two Windows			Rise Against Big Tech Coalition Booth	Rise Against Big Tech Coalition
Booth 21	3 x 6 Wide			MANTA and LEAP Encrytpion Access Project	LEAP Encryption Access Project
Circumvention Tech Village Booth 22	3 x 6 Wide	The Onion Odyssey Cryptographic Universe	Tor Project & Guardian Project (Orbot, Onion Browser)	The Onion Odyssey Cryptographic Universe	Tor Project & Guardian Project (Orbot, Onion Browser)
Spyware Village Booth 57	3 x 6 Deep Two Windows
Calyx Village Booth 79	3 x 3 Two Windows	Calyx Institute	Calyx Institute CalyxOS	Calyx Institute	Calyx Institute CalyxOS
Booth 80	3 x 3			Tech for Palestine - Building Ethical Alternatives for Palestinian Liberation and Digital Sovereignty	Tech for Palestine
Regional Perspectives Village Booth 81	3 x 6 Deep			Venezuela - Conexión Segura y Libre	CSL - Conexión Segura y Libre https://vesinfiltro.org/ https://noticiassinfiltro.com/
Booth 82	3 x 6 Deep	Palestine Booth	Independent	Palestine Booth	Independent

September 5

	12:00 - 13:00 Networking Hour Come to the venue to have lunch and explore our amazing food vendors, while meeting new folks. In addition, some meetups will be taking place during this time as well. Do you not have to be part of a meetup to join us!
Where	Meetup
	Caribbean + Diaspora Meet Up
	South Asian Digital Liberation Meetup
	Francophone Africa Meetup

	Circles and Villages \| Sept 5
Circle 1	Internet Shutdown Contingency Planning Help Desk (+ shutdown circumvention trainer meetup)	Running and Using Local LLMs With Hardware You Already Own	Backing Up for the Machine? Independent Data Preservation in the Age of AI Scraping
Circle 2	Co-Designing Practical AI Bias Detection Tools with Journalists in the Global South	Knowing What You're Looking for: AI Slop and OSINT Work in Conflict Zones	Algorithmic Harms & Activist Resilience: Lessons from the Netherlands and Spain
Circle 3	Spill the Tea! What Digital Threats Are You Seeing?	When the World Moves On: Breaking the Silence After Crackdowns and Elections
Circle 4	Deleted, Demoted, Disappeared: Now What?		How to Stop Social Media Companies from Financing Threat Actors
Circle 5	Exploring Models and Best Practices of Building Sustainable Tech Collective Infrastructure
Circle 6		You Own Infrastructure! Great! How to Protect it from the Bad of the Internet With the Help of Scenarios
Circle 7
Offsite Meetups

	13:30 - 14:30	15:00 - 16:00	16:30 - 17:30
Calyx Village	reserved		reserved
Digital Security	Living in the Crosshairs: Operational Survival Under Ubiquitous Surveillance	Driving Action From Collective Alerting	Starlink Best Practices
Circumvention Tech	Strengthening Rapid Response Efforts to Censorship Events	Lights in the Tunnel: Co-Creating an Accountability Framework for VPN Transparency
Spyware Village
APC VIllage	Navigating AI Use and Ethics in CSOs
Ecosystem Resilience	Practical Security and Safety Strategies for Events and Community Spaces
Latin American Village	Hackear y Crear: Cesafíos y Estrategias Feministas Para Enfrentar Las Infraestructuras Tecnopolíticas Que Amenazan a las Democracias en América Latina	Illegal Trade in Personal Data: Presentation of a Report and Stories to Raise Awareness	Digital Territory: Rethinking Security for Environmental Defenders in Latin America
Regional		Holistic Security for Immigration Rapid Response Work in the US
Secure Communications	Can Signal Become Phishing-Resistant?	What Does a Girl Gotta Do Around Here to Get People to Download the Tool Before the Internet Shuts Down?	Reserved

		Booths \| Sept 5 You can find detailed Booths 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".
		13:00 - 15:00		15:30 - 17:30
Location	Booth Size (in meters)	Name	Run by	Name	Run by
APC Village Booth 3	3 x 6 Deep	Local Services for Communities	APC	WRP and FIRN ecosystem	APC
Booth 4a	3 x 6 Deep	Cry to the Water: AI as Ancestral Intelligence	GLOBAL DIGITAL FUTURES LTD.	Cry to the Water: AI as Ancestral Intelligence	GLOBAL DIGITAL FUTURES LTD.
Booth 4b	3 x 6 Deep	Digital Citizenship Helpline: Emergency Digital Security Support	Digital Citizenship Organization	Digital Security Helpline - Safety Clinic	Access Now
Booth 5	3 x 3	Dash Chat	Dash Chat	Lockdown Systems	Lockdown Systems
Regional Persepectives Village Booth 6	3 x 3	RightsLine- Navigating Digital Security and Securing Rights Online	Software Freedom Law Center, India RightsLine	Unveiling Cyber-Surveillance - Case Studies from South Asia	Digital Rights Foundation
Booth 7	3 x 6 Wide	Amnezia VPN	Amnezia VPN	Amnezia VPN	Amnezia VPN
Booth 8	3 x 3	MaadiX	Maadix	Cloud68.co - Open Source Managed Hosting for Values-Aligned Teams	Cloud68.co
Secure Comms Village Booth 9	3 x 3 Two Windows	Air Messenger	Phoenix R&D/Air Messenger	How is your Organization Using Secure Messaging Apps? What's Still Missing?	Phoenix R&D/Air Messenger & OKthanks
Booth 10	3 x 3	Sex Work and Deepfakes - A Report by ESWA	ESWA	AI Accountability Network	Pulitzer Center
Booth 11	3 x 3	25 years of Greenhost: introducing Steward Owned Infrastructure and SoSuite	Greenhost	25 years of Greenhost: introducing Steward Owned Infrastructure and SoSuite	Greenhost
Booth 12	3 x 6 Wide	Human Constanta & Friends: Digital Rights, Cybersecurity, and Pancakes	Human Constanta Digital Freedoms Lab Legal Hub Cyber Beaver Legal Club
Booth 13	3 x 3	Open-Source Grants Management	Simula Lab LTD	The De\|Center Booth	De\|Center
Booth 14	3 x 3
Booth 15	3 x 3	Nasnet Panel: Building a Digital Infrastructure that Can't Be Shut Down	Holistic Resilience NASNET Connect	ShoutSMS - An Encrypted SMS Solution for Internet Outages	Collaborative Futures \| Gisa Group
Booth 16	3 x 3	Open Briefing Holistic Security Support	Open Briefing	Digital Security Collective	Digital Security Collective
Booth 17	3 x 3	Bodies, Data, Territories: Transhackfeminisms from Abya Yala	Universitat de Girona and Técnicas RudasColectiva Ada HackFem Ai - YouTube HackFem Ai	From Shutdowns to Disinformation: Frontline Data for Safer Digital Spaces	Digihub Africa
Booth 18	3 x 3	DATAGOV Lab: Transfeminist Digital Care & Infrastructural Inequalities	University of Amsterdam, DATAGOV	DATAGOV Lab: Transfeminist Digital Care & Infrastructural Inequalities	University of Amsterdam, DATAGOV
Booth 19	3 x 3 Two Windows	RightsCon On The Road	Access Now/RightsCon	RightsCon On The Road	Access Now/RightsCon
Booth 21	3 x 6 Wide	Outline	Outline	Spreading Butter in the Wild (This is a structured activity. Be sure to arrive at the booth at 15:30 to participate)	Guardian Project
Circumvention Tech Village Booth 22	3 x 6 Wide	The Onion Odyssey Cryptographic Universe	Tor Project & Guardian Project (Orbot, Onion Browser)	The Onion Odyssey Cryptographic Universe	Tor Project & Guardian Project (Orbot, Onion Browser)
Spyware Village Booth 57	3 x 6 Deep Two Windows
Calyx Village Booth 79	3 x 3 Two Windows	Calyx Institute	Calyx Institute CalyxOS	Calyx Institute	Calyx Institute CalyxOS
Booth 80	3 x 3	Library Freedom Project	Library Freedom Project	Open Access Curation Lab	University of the People Open Access Week
Regional Perspectives Village Booth 81	3 x 6 Deep	Abrimos.info: Open Data Tools for Democracy in Latin America	Abrimos.info	Colnodo: Empowering Communities Through Technology	Colnodo
Booth 82	3 x 6 Deep	Palestine Booth	Independent	Palestine Booth	Independent

September 6

	12:00 - 13:00 Networking Hour On the first day of the event, we will be featuring Regional Meetups during our networking hour.
Where	Meetup

	Circles and Villages \| Sept 6
Circle 1	Age Verification Systems and Digital Identity Systems: The Collaborations and Strategies (Part 2)	Intergenerational Conversation: Resisting Digital Authoritarianism Across Contexts
Circle 2	Mapping the Militarisation of Tech	AI Disinformation in Pre-Election Contexts Across The Global South
Circle 3	Moderation, Maintenance, and Money: The Care Work of Community-Governed Tech	Your Email, Delivered! Lets start a Discussion on Email Compliance and Deliverability
Circle 4	Secure and Private Design and User Research for Human Rights Technology	Building Stronger Digital Security Communities: A Conversation Between Moldova, Ukraine and Beyond
Circle 5	Deeply Rooted: Co-Creative and Relational Practices for Safeguarding (Digital) Cultural and Natural Heritage	Care for the docs! Challenges and Concerns within Digital Security Documentation Community
Circle 6	Do You Sleep at Night? How to Not Wear Out Your Sysadmin
Circle 7
Offsite Meetups

	13:30 - 14:30	15:00 - 16:00	16:30 - 17:30
Calyx Village	reserved		reserved
Circumvention Tech
Digital Security	Games for Digital Rights & Security Education	Availability Over Confidentiality: Digital Security Lessons from Ukraine's Blackouts	Hands off my stuff! Tactics and strategies against physical device searches
Spyware Village
APC Village
Ecosystem Resilience	Closing the Loop: Lessons from Sunsetting an Organization	What Does a Win Look Like in Our Ecosystem?
Regional
Regional
Regional

		Booths \| Sept 6 You can find detailed Booths 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".
		13:00 - 15:00		15:30 - 17:30
Location	Booth Size (meters)	Name	Run by	Name	Run by
APC Village Booth 3	3 x 6 Deep	Next generation Internet - Zero (NGI0) ecosystem	APC	Celebrate good time come on	APC
Booth 4a	3 x 6 Deep
Booth 4b	3 x 6 Deep	Secure Storytelling Help Desk	Secure Storyteller Network SRS - Spring Revolution Security	Digital Security Helpline - Safety Clinic	Access Now
Booth 5	3 x 3	Bots & Bytes: Dark Factory Game	Independent	Digital Rights Game Creators & Players	Digital Rights Game Creators
Regional Persepectives Village Booth 6	3 x 3	anoni.net Hub: Sinophone Asia-Pacific Networked Freedom	anoni.net
Booth 7	3 x 6 Wide	Amnezia VPN	Amnezia VPN	Amnezia VPN	Amnezia VPN
Booth 8	3 x 3	Portuguese Sovereign Tech Demos with Tertúlia das Curiosas	Tertúlia das Curiosas
Ecosystem Resilience Village Booth 9	3 x 3 Two Windows	One Year After International Funding Cuts: A Showcase of Grassroots Realities in Vietnam.	Vietnam Rise
Booth 10	3 x 3	Cofacts.ai: Multi-Agent AI for Human-Centric Fact-Checking	Cofacts
Booth 11	3 x 3	25 years of Greenhost: introducing Steward Owned Infrastructure and SoSuite	Greenhost	25 years of Greenhost: introducing Steward Owned Infrastructure and SoSuite	Greenhost
Booth 12	3 x 6 Wide	Human Constanta & Friends: Digital Rights, Cybersecurity, and Pancakes	Human Constanta Digital Freedoms Lab Legal Hub Cyber Beaver Legal Club
Booth 13	3 x 3	Open-Source Grants Management	Simula Lab LTD
Booth 14	3 x 3			CADE - Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment	Diplo
Booth 15	3 x 3	Nasnet Panel: Building a Digital Infrastructure that Can't Be Shut Down	Holistic Resilience NASNET Connect
Booth 16	3 x 3	Unpacking wireless tech with the FADe Project	FADe Project
Booth 17	3 x 3	Behind the Block: Exiled Media, Circumvention & the Fight for Audiences	The Fix Media
Booth 18	3 x 3	TF GBV Knowledge Hub & English-Arabic Glossary	Jordan Open Source Association Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TF GBV) Glossary TF GBV Knowledge Hub
Booth 19	3 x 3 Two Windows	Rise Against Big Tech coalition booth	Rise Against Big Tech Coalition
Booth 21	3 x 6 Wide	Lantern	Lantern by Brave New Software Project, Inc Unbounded Lantern Github
Circumvention Tech Village Booth 22	3 x 6 Wide	The Onion Odyssey Cryptographic Universe	Tor Project & Guardian Project (Orbot, Onion Browser)	The Onion Odyssey Cryptographic Universe	Tor Project & Guardian Project (Orbot, Onion Browser)
Spyware Village Booth 57	3 x 6 Deep Two Windows
Calyx Village Booth 79	3 x 3 Two Windows	Calyx Institute	Calyx InstituteCalyxOS	Calyx Institute	Calyx InstituteCalyxOS
Booth 80	3 x 3	*Reclaim Media Sovereignty and Safeguard Evidence with Save* by OpenArchive**	OpenArchive
Regional Perspectives Village Booth 81	3 x 6 Deep	Revista Abismo: Stories Beyond the News Cycle	Revista Abismo
Booth 82	3 x 6 Deep	Palestine Booth	Independent	Palestine Booth	Independent

Circle and Meetup Descriptions

Circle and/or Meetup Title	Description

15 Things We Learned from Auditing 15 Brazilian Media Organizations	What happens when 15 newcomers to the SAFETAG auditing methodologies are trained to perform their own assessments and then hit the road to audit 15 independent Brazilian media organisations? Join an implementer, two auditors, and a funder who will share their experience as a starting point for the discussion of what happened when a structured auditor-training model met the messy realities of small, resource-constrained newsrooms. Participants will share their similar experiences using SAFETAG and any best practices or lessons they also picked up along the way.
Age Verification and Digital Identity Systems: The Mapping and Actors (Part 1)	This is part 1 of a two part Circle focused on Age Verification and digital Identify Systems Digital Identity systems and age verification requirements are being rolled out in many countries across the world. In this Circle, participants highlight the work of the digital rights organizations and coalitions working in this area, as well as mapping what people are seeing on the ground in different regions. Together, they will explore how privacy-washing appears in technical and policy proposals, how these systems function in practice, and the impacts they have on communities—particularly those most at risk. Additionally, they will share research, including hearing from Karisma's research on the Colombian digital ID card developed by IDEMIA - the same company that produces the EU digital wallet. They will also have an opportunity to connect with members of the HR41D coalition, a network of human rights defenders actively working on digital identity and age verification issues. This CIrcle will be followed up by a CIrcle on day three, focused on strategizing collectively around what harm-reduction pathways civil society and technologists can push for.
Age Verification Systems and Digital Identity Systems: The Collaborations and Strategies (Part 2)	This is part 2 of a two part Circle focused on Age Verification and digital Identify Systems This Circle focuses on age verification, the harm-reduction pathways that civil society and technologists can advance, and how to respond to the narratives of privacy and safety that are often used to justify these systems. Participants will identify opportunities for cross-regional collaboration and co-develop strategies for engaging with the evolving digital identity ecosystem, with attention to both policy advocacy and the design, deployment, and implementation of technical systems.
AI Disinformation in Pre-Election Contexts Across The Global South	AI-generated disinformation is becoming a defining feature of general election cycles across the Global South, and without governance frameworks in place, the integrity of electoral processes is compromised. Drawing on emerging research in the context of Kenya's 2027 election, this circle brings together defenders, journalists, and researchers to map where policy is failing, share frontline experiences, and identify cross-regional pressure points for collective advocacy.
Algorithmic Harms & Activist Resilience: Lessons from the Netherlands and Spain	This circle builds a critical conversation around a new research project that examines how AI-embedded systems in the Netherlands and Spain are actively harming social justice activism, specifically targeting migrant rights, Palestine solidarity, gender justice, anti-racism, and climate work amidst rising far-right polarization. Participants will share and analyze how these algorithmic restrictions may be showing up in their contexts, and collectively workshop potential strategies to counteract them.
Advancing Collective Responses to Mis- and Disinformation in the Iran and Palestine Contexts	Mis- and disinformation surrounding the human rights situations in Iran and Palestine continue to shape public understanding, influence policy debates, and affect the work of the civil society. This circle will bring together journalists, researchers, technologists, and advocates, lawyers to discuss shared challenges, identify gaps, and exchange strategies for responding to these information threats. Together, participants will explore opportunities for collaboration and develop ideas for collective action and future coordination.
Auditing AI on the Questions that Matter to You: Learn a Simple, Repeatable Method for Testing How LLMs Handle Politically Contested Topics	AI models differ meaningfully in whether they mirror or resist state-aligned framing. In this hands-on Circle, participants run live tests across multiple models and leave with a reproducible audit methodology using AI analysis tool AIdas. The goal is to help participants replicate and extend an AI research methodology in their own contexts.
Availability Over Confidentiality: Digital Security Lessons from Ukraine's Blackouts	During Ukraine's long blackouts, supporting journalists and human rights defenders meant constantly looking for compromises between availability and security. Being able to work at all often came first, but security stayed part of every decision, and the work never stopped - we just had to adapt. This Circle shares real, hands-on lessons on backup power, staying online, and the hard choices teams had to make.
Africa Meetup	Connect with individuals actively working in the African region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse African projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Africa digital rights community.
Asia Meetup	Connect with individuals actively working in the Asia region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse Asian projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Asian digital rights community.
Backing Up for the Machine? Independent Data Preservation in the Age of AI Scraping	As governments delete public datasets and archives scramble to rescue them, a new tension appears: the data we work hard to preserve becomes training fuel for AI. The Internet Archive is being scraped at scale, Mozilla's Data Collective draws on rescued datasets, and the line between "saving knowledge" and "feeding the machine" blurs. This circle gathers people who hold the problem (organizations whose data is at risk) and people who hold the practice (archivists and infrastructure builders) to compare backup protocols - independent versus institutional - and confront what we are really preserving for, and for whom.
Beyond Borders: How Authoritarian States Use Digital Tactics to Target Diaspora and People in Exile	Across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and beyond, authoritarian governments are using increasingly sophisticated digital tactics to surveil, harass, and discredit activists and organizations operating outside their borders. This Circle draws on documented cases from Belarus, including fake Telegram bots, AI-generated deepfakes, fabricated hack narratives, and financial doxxing, as entry points for a broader cross-regional exchange about how these tactics are evolving and what patterns emerge when you look across different country contexts.
Building Stronger Digital Security Communities: A Conversation Between Moldova, Ukraine and Beyond	Civil society organizations across the world are facing increasingly complex digital threats, yet many countries are still developing the local communities and partnerships needed to provide sustainable digital security support. Moldova and Ukraine offer complementary perspectives: Ukraine has built a strong digital security community through years of responding to cyber threats, while Moldova is strengthening collaboration between civil society and digital security practitioners to build local capacity. This Circle will bring together participants to discuss how digital security communities can grow through collaboration, peer learning and cross-border partnerships. Rather than presenting a single model, the discussion will invite participants to compare experiences, identify common challenges and explore practical opportunities for regional and international cooperation.
Can Signal Become Phishing-Resistant?	Targeted phishing campaigns against journalists, activists, and civil society increasingly abuse legitimate Signal account recovery and device-linking workflows rather than exploiting software vulnerabilities. In this session, we will examine the current threat landscape and explore potential improvements to account security that could significantly reduce the risk of remote account takeover.
Caribbean + Diaspora Meet Up	This meetup brings together human rights defenders from the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora community. We will discuss how we can create ""digital safety in numbers"" across our region and share examples and stories of our digital rights experience. We will also explore mutual support and collaborative resources.
Care for the docs! Challenges and Concerns within Digital Security Documentation Community	Digital security documentation is core to the community strategies to protect HRDs and at-risk groups under surveillance, threats and attacks. Documentation maintainers now compete with AI-generated content to deliver accurate, reliable, and localized information. What critical topics and attack trends need further documentation? Is the community willing to use AI to streamline maintenance tasks and, if so, how to safeguard content's accuracy?
Clawing Back Your Data in the Age of Social Surveillance	Participants will discuss what it means to participate in social media and online networks in 2026. Together, they will explore questions such as: Under what circumstances is sharing information on the social—and non-social—web important? What does deletion mean in a digital context, and when is it critical? They will also examine the power of backing up and preserving information as a form of speaking truth to power in digital spaces where surveillance, censorship, and platform control can be used to shape, edit, or erase narratives from critical voices.
Co-Designing Practical AI Bias Detection Tools with Journalists in the Global South	AI tools are increasingly being used to generate and reshape news content, creating new and urgent challenges for fact checking and bias mitigation, especially during election periods. This Circle will explore how journalists, fact checkers, and technologists can collaboratively design practical tools to detect cultural and contextual bias in AI generated stories, with a focus on supporting election coverage in low resource and multilingual environments. Participants will share experiences from their contexts and give direct input to help shape an early prototype of Bias Lens, an open source fact checking tool being developed through Baraza Media Lab as part of a Mozilla Fellowship.
Closing the Loop: Lessons from Sunsetting an Organization	Using our own recent decision to sunset the Center for Digital Resilience as a starting point, this circle will look at what goes into sunsetting an organization. How do you decide it’s time? How do you plan for it? Come with your own questions or experiences: this is meant to be as much a conversation as a case study.
Creative Refusal: Experimental Artistic Methods to Radically Refuse Surveillance	This circle brings together people interested in exploring artistic methods to challenge surveillance in public spaces, online, during protests, and in everyday life. Participants will engage with low-tech creative practices, techniques, and visual imagery that can be used to resist surveillance and demand structural transformation. The circle will also raise critical questions about when and why visibility is used to document injury. The conversation draws its starting examples from Queer African communities: Adventures of the Witch's Garden (AWG), a game built from stories of how queer Africans navigate tech surveillance, and Making Space for the Unkind, a speculative visual novel that interrogates the systems sustaining both digital infrastructures and extractive economies.
Criminalization Is a Design Condition: Building Most Resilient Tech from the Margins	Design from the Margins starts from a simple premise: the people most targeted by surveillance, censorship, policing, borders, and platform abuse are the people who can teach us how to design and build safer technology for everyone. Participants will discuss how criminalization can be used as a design condition and the understandings being built into it - turning lived harms and human rights documentation into concrete requirements for surveillance-resistant tools, safer defaults, alternative infrastructure, and tech that serves people, not power.
Cross-Borders Storytelling: Device Searches, Metadata, and Collective Preparation	Border crossings can transform phones, laptops and media archives into sources of risk for storytellers and the communities they document, particularly as border authorities in some jurisdictions gain wider powers to inspect digital devices and may seek access to cloud-based data. This Circle seeks to share and compare experiences of device searches and metadata scrutiny across regions, while exploring holistic preparation involving digital, legal, physical, cultural and psychosocial considerations.
Deeply Rooted: Co-Creative and Relational Practices for Safeguarding (Digital) Cultural and Natural Heritage	Cultural and natural heritage are under threat from a convergence of crises, and the digital governance frameworks meant to safeguard them often replicate the same extraction and erasure they claim to prevent. This Circle invites participants to co-build a living set of relational governance principles, material that will directly shape an open-access zine on safeguarding digital cultural heritage, currently being developed through an ongoing cross-sectoral collaboration.
Deleted, Demoted, Disappeared: Now What?	What happens when artists lose access to the platforms that shape visibility, income, and cultural participation? In this collaborative discussion, Don't Delete Art and Repro Uncensored invite participants to explore the growing challenges of censorship, deplatforming, and algorithmic suppression for creatives online, and to imagine collective systems across regions that can reduce bottlenecks and provide effect support.
Digital Authoritarianism and Forced Exile: Mapping Experiences and Strategies	This Circle examines digital authoritarianism as a direct driver of displacement and exile. Participants will map shared experiences across regions, and explore collective strategies and mutual support mechanisms to address common challenges and threats.
Digital Territory: Rethinking Security for Environmental Defenders in Latin America	Environmental and territorial rights defenders face digital threats that existing security models weren't built for. This circle brings together frontline knowledge to co-build a situated understanding of digital risk, considering context, organization, and power.
Digital Transnational Repression: Connecting Across Regions	This meetup brings together practitioners working on digital transnational repression (TNR) to exchange experiences, compare emerging trends, and strengthen collaboration across regions. While TNR often appears as a series of isolated incidents affecting specific countries or communities, many of these cases reflect common tactics, shared methods, and recurring patterns employed by different states against diaspora and exile communities. Recent exchanges among practitioners highlighted the value of looking beyond individual country contexts. Thus, we hope to do just that, and identify common patterns, exchange practical lessons, compare tactics, and build stronger connections and continued collaborations across networks, regions and organizations.
Do You Sleep at Night? How to Not Wear Out Your Sysadmin	Runing infrastrucure is not easy. There can be hardware or power issue and your application is offline. Or there can be a failed software upgrade and your application is offline. There can be a storm and the WiFi antenna of your mesh network is collapsed. The neighbor complaining it can not access instragram. End users often quickly get frustrated - building pressure on sysadmins and operators. How to find the balance, how to set the right expectations for end-users.
Driving Action From Collective Alerting	Protection providers and security experts often spend their limited capacity urgently translating the latest threats into alerts that are relevant to the diverse communities they serve so they can independently identify and mitigate those threats or seek support when they can't. But, affected individuals often have trouble acting on these safety alerts because they may not understand what they mean, not know whether they apply to them, not grasp the risk level, not know where to get assistance, or lack the time/resources to take the suggested action. This circle will chart a path to a future where threat intelligence is rapidly and easily transformed into a range of alerts that allow diverse at-risk communities make informed security decision. Participants will explore what is necessary to make alerts actionable, identify the parts can/not be adapted and reused across different communities, and explore strategies and tactics for reducing duplication, and better connecting and building on other efforts
Eastern European and Central Caucasus Meetup	Connect with individuals actively working in the Eastern European and Central Caucasus region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse Eastern European and Central Caucasus projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Eastern European and Central Caucasus digital rights community.
Exploring Models and Best Practices of Building Sustainable Tech Collective Infrastructure	Participants will explore existing collectives that have lasted the test of time, such as Framasoft, May First, and Riseup, as well as exploring that did not last. Looking at different case studies, we will uncover best practices and lessons learned. We will also imagine what an effective tech collective serving defenders should be like, especially for those working in the most repressive environments.
Francophone Africa Meetup	Connect with individuals actively working in the Francophone African region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse Francophone African projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Francophone African digital rights community.
Games for Digital Rights & Security Education	Calling all practitioners and enthusiasts for interactive and play-based education! In this circle, we'll exchange ideas and lessons learned in creating and facilitating educational games. You're welcome whether you have created your own games, designed creative training tactics, or are just interested in how to elevate digital literacy and raise awareness in fun activities.
Hackear y Crear: Cesafíos y Estrategias Feministas Para Enfrentar Las Infraestructuras Tecnopolíticas Que Amenazan a las Democracias en América Latina	Este Circlo busca propiciar un diálogo amplio entre los movimientos feministas y los de defensa de los derechos digitales, con el fin de analizar cómo las infraestructuras tecnopolíticas impulsan nuevas formas de violencia de género facilitada por la tecnología (TFGBV, por sus siglas en inglés) que afectan a movimientos, especialmente en contextos políticos cada vez más hostiles. La discusión partirá de investigaciones recientes de organizaciones feministas y fondos de mujeres de ocho países de América Latina y el Caribe, que formará la base para examinar cómo este tipo de violencia afecta la participación democrática, e identificando características únicas y padrones. Las participantes también explorarán estrategias de cuidado colectivo, resiliencia digital y resistencia frente a estos desafíos.
Holistic Security for Immigration Rapid Response Work in the US	Across the US, the drastic increase in immigration enforcement activity has been met with an unprecedented development of hyperlocal rapid-response networks. These folks are doing the frontline work of monitoring, resisting, and documenting. Holistic community safety is essential in these continued rapid-response efforts. This circle will bring together individuals and organizations who are leading these security efforts to identify common challenges, share effective strategies, and coordinate on service delivery.
How to Stop Social Media Companies from Financing Threat Actors	Threat actors are increasingly turning to social media platforms as a source of revenue. Platforms have monetization policies in place to prevent the abuse of their monetization services, but as with content moderation, their enforcement leaves a lot to be desired. In this workshop, we will catch you up on latest trends in social media monetization and teach you how to check whether threat actors in your country are earn money from social media companies.
Hands off my stuff! Tactics and Strategies Against Physical Device Searches	An open discussion about the latest tactics and strategies to protect our devices and the data they hold against physical searches. We'll discuss tools, good practices, and threat models like border searches, lost/stolen devices, abusive domestic situations, etc.
How Ops Staff Can Stay Afloat During the Floods	Funding cuts, staff layoffs, and ongoing uncertainty are forcing organizations to do more with less. During this circle, participants will share honest struggles with maintaining efficient, resilient operations, and will come away with collectively shared tactics and strategies that have been successful to stay functional, even during high stress periods.
How to Approach Community-Rriven Development Beyond Git	Participants will discuss approaches to let software development be driven by users, even those without technical know-how or git knowledge. What can we learn from Community activation/building tools developed in activist circles? How can we maintain bidirectional and value-based community connections?
How to Design and Build Digital Infrastructure that Works for Your Community	Communities can own and govern their own digital infrastructure! This Circle is for anyone trying to connect their community to the internet, or build or adapt communication platforms to serve their communities needs. Come hear little-known successes, exchange honest lessons, and identify shared needs to strengthen community-owned infrastructure.
Inappropriate Bodies: Sex Workers & Queer People Pushed to the Digital Margins	Surveillance, erasure, and censorship have always been a day-to-day to the sex worker community. In this circle, we invite digital rights activists, moderators, developers, and other sex workers to discuss the impact and the harm of these issues and how we can come together to build an Internet rooted in collective liberation.
Influence Operations Investigators Meetup	A space for people who research and track influence operations across different regions to meet, connect, and build trust. Many of us investigate influence operations in relative isolation, often under risk, and rarely get to meet peers facing similar challenges. This meetup is a chance to put faces to names, share where we are working and what we are up against, and lay the groundwork for ongoing cross-regional collaboration that continues well beyond the GG. We especially want to connect investigators from underrepresented regions, including the Global South, where influence operations are often under-documented but increasingly consequential.
Illegal Trade in Personal Data: Presentation of a Report and Stories to Raise Awareness	In Latin America, there is an illegal market for personal data operating on Telegram, which appears to have links to public databases in countries across the region. The circle will begin the discussion by sharing key findings of a recent investigation into this phenomenon, including case studies from Argentina, Brazil and Peru. Participants will discuss and strategize around the most effective narratives for disseminating this type of information, and educating them on their rights and the promotion of digital security.
Intergenerational Conversation: Resisting Digital Authoritarianism Across Contexts	In this Circle, participants will explore how state-sponsored and tech-driven authoritarianism impacts different communities through shared experiences of digital surveillance, harassment, and censorship. We will intentionally bring an intergenerational lens, looking at how tech threats target different age groups, and how youth-led digital tactics can blend with seasoned organizing experience to build stronger collective defenses. Rather than focusing solely on regional differences, participants will identify common patterns and exchange community-led strategies that defenders can immediately adapt to their local realities.
Internet Shutdown Contingency Planning Help Desk (+ shutdown circumvention trainer meetup)	Come create an Internet shutdown contingency plan driven by your needs, taking into account your threat model and capabilities. Participants will be introduced to the BRACE (Building Readiness and Circumvention in Emergencies) Framework, which includes a curriculum, methodology, and trainer-ready framework, designed to help CSOs build customized contingency plans for outages. Come make a plan for yourself, or if you're a shutdown circumvention trainer, come to connect with other trainers and talk about shutdown circumvention!
Investigating Platform Accountability	This Circle will bring together individuals and projects investigating developments in platform accountability work, current needs, and brainstorming cross-regional actions. Building from prior reporting and research, we'll discuss hardwon lessons, share strategies to overcome challenges, and look out for ways to collaborate and learn from each other.
Journalism Meetup	Connect with other journalists and media professionals in the digital rights field. This is a fantastic opportunity to foster meaningful connections, share your concerns and seek support, and expand your professional network.
Knowing What You're Looking for: AI Slop and OSINT Work in Conflict Zones	How can we maintain the integrity of OSINT work when our processes and, increasingly, our own eyes can betray us? This Circle invites OSINT practitioners across disciplines - journalists, lawyers, digital rights defenders, academics, and beyond - to share their experiences navigating AI-generated content and disinformation in conflict zones, where synthetic media has increasingly been weaponized to distort documentation and accountability efforts. Participants are encouraged to bring examples and case studies for breakout groups, where we'll swap operational strategies for identifying and mitigating AI slop in our work.\|
Latin America Meetup	Connect with individuals actively working in the Latin America region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse Latin American projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Latin America digital rights community.
Leaving Big Tech: From Common Blockers to Collective Solutions	Making the case for moving away from Big Tech is one thing, but actually doing it is another. In this circle, we'll bring together organisations and individuals at different stages of their transition to share what has worked, what hasn't and what's still getting in the way. Whether you're trying to build internal consensus, in the middle of a technical migration, or already on the other side and looking to support others, this is a space to map out shared challenges and leave with some good next steps.
Lights in the Tunnel: Co-Creating an Accountability Framework for VPN Transparency	Participants will discuss and begin drafting a community-informed methodology for assessing VPN transparency and accountability. This includes what the methodology should look like, key policies or practices that it will assess, and the selection of VPN providers that should be evaluated. The Circle aims to strengthen and raise the bar for enforceable standards of platform accountability in the VPN ecosystem.
Living in the Crosshairs: Operational Survival Under Ubiquitous Surveillance	When total digital evasion is impossible, how do frontline defenders manage the day-to-day reality of targeted targeting? This highly collaborative Circle moves past standard baseline tools to share hard-won operational strategies, psychological coping mechanisms, and risk-mitigation tactics for working under unlawful state surveillance. We will map out collective cross-regional wisdom on moving from digital paralysis to resilient, ongoing activism.
MANTA: Measuring Tunnel Health in Censored Environments	An in-person gathering to present and discuss MANTA (Manifold Analysis of Network Tunnel Anomalies) with co-designers, implementors and aligned projects interested in measuring tunnel health in censored environments.
Mapping the Militarisation of Tech	The battlefield is coming to our towns and cities, as technologies that we rely on every day are militarised. In turn, civilian technologies driven by our data and our lives, are moving onto the battlefield. The very same companies who build tools of war are expanding to deliver civilian infrastructure, and vice versa. We are being pushed into a militarised future we don't want. This circle will explore strategies to counter the narrative that data-intensive military tech will lead to better protection for civilians, by highlighting the risks to our rights to privacy, data protection, and freedom of expression.
Mobilizing Around Convention 193: The First Global Treaty Establishing Labor Standards for the Platform Economy	This June, the International Labour Organization adopted Convention 193, the first binding global treaty establishing labor standards for the platform economy. The Convention addresses key issues including worker classification, algorithmic transparency, and social protection. While this marks a significant milestone, much work remains to ensure its effective implementation. This Circle will explore key dimensions of the Convention, including digital rights, automated decision-making, worker surveillance, and access to effective remedies. Participants will discuss how these provisions can be translated into national ratification and implementation strategies, as well as identify strategic entry points for advocacy, coalition-building, and stakeholder engagement.
Moderation, Maintenance, and Money: The Care Work of Community-Governed Tech	Community-led technology is often built around values like openness, access, privacy, and participation, but keeping it alive requires much more than shared principles. This Circle asks what it really takes to sustain community-governed infrastructure: who moderates harm, who maintains the code, who pays for hosting and security, who makes decisions, and how care work can be recognized before people burn out.
Navigating AI Use and Ethics in CSOs	The use of AI tools, specially LLMs, seems unavoidable, almost common sense. But considering all the societal negative effects, from environmental concerns, to privacy, through labor and gender, how can CSO implement guardrails to the use of such tools that align with their strategy and ethics?
North America Meetup	Connect with individuals actively working in the North American region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse North American projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the North American digital rights community.
On the Horizon: AI-enabled Technology and its Gendered Harms	With the steady increase in AI-powered technologies all around the world, the digital rights landscape is changing and with it so are online harms especially to women and young girls. This circle aims to discuss the impact of AI tools, software and technologies on how women access, use, and take part in online spaces. By leveraging research studies on gendered disinformation from the region, this circle will map our the real harms to communities across Global South through AI-powered technologies and surveillance.
OSINT in the Open Meetup	OSINT practitioners share methods and missions but rarely get to share a room. This meetup is a dedicated space for open-source intelligence professionals to meet, swap stories, and build the kind of relationships that make the work more sustainable and less lonely.
Participatory Defense Meetup	This meetup is for people working on participatory defense and advocacy for individuals who have been imprisoned-to share strategies, tactics, and build up a stronger network for defense.
Practical Security and Safety Strategies for Events and Community Spaces	Participants will explore and share practical strategies for ensuring the safety and security of events and community spaces, particularly in contexts with limited resources. At a time when gathering together has never been more important, many organizations are navigating shrinking teams, tighter budgets, and increasing demands. This Circle will provide an opportunity to exchange experiences, identify creative approaches, and collectively build knowledge that helps us continue creating spaces where people can come together safely, securely, and confidently.
Policy Advocates Meetup	Connect with individuals working at the intersection of policy and digital rights. This event offers a unique opportunity to learn from fellow policy advocates from across the world, and learn about current policy initiatives related to the impact of technology on human rights.
Researchers Meetup	Connect with fellow researchers investigating digital rights topics and subjects such as internet freedom, security and technology. Participants will share insights, discuss recent findings, and explore emerging trends in the field. Whether you're a seasoned researcher or new to the field, this meetup provides a supportive environment to enhance your work and impact.
Running and Using Local LLMs With Hardware You Already Own	A local LLM (Large Language Model) is an AI model that runs on your own computer or private server instead of sending your prompts to a cloud service like ChatGPT. Join this Circle to learn how to build and use a local LLM on older hardware—such as a five-year-old gaming desktop—making AI both more private and more sustainable. We'll start by sharing our setups (if you have one), including hardware specifications, what works well, what doesn't, and how we use local LLMs within their limitations. From there, we'll explore practical tips, configurations, and real-world use cases. This Circle is focused exclusively on local, self-hosted LLMs running on widely available consumer hardware. Some discussions will be technical, but no technical expertise is required if you're primarily interested in learning about the capabilities and use cases.
Russia Meetup	Connect with individuals actively working in Russia This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse Russian projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Russian digital rights community.
Secure and Private Design and User Research for Human Rights Tech Meetup	This Circle brings together design and research practitioners to discuss the state of user centered design and user research in the human rights technology and support/training space. Participants will define, discuss, debate and ideate what good and great looks like for users and beneficiaries of human rights technology as heard by designers, user researchers and digital security trainers that work directly with them.
Secure Messaging in 2026 and What Comes next	Participants will discuss what secure messaging looks like in 2026-and where it's headed next. We'll explore current trends, emerging gaps, and how evolving privacy technologies and federated protocols are reshaping the landscape. This session invites input from developers, advocates, and end users alike to help define the future of secure, user-centered communication. Come share your insights and help us imagine what comes next.
Security Practioners Meetup	Meet security practioners from around the world - from cybersecurity professionals conducting audits to digital security trainers. Whether you’re looking to share your expertise, learn from others, or expand your professional network, this Circle is a great place to learn about new developments, and find opportunities for collaboration.
Spill the Tea! What Digital Threats Are You Seeing?	Come share what digital threats you are seeing right now? What feels new, what keeps coming back, and what patterns are showing up across regions? This circle is a relaxed space to compare notes on digital threats and attacks in different communities and contexts. Activists can share what they are experiencing or hearing from others, while digital security supporters and trainers can share patterns they notice through support work. Together, we will explore how to make these observations useful for HRDs, and exchange practical strategies for facing these threats in different local contexts.
Starlink Best Practices	Facilitators of this Circle have been documenting the threat model, risks, and mitigations around the use of Starlink without detection. Come hear about what they have documented, share any lessons you have learned, and collectively discuss risks or mitigations.
Strengthening Rapid Response Efforts to Censorship Events	Join this session to discuss challenges, needs, and ideas for strengthening global collaboration on rapid response to emerging censorship events around the world. Participants will also learn about OONI's tools and methods for censorship rapid response.
South Asian Digital Liberation Meetup	This meetup brings together human rights defenders from South Asia to connect, exchange experiences, strengthen networks, and explore collaborative strategies for advancing digital rights, accountability, and justice across the region and beyond. Participants will also discuss and strategize around the region's unique digital landscape - as one of the largest markets for global digital platforms, where some of the egregious cases of digital violence have taken place (disinformation, hate speech, and online extremism). Together, participants will share insights and identify opportunities for collective action.
Spyware Researchers Meetup
Strategies for the Security and Safety of Community Spaces
SWANA Meetup	Connect with individuals actively working in the SWANA region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse SWANA projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the SWANA digital rights community.
Tech Justice Promenade: Gathering of LGBTQI+ and allies	This meetup provides a strategic space for LGBTQI+ technologists, policymakers, digital rights activists, and allies to connect and build actionable pathways for increasing queer representation in the global tech ecosystem and examining the rapid expansion of Artificial intelligence. strategising on how our communities can move from passive consumers of these technologies to critical operators who can shape its future and counter algorithmic bias.
Technologist Meetup	Meet technologists from across the world who are working in digital rights, or in other public interest technology areas. Whether you’re looking to share your expertise, learn from others, or expand your professional network, this Circle is a great place to learn about new developments, and find opportunities for collaboration.
The Future of DSA: A Global Perspective	This circle is designed for current and prospective DSA Human Rights Alliance members to discuss pressing issues in platform regulation at the EU level, the regulatory implications of EU regulation beyond its borders, and how broader regional perspectives can be incorporated into Alliance's activities. Building on the Principles for a Human-Rights Centered Application of the DSA: A Global Perspective, published earlier this year, participants will strategize on advocacy approaches to maximize the impact of the Principles and to envision the Alliance's future in the shrinking civil society space.
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U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights: Impacts, Challenges, and Opportunities	Participants will discuss the dramatic shift of U.S. government foreign policy since 2024 - from the gutting of foreign aid, firing of internet freedom staff, and deepening politicization of human rights policy. The discussion will center on how this shift has impacted human rights defenders around the world, challenges to engaging with the US administration, and potential efforts and opportunities that may still exist through 2028.
Working Around Max: Brainstorming Civil-Society Resistance to Russia's State Messaging App	Max is a state-backed messaging and government-services app from Russia's VK Group that became mandatory to pre-install on smartphones sold in Russia from September 2025, and is increasingly required to reach government services there and in Russian-occupied Ukraine. Drawing on InterSecLab's technical analysis of how Max detects and blocks VPNs, collects user data, and monitors in-app behavior, this Circle brings participants together to assess existing circumvention approaches and brainstorm new ones. Whether you are a journalist, lawyer, dissident, queer person, or VPN developer connected to Russia, have friends and family there, or simply want to lend your brainpower to internet freedom, you are welcome.
We See, We Archive, We Remember: Preserving Digital Evidence Against Erasure	Participants will discuss how public-interest information can be preserved when states, platforms, or legal systems make evidence disappear. Drawing on archival work from Hong Kong, China, Iran, Palestine, and other contexts, the discussion will focus on censorship, surveillance, transnational repression, platform takedowns, and the preservation of digital evidence of human rights violations. Participants will compare practical approaches to resilient preservation while examining safety, ethics, verification, access, and long-term stewardship.
When the World Moves On: Breaking the Silence After Crackdowns and Elections	The circle brings together participants to explore why "post-crisis silence" happens after elections, and collectively identify ways to sustain documentation, communication, and action beyond peak moments of repression. It is in these quiet periods after the crisis that evidence is lost, accountability weakens, and cycles of abuse are allowed to repeat. Strengthening our ability to act after crisis moments is critical to building resilient movements and ensuring that violations are not forgotten.
What Does a Girl Gotta Do Around Here to Get People to Download the Tool Before the Internet Shuts Down?	Okay, seriously though - We've been asking communities around the world for the past one year what they need when the internet shuts down, and one of the biggest challenges, no surprise, is adoption. So come, contribute your perspective, and jam with us on creative solutions to overcome common adoption challenges together xD
What Does a Win Look Like in Our Ecosystem?	In resource-constrained, high-pressure environments, and our present day doom and gloom narrative, communities that don't pause, reflect on their progress and celebrate their wins are more prone to burn out. This Circle brings participants together to define, share, and circulate what a "win" looks like in the Digital Rights and Tech Justice community - across regions, contexts, and scales. In preparation for the circle, we will gather stories from partners and members of the community, explore their main elements and invite participants. Participants will collaborate with a guide to recognize 'wins' and contribute to guidelines on how to tell these stories. The circle will also have as a result different narrative strategies that can help participants describe their work differently and potentially refine the goals of certain projects.\|
Western Europe Meetup	Connect with individuals actively working in the Western European region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn about different projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Western European digital rights community.
You Own Infrastructure! Great! How to Protect It from the Bad of the Internet With the Help of Scenarios	It is all fun to install and own your own hardware. But then you connect it to the internet. Suddenly, you are exposed to a wide range of risks. Automated bots are constantly scanning your infrastructure. Automated account take-over attempts show up in your logs. Your end user is complaning the software is outdated. How do you update it? Then, one day, you receive your first abuse report or cease-and-desist letter, and while replying to that letter a notification comes in . You servers are down, you are under a DDoS attack. What does it mean to be a responsible hosting provider, and what does it take to deal with the darker side of the internet?
Your Email, Delivered! Lets start a Discussion on Email Compliance and Deliverability	Newsletters, campaign updates, and calls to action: many individuals and organizations in the digital rights space need their email delivered in order to reach their goals. There are many-technical and non-technical-mechanisms that affect the "deliverability" of your email. We'll discuss non-technical strategies and explain what SPF, DKIM, DMARC, BIMI, TLS-RTP, and MTA-STS can do for non-profits, activists, freelancers and solopreneurs. Access to some of these technologies is prohibitively expensive. Can we count on your support to advocate for cheaper access to the most cutting edge email standards?

Booth Descriptions

Booth	Run by	Booth Description
Abrimos.info: Open Data Tools for Democracy in Latin America	Abrimos.info	Abrimos.info is a Latin American organization founded by a team with deep roots in data journalism, civic technology, and open data advocacy. We build and operate platforms that make essential public information accessible: Sociedad.info (public procurement and beneficial ownership data from 54 countries), Pidala.info (freedom of information requests), and Gobernantes.info (public officials). We also support civil society organizations with independent digital infrastructure through the Journalism Cloud Alliance / infratype project. Stop by to explore the tools, ask about the data, or talk about collaboration.
Digital Security Helpline - Safety Clinic	Access Now	The Digital Security Helpline offers expert guidance on online safety, privacy, and security for individuals and organizations. Whether you're dealing with hacking, harassment, data breaches, or just want to strengthen your digital defenses. At the booth, visitors can: Get one-on-one advice from digital security experts Learn simple steps to secure devices and accounts Explore tools for privacy, encryption, and safe communication Ask questions about real-life digital threats and how to respond
RightsCon On The Road	Access Now/RightsCon	This year, RightsCon 2026 was planned to be held in Lusaka, Zambia in May. After the effective cancellation by the Government of Zambia, our team and community lost a vital opportunity to convene, collaborate, and mobilize. The impact of the loss was greatly felt across the sector. Despite these challenges, our community demonstrated remarkable resilience and a clear desire to find pathways to convene again. In response, the RightsCon team has launched "RightsCon on the road", an initiative where we meet the community where they are at other existing and aligned events including Global Gathering. Our booth at Global Gathering will serve as a space for our community to come meet the RightsCon team, exchange insights about the state of civic space, and how conveners can adapt to the current geopolitical landscape and share our upcoming plans and ideas.
Amnezia VPN	Amnezia VPN	At our booth, we'll share the Amnezia ecosystem and what we've learned from working in places with heavy internet restrictions. We'll show Amnezia VPN and our research on VPN blocking, DPI filtering, and censorship in countries like Russia, Iran, and Myanmar and how we adapt to keep access working. We'll also present Amnezia Pulse, our project for tracking internet shutdowns, along with other open-source privacy tools we're building. Most of all, we want the booth to be a place to meet people, exchange ideas and real-world experience and, of course, share some Amnezia merch.
anoni.net Hub: Sinophone Asia-Pacific Networked Freedom	anoni.net	anoni.net is a Taiwan-based volunteer community helping the scattered Sinophone Asia-Pacific region stay safe online - keeping journalists' sources protected, letting activists organize without leaving traces, and helping people support sensitive causes without exposing who they are. This booth is our regional meeting point: sign the "Who's Here" board, post to the "Asia-Pacific Coordination Gaps" wall, and find the people working on the same problems you are. One thread we're actively researching is anonymous payment - how at-risk recipients and cross-border donors can move money without leaving an identifying trail - and we're collecting real-world use cases, so come trade notes with us.
Next generation Internet - Zero (NGI0) ecosystem	APC
Community Centred Connectivity	APC
Local Services for Communities	APC
WRP and FIRN ecosystem	APC
Next generation Internet - Zero (NGI0) ecosystem	APC
Celebrate good time come on	APC
Lantern	Lantern by Brave New Software Project, Inc Unbounded Lantern Github	Lantern is an open-source censorship circumvention tool with over 250 million downloads, built by Brave New Software Project - a U.S.-based nonprofit. During Iran's Women, Life, Freedom movement in 2022, Lantern served 10 million users monthly and carried up to 13% of the country's internet traffic. Come see how Lantern works across its two audiences - people in censored regions who depend on it to stay online, and users anywhere who want a nonprofit VPN and a direct way to help others get connected through Unbounded, Lantern's open-source peer-to-peer proxy network.
Calyx Institute	Calyx Institute CalyxOS	The Calyx Institute defends digital privacy, advances connectivity, and strives for a future where everyone has access to the resources and tools they need to remain securely connected. We are keen to connect with at-risk communities in need for digital privacy and security tools, our peer free and open-source software (FOSS) developers, and digital security educators and researchers. Our work focuses on building CalyxOS, a privacy-respecting Android operating system, Seedvault, a FOSS tool to back up and restore your Android devices, and other resources to help people protect their own data. Come chat with us! Tell us what features and tools you need the most in your mobile experience.
Cloud68.co - Open Source Managed Hosting for Values-Aligned Teams	Cloud68.co	Get a feel for what European-based, open source Managed Hosting looks like in practice. Targeted to small and medium teams and organisations that are tired of Big Tech's abusive practices and want digital infrastructure that matches their values. Platforms that cover file storage & sharing, calendars, real-time document editing, video conferencing, team password management (and more), all backed by human-powered migration workflows and tech support. Whether you're just starting to think about a move or already in the middle of one, come chat. Significant discounts for Global Gathering participants!
Cofacts.ai: Multi-Agent AI for Human-Centric Fact-Checking	Cofacts	Building on Cofacts' legacy as a pioneering crowdsourced fact-checking community and chatbot, we present Cofacts.ai, a multi-agent AI framework designed to empower human fact-checking collaborators. We will demo how specialized AI agents simulate diverse perspectives to help users draft empathetic, non-polarized responses while mitigating AI hallucinations. This interactive showcase explores the next generation of human-AI collaboration in protecting the digital public sphere.
Colnodo: Empowering Communities Through Technology	Colnodo	Visit Colnodo's booth to discover how we advance digital rights, digital security, community networks, and meaningful connectivity across Colombia. Explore our publications and community-led initiatives, connect with our work, and learn how technology can empower communities, strengthen people, and drive positive social change.
Let's Grow Living Libraries	Connecting Current Digital Library System - Global South Alliance	Are you also building a shared knowledge resource repository? Do you produce and disseminate knowledge on governance, policy, justice and human rights in a digital world? Or are you regularly hunting for relevant reports, toolkits and references? Connecting Current is a knowledge hub for the Digital Democracy Initiative (DDI). Launched as a public prototype in 2025, it is currently undergoing a revision and redesign process guided by library science and community engagement as exemplified in the Global South Alliance Digital Library. The Global South Alliance, The Engine Room and Global Focus invites everyone who is interested in growing living libraries to compare notes on how to build community-led knowledge spaces that stay useful, trusted, and responsive over time. We would love to connect and get your input shaping the platform.
Venezuela - Conexión Segura y Libre	CSL - Conexión Segura y LibreVE sin Filtro	Find out about how the internet has been weaponized for surveillance, fear and control in Venezuela; research documenting them, and the creative solution and training methods by Conexion Segura y Libre. See key data and methods on the latest research on tech used to violate human rights in Venezuela, with the latest research on Censorship and Surveillance. And local perspectives form the ongoing crisis response trying to connect people affected by the double earthquakes in Venezuela. Experience and collaborate on our out-of-the box training tools and ati-censorship tools - Try our 3D-printed ""toy"" to teach the basics of PGP and what's the whole deal keys: the asymmetric lock box - Play a round a card game to teach the nuances of internet censorship\|- Take a look into our approach for censorship and shutdown preparedness. - Use our anti-censorship tool that's uses VPNs but isn't really a VPN: Noticias Sin Filtro
Dash Chat	Dash Chat	Stay Connected When Systems Fail
From Shutdowns to Disinformation: Frontline Data for Safer Digital Spaces	Digihub Africa	This session draws on Digihub Africa's frontline research in Eastern DRC and Sudan to examine how disinformation, platform gaps, and digital disruptions are changing risks for journalists and human rights defenders in conflict zones. Using data from the January 2025 internet shutdown in Eastern DRC and insights from Sudan-focused research on misinformation and technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), it shows how loss of connectivity, unchecked information flows, and weak platform accountability increase vulnerability, silence voices, and put already at-risk communities at greater danger. The session presents community-generated data as a key tool for understanding new trends, spotting early warning signs, and guiding more responsive and rights-based interventions. Participants will engage with real frontline evidence to explore how data-driven methods can boost digital resilience, enhance platform accountability, and support safer information environments in fragile settings.
Unveiling Cyber-Surveillance - Case Studies from South Asia	Digital Rights Foundation	This booth will serve as an interactive community space that explores South Asia's evolving cyber-surveillance landscape through the lens of legislation, accountability, and resilience. We will showcase DRF's part in the Surveillance Accountability Initiative through the research Unveiling Cyber-Surveillance in South Asia, spotlighting each country and the need for democratic oversight and transparency in the region. The focus will especially be on how the Global South is increasingly becoming a hotbed for surveillance technologies and how supply chains leverage instability in the region to market their tech.
Digital Rights Game Creators & Players	Digital Rights Game Creators	Come browse a little marketplace of digital rights educational (but fun) games! We're bringing together the game makers behind Anti-Censorship Go, Press Panic!, Backdoors and Breaches, and more (to be confirmed) for you to discover, explore, try out, and bring it back to your community!
Digital Security Collective	Digital Security Collective	The Digital Security Collective (DSC) is a newly-formed alliance of digital security practitioners and providers working to improve coordination, response, and support to US-based movements and organizations. We are working to develop shared services to ensure resources are available to thousands of organizations vulnerable to surveillance, harassment, and digital threats. We know a lot of our members and prospective members plan to attend GG this year, and we'd love to say hello and share more about our work.
Sex Work and Deepfakes - A Report by ESWA	ESWA	For the past eight months, the European Sex Workers Rights Alliance has been working on an in-depth report about the intersections of sex work and AI-generated content. The findings (including policy recommendations) are in newly-published, 50 pages report, that can be seen, read, and taken home.
Unpacking wireless tech with the FADe Project	FADe Project	We want to bring interactive demos and resources to illustrate how many everyday technologies work and to explain their privacy and security implications. The final list of technologies to showcase is still in development; however, our aim is to include cellular networks, wifi, and Bluetooth as a minimum.
Help! Where's my newsletter?	First Draft Media	Do you publish an email newsletter? Is your public living in a censored environment or does your newsletter regularly fail to reach your audiences? Then I want to talk to you about my research of email censorship and deliverability. You (will) have options!
Cry to the Water: AI as Ancestral Intelligence	GLOBAL DIGITAL FUTURES LTD.	Step inside Cry to the Water, an interactive installation that reimagines AI through Indigenous knowledge, ritual and climate storytelling. Experience immersive visuals, sound and participatory interaction while exploring how ancestral knowledge and community narratives can inspire more caring, culturally sovereign and environmentally grounded AI futures.
Gossip Messenger - Your Messaging App Leaks. Change My Mind	Gossip Messenger	Gossip is a decentralized, end-to-end encrypted messenger with a censorship-resistant frontend hosted on-chain and local-first storage, built for people who can't depend on a single platform staying online. At our booth you can try Gossip live and take the "Change My Mind" challenge: tell us what you currently use to communicate, and one of our engineers will walk you through, in five minutes, exactly what it leaks even when your messages are encrypted.
25 years of Greenhost: introducing Steward Owned Infrastructure and SoSuite	Greenhost	It is an exiting year for Greenhost, with 25 years of history and lots of new under the horizon. Internet infrastructure is getting more complex on a yearly basis, and although we are promoters of self-hosting, it is not always a viable option. Was it possible 10 years ago to run your own mail server, nowadays dealing with block lists, allow lists and spam has become a science in itself. Rather choosing for big platforms from Amazon (AWS) or Microsoft (Office 365/Azure), Greenhost provides a wide range of competing services - all best of it - it is all steward owned. Please visit our stand to learn more about what Steward Owned means for us and you and learn about the next things at Greenhost, for example: SoSuite: our answers to big-tech collaboration software (Office 365, Google Docs). Also are also happy to introduce you to Soverin and LeafCloud, two very aligned organizations we work closely with.
Spreading Butter in the Wild	Guardian Project	(This is a structured activity. Be sure to arrive at the booth at 15:30 to participate) Join us for an outdoor field test of ButterBox's newest features: multi-box networking and DeltaChat secure messaging. This year, ButterBox wants to take over the Global Gathering space with a community stress test! Join us for a live demo, then breakout groups with a competition (game) for users to test our new features and win a prize.
Holistic Security Practitioners - Steps towards Community and Updating the Manual	Holistic Protection Collective	The Holistic Security Manual (https://holistic-security.org) celebrates its 10th birthday in 2026 and has advanced to a community resource and standard. Many initiatives, organisations and individual practitioners have since developed the ideas and approaches in a variety of ways. An envisioned community edition could bring a much needed update and diversification of the manual to include more feminist, global majority and indigenous works and approaches, by layering existing and new developed resources and approaches on top of the existing manual. This booth will create a space for holistic security practitioners and anyone interested in the idea to connect, share ideas and resources, and potentially work together on maintaining existing materials or creating new ones.
Nasnet Panel: Building a Digital Infrastructure that Can't Be Shut Down	Holistic Resilience NASNET Connect	Authoritarian governments, including Iran, use centralized internet infrastructure to censor information, surveil citizens, throttle access, and impose nationwide shutdowns. Low Earth Orbit satellite internet such as Starlink can provide an uncensored connection outside state control, but its impact is limited by high costs, deployment risks, and the fact that a single terminal typically serves only one location. Without a secure way to share that connection, nearby communities can remain offline. Most circumvention tools also depend on centralized or external infrastructure that can be blocked during shutdowns. While peer-to-peer approaches are more resilient, they often lack the adoption and usability required in real-world repressive environments. This project addresses that gap by building and deploying the NasNet Panel: a user-friendly, source-agnostic connectivity platform that enables autonomous connections, including satellite internet, to be securely shared across communities before, during, and after shutdowns.
Horizontal	Horizontal	We will present Horizontal's work and programs in support of activists, journalists and human right defenders, including digital security support and our two flagship products: - Tella: a free and open source tool to encrypt and hide files on your phone, and securely upload those to a cloud or share them with other users without an internet connection. - Shira: an anti-phishing education tool used by digital security trainers and organizations to build their team's or community's preparedness against phishing attacks on email and messaging apps.
Human Constanta & Friends: Digital Rights, Cybersecurity, and Pancakes	Human Constanta Digital Freedoms Lab Legal Hub Cyber Beaver Legal Club	Come for the pancakes, stay for the conversation. Meet the Human Constanta team, discover our projects in digital rights, cybersecurity, and legal empowerment, and hear what our latest research reveals about AI in NGOs and transnational repression against organizations in exile.
Palestine Booth	Independent	As we approach three years into the US-Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and across Palestine, and as we witness Western powers' unconditional material support for it, we want to make use of the space we have to hold conversations on how to understand this genocide, and 78 years of ethnic cleansing and occupation, how it intersects deeply with our spaces, and how we - as digital rights activists, academics, educators, researchers, technologists, human rights defenders, and journalists - can and should shape our work to engage meaningfully in this topic. We will also use the space to honor the lives of our martyrs, raise funds for our contacts in Gaza, and host sessions to inspire conversations about solidarity. We will intersect this cause with other contexts of digital military warfare and exploitation as a space to learn, be in solidarity, and imagine what resistance against tech-assisted imperialism can look like. https://chuffed.org/project/palestine-booth
Bots & Bytes: Dark Factory Game	Independent	I will be hosting a tabletop role-playing game called 'Bots & Bytes: Dark Factory' this month. In this fantasy game scenario, participants are part of a team investigating a hyper-automated manufacturing facility that operates 24/7 with zero human intervention. This factory eliminates all human-centric infrastructure, and is powered only by robotics, IoT networks, and other unseen creatures...what could possibly go wrong? This session is for anyone making decisions, spearheading processes, or participating in discussions about tech implementation at their workplace. This game scenario is a tool to help facilitate these conversations. This is an opportunity to learn basic tabletop role-playing game mechanics similar to Dungeons & Dragons. Each participant will receive guides and other materials to facilitate their own version of this game scenario. What to Expect: • A safe, collaborative space to share challenges • Peer-to-peer exchange of experiences and resources • Discussion on practical ways teams could support each other when navigating emergent tech
Open Access Curation Lab	University of the People Open Access Week	The Open Access Curation Lab is a collaborative space for accessing, sharing, and using open access resources to support research, learning, creating, publishing, and preservation. Please stop by the booth to ask your questions, offer tips, find new tools, or share your favorite open access resources! And, learn more about SPARC and International Open Access Week 2026 (October 19-25). #OAWeek
Jordan Open Source Association (JOSA)	Jordan Open Source Association	Join us at the JOSA booth to explore our open-source tools and products. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in light prototyping, live demos, and discussions around real-world use cases. The space is designed for collaboration, learning, and connecting with others working on digital rights and technology.
TF GBV Knowledge Hub & English-Arabic Glossary	Jordan Open Source Association Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TF GBV) Glossary TF GBV Knowledge Hub	This booth showcases two complementary open knowledge resources developed by JOSA to support research, advocacy, and response efforts around Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TF GBV). Participants will explore the TF GBV English-Arabic Glossary, a standardized bilingual reference designed to improve understanding and consistency of TF GBV terminology across Arabic and English. The glossary supports researchers, journalists, civil society organizations, service providers, and other practitioners working on prevention, protection, and response efforts. Alongside the glossary, attendees can discover the TF GBV Knowledge Hub, a curated, searchable repository of research papers, reports, policy documents, guides, and other resources from Jordan, the SWANA region, and beyond. The Knowledge Hub aims to make TF GBV knowledge more accessible while supporting evidence-based research, collaboration, and informed action. Participants will have the opportunity to explore both resources and their practical applications in their work and interventions, and learn about JOSA's broader work on digital rights, online safety, and TF GBV. They'll also receive supporting materials, including glossary handouts, informational leaflets, and stickers.
MANTA and LEAP Encrytpion Access Project	LEAP Encryption Access Project	Come talk to us about VPNs and measuring the quality of circumvention. We are the LEAP Encryption Access Project. Alongside developing the VPN stack used by RiseupVPN and others, we are building MANTA, a measurement tool for assessing tunnel health in censored environments.
Library Freedom Project	Library Freedom Project	Library Freedom Project is a network of values-driven librarians working together to build information democracy. Come to our booth to learn about how librarians protect privacy and defend digital rights.
Lockdown Systems	Lockdown Systems	A booth to talk about and support users using our tools: Cyd - https://cyd.social/ - delete and back up your social media history\|Onionshare - https://onionshare.org/ - securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network. As well as chat about developing projects like ICE Detetion Map, State Dept X Archive and Observer Vault. We'll be giving out Cyd codes to delete and back up social history as well as talking about our work and plans for the future including how we collaboratively develop tools for privacy, security, advocacy and activism online.
MaadiX	MaadiX	MaadiX plays a crucial role in providing tools that support organizations and individuals to\|protect their privacy and autonomy. Through an accessible, user-friendly interface that does not require advanced technical expertise, MaadiX enables Human Right Defenders to deploy and manage their own digital infrastructures independently, reducing reliance on large platforms that may be subject to surveillance, censorship, or third-party data access.
Toosheh & Friends	NetFreedom Pioneers Toosheh Star Toosheh	For over a decade, Toosheh has helped people access critical information during censorship and internet shutdowns. Visit our booth to explore the latest generation of the Toosheh ecosystem, including Toosheh, Toosheh Star, and VPNHood, through live demonstrations and discussions with our team. We'll also unveil the new Toosheh Star app and share lessons learned from real-world deployments in highly censored environments.
Open Briefing Holistic Security Support	Open Briefing	Open Briefing works with defenders, communities, and movements at risk to strengthen their physical safety, digital resilience, and collective wellbeing. We'll be available at the booth to describe our service offerings in detail, highlight key resources we've developed, provide light-touch guidance/support, and to gather referrals for individuals, organizations and collectives who may benefit from more in-depth services following the event.
Osservatorio Nessuno OdV	Osservatorio Nessuno OdV	We'll be happy to chat about our research and projects, including out ongoing effort to document techniques and tools used by law enforcement, such as low cost spyware and forensics investigative tools. We'll also demo, collect feedback and provide support around Bugbane, our open source Android application for consensual forensics.
Outline	Outline	The Outline Foundation booth is a gathering point for everyone who uses, builds, or runs Outline. If you’ve benefited from the Outline apps, come say hello, share your experience, and tell us how Outline could work better for you. Developers can learn how to add Outline to their apps, service providers can explore how to offer it to their communities, and operators can trade lessons on resilient, large-scale deployments. However you use or support Outline, come connect with the community and help shape what comes next.
Air Messenger	Phoenix R&D/Air Messenger	Air is a new secure messenger that caters to the needs of at-risk users and organizations. Air is based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol and combines end-to-end encryption, low metadata, and decentralization/federation. At the last Global Gatherings we shared how we have been building Air, this year we can finally open the doors for the community to start using Air. To give an overview about Air: End-to-end encrypted No phone number or email No metadata retention Easy to use Based on MLS Post-quantum-ready Made and hosted in the EU Free and open-source Air will soon also be available to use at your organization. Meet us at our booths to learn more on how you can use Air with your team.
How is your Organization Using Secure Messaging Apps? What's Still Missing?	Phoenix R&D/Air Messenger & OKthanks	We all use secure messaging apps for work, but sometimes they don't provide the features we need or they don't work as we want them to. Phoenix R&D, the developers of Air Messenger and OKThanks ( product designers for Convene and Shout) are gathering feedback on the features you'd like secure messengers to offer—especially for communication within organizations and projects. Stop by, share your feedback, and help shape and improve the secure communications app ecosystem. Want to contribute virtually? Take this five minute survey to share your thoughts. https://digitalrights.formstack.com/forms/secure_comms_2027
po1ytech 𝑥 IONAFLOW - Censorship Circumvention and Tooling for Journalists	po1ytech / IONAFLOW polymorphic	po1ytech builds ‹polymorphic›, an automated mirror system that keeps blocked independent media and human rights organisations reachable from inside censored regions, currently serving 22 organisations including The Insider, Verstka, and Department One. IONAFLOW is a news intelligence platform that gives journalists at independent outlets access to 1,800 curated sources, with deep coverage of Russia's state messenger and other closed information environments. Stop by for demos and to talk about circumvention tooling and reporting under state censorship.
AI Accountability Network	Pulitzer Center	Join the AI Accountability Network Booth to talk about investigating AI. We'll have stickers and info about about traings, workshops, grants, and other ways to connect with other journalists and researchers!
Revista Abismo: Stories Beyond the News Cycle	Revista Abismo	Revista Abismo is an independent media project from Latin America exploring the intersections between journalism, literature, and the arts. Come visit our booth to reflect on a key question: What stories are we leaving out of the digital ecosystem? You'll be invited to share a question, an idea, or a story you believe deserves to be told, helping us build a collective map of overlooked narratives while connecting with others interested in more diverse, meaningful, and human-centered journalism.
Rise Against Big Tech Coalition Booth	Rise Against Big Tech Coalition	Visit the Rise Against Big Tech (also known as RABT, pronounced "rabbit") coalition campaign booth to explore resources and techniques to help your organisation move away from Big Tech and towards more autonomous, values-aligned services. Stop by to browse our educational and technical materials, get to know our recently launched forum howto.riseagainstbig.tech, connect with coalition members and others who are navigating the same transition, or ask the team your questions about how to move away from big tech. Whether you are just getting started or already mid-migration we're here to share what we've learned and here to help you 'How To RABT'
Secure Storytelling Help Desk	Secure Storyteller Network SRS - Spring Revolution Security	A practical help desk for storytellers, content creators, and filmmakers navigating surveillance, censorship, cross-border risk, or community vulnerability. Secure Storyteller Network (SSN) offers short consultations, printed prompts, and low-tech scenario-based activities to help participants strengthen communication habits, protect footage and contributors, and build safer storytelling workflows. Alongside our group sound bath proposal, participants may also sign up for a 10 to 15 minute self-guided singing bowl session, using a 32cm bowl to explore resonance, grounding, and quiet reflection.
Open-Source Grants Management	Simula Lab LTD	At our booth, we will showcase an open-source Grants Management Module built on Odoo Community Edition. We developed this solution in collaboration with NGOs in France, Iraq, and Sudan to help organizations manage grants while maintaining control over their data and processes. The module supports financial transparency for donors while protecting sensitive beneficiary information through strong security measures. Because it is open source and self-hosted, organizations retain full ownership of their data and are not dependent on proprietary platforms. At the booth, we will demonstrate the solution, share our experience working with NGOs in challenging environments, and discuss practical approaches to data sovereignty and privacy for civil society organizations.
RightsLine- Navigating Digital Security and Securing Rights Online	Software Freedom Law Center, India RightsLine	SFLC.in conducts digital security trainings for stakeholders with different levels of experience. Through RightsLine, we assist users with cyberscams and syberfrauds. This booth will provide both technical tips to staying safe online, showcase some of the innovative frauds we have seen, and highlight how important it is to stay vigilant online.
User Experience Design & Accessibility Clinic	Superbloom Design, Kumquat, CoRD UX & Discovery Lab	Need UX assistance or advice? Have user feedback you'd like help thinking through? Want to think about how to get feedback from your users? Interested to learn more about usability and accessibility? Stop by the UX Design & Accessibility Clinic hosted by Superbloom, Kumquat, and CoRD!
The AI Risk Wall: What Civil Society Is Actually Worried About	Tecer Digital	Most published guidance on AI risk is written for large, well-resourced organisations or for individual use, and it rarely captures what people working in human rights, journalism and grassroots advocacy are actually facing inside small or under-resourced organisations. This booth gathers those concerns into a live, collective risk map: participants add their own risks, vote on the ones they recognise, and elaborate on what they think is especially urgent or important. The results will feed directly into an open source framework currently being developed for civil society use.
Tech for Palestine - Building Ethical Alternatives for Palestinian Liberation and Digital Sovereignty	Tech for Palestine	Join us at the Tech for Palestine Booth to learn how civil society and tech workers can divest from complicit Big Tech ecosystems by building alternative infrastructure rooted in digital sovereignty. We will spotlight T4P projects like Thaura and Upscrolled to examine ethical alternatives amid Big Tech's role in sustaining and enabling the genocide in Gaza, violence in Lebanon, and violations of international humanitarian law through policing and border enforcement. Tech for Palestine will share insights on tech complicity as we discuss how to advocate for, develop, and adopt tools that refuse complicity and work toward justice and liberation.
Portuguese Sovereign Tech Demos with Tertúlia das Curiosas	Tertúlia das Curiosas	Tertúlia das Curiosas will be presenting uniquely Portuguese sovereign technology for preserving security and privacy in a hostile world. Examples include our voice-changing audio processor that can defeat AI-based biometric voiceprint identification and our cyberdeck-style fashion computer that provides a secure keyboard and screen for private messaging as an alternative to smartphones.
Behind the Block: Exiled Media, Circumvention & the Fight for Audiences	The Fix Media	Independent media in exile are a frontline of digital freedom, and The Fix Media works to keep them reaching audiences behind blocks and bans. At our booth, we share fresh insights on the resilience of exiled media around the world, along with success stories from our own practice. Stop by for a free 5-minute tech stack audit and cast your vote in our interactive game, Dictators vs. Exiled Media. We're here to combine the knowledge in the room with our own expertise and to find new connections.
The Onion Odyssey Cryptographic Universe	Tor Project & Guardian Project (Orbot, Onion Browser)	Tor Project and Guardian Project together will tell the vivid, enthralling epic poem of the Onionverse -- the wayward heroes, the gigantic adversarial monsters, the vengeful nation state gods, and the protective goddesses of the magical onion layers that can protect and disguise us all on our journeys of justice.
Tumpa	Tumpa	Tumpa is a free and open source desktop application that makes OpenPGP key creation, key management and smart card access easier. In the booth, we encourage people to come and try making their OpenPGP keys with Tumpa or try managing their already created keys with Tumpa. Tumpa aims to make secure OpenPGP usage with smartcards easy for everyone even if you are not a technologist.
Bodies, Data, Territories: Transhackfeminisms from Abya Yala	Universitat de Girona and Técnicas RudasColectiva Ada HackFem Ai - YouTube HackFem Ai	Discover transhackfeminist practices and imaginaries from Abya Yala. Through audiovisual capsules, collective materials, and conversations, this booth presents the voices of women and non-binary people who are reimagining technology -from ancestral intelligences to artificial intelligence. Based on 57 face-to-face interviews, the project brings together hackfeminists, Indigenous communicators, community technologists, digital security practitioners, and feminist researchers. Stop by to explore, exchange experiences, and contribute your own visions of technological futures.
DATAGOV Lab: Transfeminist Digital Care & Infrastructural Inequalities	University of Amsterdam, DATAGOV	Step into the DATAGOV Lab booth and discover how infrastructures have the power to reproduce structural inequalities. Follow a self-guided journey: start with a wall of fieldwork photographs and stories from Brazil and the EU, then browse zines and the book Transfeminist Digital Care, which traces responses to technology-facilitated gender-based violence and proposes grassroots understandings of infrastructural inequalities and digital sovereignty. Along the way, respond to prompt cards on how regulatory data infrastructures quietly reshape governance — through biometrics, digital identity, health and education technologies. Whether you're curious about digital sovereignty, community-owned infrastructures, or algorithmic governance, Professor Stefania Milan and Postdoctoral Researcher Giulia Campaioli from the DATAGOV project at the University of Amsterdam will be on hand for informal conversation. No facilitation needed — just come, look, read, and share your own reflections.
One Year After International Funding Cuts: A Showcase of Grassroots Realities in Vietnam.	Vietnam Rise	What happens when international funding disappears but community needs remain? Visit our booth to explore the realities on the ground one year after the funding cuts and learn how grassroots organizations are building digital resilience to safeguard their work, strengthen community networks, and continue driving local action despite limited resources.
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ShoutSMS - An Encrypted SMS Solution for Internet Outages	Collaborative Futures \| Gisa Group	ShoutSMS is an Android app for internet-shutdown and surveillance circumvention that uses encrypted SMS to send images and text, helping journalists and HRDs in low-connectivity or shutdown contexts share reports and photos of abuses. At the booth we'll demo ShoutSMS, guide attendees through installation and hidden features like obfuscation and secret codes, and invite organizations to sign up as community partners for the next phase.
The De\|Center Booth	De\|Center	The De\|Center booth is for people who know technology is political, and want to stop it from being weaponized against the communities already carrying the heaviest harms. Come learn about Design from the Margins, our upcoming reports and research, and also how you can use our data or methods. Grab some swag, snacks, meet the team, learn about the org and find ways to support and collaborate!
Digital Citizenship Helpline: Emergency Digital Security Support	Digital Citizenship Organization	At the Helpline Clinic, we provide confidential, on-the-spot support with digital security and online safety, delivered by Digital Citizenship's emergency response team. We help with urgent problems compromised accounts, suspicious devices, online harassment, or surveillance concerns working through them with you one-on-one, and we welcome anyone who simply wants to learn how to better protect themselves and their community. We offer support in Arabic, French, and English.
*Reclaim Media Sovereignty and Safeguard Evidence with Save* by OpenArchive**	OpenArchive	We will demo our open-source app Save, which safeguards people and their evidence from censorship, surveillance, and data loss by enabling them to securely archive, verify, and encrypt (save) media to Nextcloud, the Internet Archive, and our novel P2P DWeb backend. We will also share how our human rights-centered research and development methodology ensures they are contextually resilient in the face of surveillance, shutdowns, and phone confiscation or loss by including front-line communities in every stage of the processes. Our booth will offer hands-on support and resources for attendees.
CADE - Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment	Diplo	It's no secret: Digital governance is becoming increasingly fragmented, making it difficult for civil society organisations (CSOs) to know where and how they can have influence. The CADE team, led by Diplo, works with CSOs, especially from the Global South, to build institutional capacities, offering expert and financial support on how to strengthen CSOs' impact in forums which matter the most. Visit us at the CADE booth to explore governance spaces, discover entry points aligned with your work, exchange experiences with peers, and contribute to a growing community working towards more inclusive digital policymaking. CADE is a project co-funded by the European Union.

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