September 27 2024 Agenda
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Plenary
11:30 am to 13:00 pm
Opening Ceremony & Networking Hour
Don't miss our opening ceremony! Come learn about what 2024 has in store for you! Get an overview of the culture BUT most importantly connect with old and new colleagues!
This is a great time to start the joyful reunion of the digital rights community! You can also have lunch at one of the many diverse food trucks and vendors!
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Self-Organized Socials |
| Check out the list of self-organized Socials taking place at off-site (but close by) locations, ranging from meetups to numerous activities. https://pad.riseup.net/p/GG-Socials-2024 | |
| A sample of today's Socials: Caribbean Meetup |
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CirclesYou can find detailed Circle descriptions the end of this page. You can also organize your own self-organized Circle or Booth in the empty spaces (marked SOC TBD) by following these instructions. | ||
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| Circle 1 | Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Caucasus Regional Meetup | Digital Security Trainers Meetup | Shield or Sham: How useful are digital security trainings? |
| Circle 2 | Self-Organized Circle to be determined (SOC TBD) | Digital Rights in Portugal: Where do we go from here | (SOC TBD) |
| Circle 3 | (SOC TBD) | (SOC TBD) | (SOC TBD) |
| Circle 4 | (SOC TBD) | (SOC TBD) | (SOC TBD) |
| Circle 5 | (SOC TBD) | (SOC TBD) | (SOC TBD) |
| Circle 6 | Asia Regional Meetup | Digital Challenges for Journalists and Activists During the Conflict | Supporting Disrupted Media |
| Circle 7 | North America Regional Meetup | Strategic Litigation Reimagined for Justice | Developing stories and talking points to support fundraising |
| Circle 8 | Africa Regional Meetup | Researchers Meetup | Horse before the cart: Empowering change with representative local data |
| Circle 9 | Western Europe Regional Meetup | Policy Workers Meetup | Reflecting on Surveillance Studies Research Methodologies: The good, the bad and the ugly |
| Circle 10 | Latin America Regional Meetup | Technologists Meetup | Current blocking trends, how states in different countries do it |
| Circles @ Partner Villages, September 27 | |||
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| Tor Project & Tails Village (Booth 9) |
Working on the well-being of workers | Running Tor relays in/by the Global South | |
| Calyx Institute Village (Booth 12) |
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| Clean Insights Tea House (Booth 19) |
Clean Insights Tea Time | Clean Insights Tea Time | |
| SplinterCon Village (Booth 3) |
You are Here: Splinternet | Tools of Resistance: Showcase of Existing Solutions and Open Mic for New Projects | Make It Worse: Help Us Build the Creepiest Shutdown Simulator |
| APC Village (Booth 21) |
How do we get the internet we want? Feminist Provocations and Questions for Internet Governance | ||
| Outline Village (Booth 79) |
Hang out with the Jigsaw team! | Outline Tools & Tips | Outline Newbie Meetup |
| WANA Café (Booth 81) |
MENA Regional Meetup | Digital threats in the Arab speaking countries | |
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BoothsEach booth has a number, which can be found on top, center above a booth's "window". You can find detailed Booths & Villages descriptions at the bottom of this page. | ||||
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 15:30 - 17:30 | ||||
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| Booth 2 | OONI Run v2 Demo | Open Observatory of Network Interference | Wiki-Advocacy: How the people behind Wikipedia work towards a better internet | Wikimedia Foundation | |
| Booth 3 | SplinterCon by eQualitie Village | eQualitie | SplinterCon by eQualitie Village | eQualitie | |
| Booth 4a | Fairwork | Fairwork | Numun Fund | Numun Fund | |
| Booth 4b | Conexión Segura y Libre | Conexión Segura y Libre | Horizontal Booth: Tools for your Digital Security | Horizontal | |
| Booth 5 | Join the Localization Lab Community! | Localization Lab | D3 - Defesa dos Direitos Digitais | D3 - Defesa dos Direitos Digitais | |
| Booth 6 | Fascism is Rising...Fight Back And Build Tech For the Most Marginalized and Criminalized | De|Center | WEPN: Hardware pod & companion app for self-hosting internet freedom tools | WEPN | |
| Booth 7 | Usability and Accessibility Clinic | Accessibility Lab
UXD Lab Ura Design Decent Design |
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| Booth 8 | Whats Happening In Myanmar | Myanmar Internet Project | Letro | Relaycorp | |
| Booth 9 | Tor Project and Tails Village | The Tor Project and Tails | Tor Project and Tails Village | The Tor Project and Tails | |
| Booth 10 | Open Technology Fund | Open Technology Fund | Human Rights @ Meta | Meta | |
| Booth 11 | PigeonHut: Get Shredded for Your Bodily Autonomy | Digital Defense Fund, Plan C, Amnesty International USA | PiRogue Tool Suite (PTS) | Defensive Lab Agency | |
| Booth 12 | Calyx Institute Village | The Calyx Institute | Calyx Institute Village | The Calyx Institute | |
| Booth 13 | CyberStar: Digital safety support for small CSOs | The SecDev Foundation | How to use IODA to Monitor for Internet Shutdowns | IODA @ Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Booth 14 | GlobaLeaks | GlobaLeaks | Digital Defenders Partnership | Digital Defenders Partnership | |
| Booth 15 | Snowstorm | Snowstorm | MapBond Connect Hub | Mapbond | |
| Booth 16 | Improving the Lists of Websites (aka Citizen Lab test lists) Used to Measure Internet Censorship | NETALITICA | Quiet: A "Slackier Signal for secure team chat" | Quiet | |
| Booth 17 | Omidyar Network’s Digital Trust and Safety Strategy | Omidyar Network | Censorship Resilient and Distributed Publishing: 451 Tools and more | Zamaneh Media | |
| Booth 18 | Open Culture Foundation | Open Culture Foundation | Abrimos.info: Generating strategic knowledge from open data | Abrimos.info | |
| Booth 19 | Clean Insights Tea House | Guardian Project | Clean Insights Tea House | Guardian Project | |
| Booth 21 | APC Village | Association for Progressive Communications | APC Village | Association for Progressive Communications | |
| Booth 22 | International and regional projects looking at the intersection of digital rights and freedom of expression | Article19 | International and regional projects looking at the intersection of digital rights and freedom of expression | Article19 | |
| Booth 79 | Outline Village | Outline | Outline Village | Outline | |
| Booth 80 | Greenhost | Greenhost | Freedom of the Press Foundation | Freedom of the Press Foundation | |
| Booth 81 | WANA Café | SMEX | WANA Café | SMEX | |
| Booth 82 | The Palestine Booth | Collective | |||
| Booth 83a | Digital Justice House | Team CommUNITY | |||
| Booth 83b | Coaching, Leadership and Fundraising Support | Spring Strategies | |||
Evening Celebration
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Drag Show & Guest DJs
Time: 18:00 Un)official drag queen of the digital rights community Valencia Drive is your commercial-free hotmix of the 80’s, 90’s and today, here to serve you more fashion, more comedy, and more cartoonish nonsense than ever before. Valencia returns to Global Gathering mainstage this year with yet another iconic, legendary, and absolutely flawless performance, proving yet again why she’s your favorite threat model’s. (Valencia Drive's IG: @thevalenciadrive) This will be followed by guest DJs TBD. |
Partners
Equity Fund Sponsors
Circle Descriptions
| Africa Regional Meetup | Connect with individuals and organizations 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 Regional Meetup | Connect with individuals and organizations 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 Asia digital rights community. |
| Clean Insights Tea Time | Join the Guardian Project team twice a day to delight in delicious ethical and organic Insightful Tea while chatting about ways in which your work can detox from harmful tracking and data collection practices. |
| Current blocking trends, how states in different countries do it | Participants will discuss current trends in the field of government blocking and censorship on the Internet. Together they will examine the methods used by governments to control and restrict access to information online, as well as discuss the challenges facing users and technology companies. Topics for discussion:1. Current trends in government blocking: analysis of recent events and changes in censorship policies in various countries.2. Methods of implementing censorship: studying the technologies and methods used by states to block access to certain resources and services on the Internet.3. Impact on Freedom of Information: The implications of government censorship for freedom of speech, human rights, and the development of the Internet community.4. Development prospects: the search for new approaches to bypassing blocking and protecting user privacy, as well as the role of technology companies in this process. |
| Developing stories and talking points to support fundraising | Storytelling, explaining your work succinctly, and differentiating your program from others are all critical to fundraising successfully. In this circle, participants will go through best practices in these tools and practice communicating their impact for potential funders. |
| Digital challenges for journalists and activists during the conflict | Journalists and activists in Eastern Europe are vulnerable during conflicts because of their coverage of difficult societal topics, which ultimately makes them targets. Participants will discuss digital risks and threats these Eastern European activists and journalists face during conflicts, including exploring common threats, and possible common solutions for security specialists. |
| Digital Rights in Portugal: Where do we go from here | A get-together for Portugal-based digital rights orgs and activists to sit down, share their struggles and achievements, establish bonds and think up what we can accomplish together. |
| Digital Security Trainers Meetup | This practioner meetup brings together digital security trainers. Meet and learn from digital security trainers from around the world, get updated on new trends and issues in the field, and share your knowledge. |
| Digital threats in the Arab speaking countries | This circle is for the Arab speaking countries to share their knowledge of the current threats and issues, including direct digital security threats, such as attacks and censorship, and tactics such as laws, police asking people to unlock their phones, etc. Participants will help map current issues in the region, and collect intel and responses, and, if time permits, define and suggest actions to address the gap between supply and demand. |
| Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Caucasus Regional Meetup | Join this meetup to connect with individuals and organizations working in the regions of Easter Europe, Central Asia, and Caucasus. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the digital rights communities in these areas of the world. |
| Hang out with the Jigsaw team | Swing by to enjoy drinks and snacks while we get to Jigsaw team and other users! |
| Horse before the cart: Empowering change with representative local data | Digital rights and IF programs will continue to be a vital lifeline amid the proliferation of censorship and surveillance technologies, and declining internet freedom year after year. This brings essential reflections into focus: Are these crucial programs of tomorrow (and the decades beyond) prepared? Do they appropriately address community needs and priorities? How do we ensure that local voices are represented in our program goals and activities? If our future work is to impact local populations at a significant scale, it necessitates working from a deep understanding of the communities we endeavor to help. Participants will discuss how program management can synergize - not just intersect - with audience research and impact assessment insights that help us understand, and bring into focus, local priorities for future change. |
| How do we get the internet we want? Feminist provocations and questions for Internet governance | The current moment is a reckoning at a global level on internet governance. The power of technology companies has been growing unabated, in spite of the existence of processes for internet governance. This year marks 20 years of the World Summit of Information Society and in 2024, the Global Digital Compact has been introduced by the United Nations for establishing shared principles for digital cooperation and governance worldwide. All these processes forefront inclusion and multistakeholderism, but the lived experience for most activists from a marginalised location has been of inaccessibility and opacity. What is needed right now is a coming together through spaces like the Global Gathering, to determine feminist, queer and radical perspectives on internet governance and more active engagement. As part of the background for this panel, please check out: Preliminary feminist provocations on internet governance and WSIS+20 https://giswatch.org/node/6358/ |
| Latin America Regional Meetup | Connect with individuals and organizations actively working in the Latin American (LATAM) region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse LATAM 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. |
| Make it worse: Help us build the creepiest shutdown simulator | Engage in a challenge aimed at creating the most dystopian shutdown scenario. This circle is a collective exercise in understanding the extreme edges of digital isolation, encouraging participants to imagine and construct the architecture of a comprehensive shutdown simulator. |
| Managers Meetup | Managers in the digital rights field are still navigating complex issues that started in 2020 that range from team health to fundraising challenges. Come meet other managers, and gain valuable insights, best practices, and get answers to your pressing questions. This is a great opportunity to cultivate stronger solidarity and support between managers in the field. |
| MENA Regional Meetup | Connect with individuals and organizations actively working in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse MENA projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the MENA digital rights community. |
| North America Regional Meetup | Connect with individuals and organizations actively working in North America, including Canada and the USA. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the North America digital rights community. |
| Outline Newbie Meetup | Learn about Outline, ask questions, and let us know how Outline can better work for your context and experiences. |
| Outline Tools & Tips | Learn to measure network interference and explore tools to bypass restrictions. Use them later at the Splintercon Escape Game! |
| Policy Workers Meetup | Join this circle meetup tailored specifically for individuals working at the intersection of digital rights and policy. This event offers a unique opportunity to connect with fellow experts and advocates dedicated to shaping the future of digital rights and internet governance. Learn from real-world experiences and policy initiatives related to the impact of technology on human rights. |
| Reflecting on surveillance studies research methodologies: The good, the bad and the ugly | The rising tide of authoritarianism has led to an increased uptake of suppressive surveillance by governments across the world. Many dedicated researchers and other internet freedom community members have worked to understand and counter repressive surveillance tactics through several different methodologies, including network measurement, supply chain, forensics, and ONSINT. This circle will be for learning the challenges the researchers face, and learning the gaps in surveillance-research funding. |
| Researchers Meetup | Connect with fellow researchers at this circle meetup designed specifically for those investigating topics and subjects in digital rights and internet freedom. This event offers a space to 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 Tor relays in/by the Global South | Tor relays form the backbone of the Tor network, and they are run by volunteers from around the world. Without volunteers Tor would not be possible, however the majority of volunteers are located in the Global North. We need to further (and perhaps genuinely) decentralize the Tor network, and so in this Circle we will talk about how to run Tor relays in our own contexts, and why it matters for the future of privacy. |
| Shield or Sham: How useful are digital security trainings? | This circle aims to dive into a critical examination of digital security training’s role in strengthening resilience and threat resistence of journalists, human rights defenders and marginalized groups. Do trainings work? can traditional security trainings keep up with the sophisticated tactics of cybercriminals, in particular when they are state-sponsored? Are trainings equipping individuals and organizations with the necessary tools to better protect themselves, or are they providing a false sense of security? And if trainings do not work, what is the alternative? This circle seeks to explore the effectiveness of digital security trainings in fostering a culture of cyber resilience versus their potential to please donors and funding trends and presenting an “easy fix” to a complex problem. |
| Strategic litigation reimagined for justice | Strategic litigation is an essential tool for advancing human rights in the digital space and holding corporations and governments accountable. Participants will discuss the prioritization and funding of legal cases that centralise the needs of communities most impacted by digital rights violations from an intersectional approach. Participants will collectively imagine a future that prioritises racial, social, economic and environmental justice. |
| Supporting disrupted media | Media organizations are facing fundamental disruption after a decade of over-reliance on algorithmic amplification. In response, a new group of media entrepreneurs is emerging, focusing on meeting community needs. This conversation will explore the intersection of technology and media strategy, examining the challenges and opportunities in this evolving landscape. Participants will discuss the impact of algorithmic amplification on traditional media, the rise of community-focused initiatives, and the potential for innovation in the industry. We'll consider how emerging technologies and changing consumer behaviors are reshaping media business models, and what this means for the future of information dissemination and community engagement. |
| Technologists Meetup | Join the Technologists circle meetup, tailored for individuals at the forefront of technology and digital rights. This event is an excellent opportunity to engage with technology leaders, developers, and tech enthusiasts who are shaping the future of digital infrastructure with cutting-edge solutions. Whether you’re looking to share your expertise or learn from others, this meetup is a hub for advancing tech-driven solutions in the realm of digital rights. |
| Tools of resistance: Showcase of existing solutions and open mic for new projects | A deep dive into the evolving arsenal of tools designed to navigate and subvert the splinternet. Participants are invited to not only explore established solutions but also to present nascent projects and innovative ideas. This circle fosters the sharing of insights and the co-creation of resilient digital strategies. |
| Western Europe Regional Meetup | Connect with individuals and organizations actively working in Western Europe. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Western Europe digital rights community. |
| Working on the well-being of workers | Let's talk about policies for the well-being of workers and how to build democratic processes within the organization. |
| You are here: Splinternet | Explore the fragmented digital landscapes that parallel and diverge from the monolithic internet. This circle sets the stage for SplinterCon, guiding participants through the disjointed realities of the splinternet. We delve into the emergent barriers, alternate pathways, and new modalities of connection that define this digital periphery. |
Booth & Village Descriptions
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| Tor Project and Tails Village | The Tor Project & Tails | At the Tor and Tails booth you can learn more about tools that can help you be anonymous on the internet. Come to chat with us about how to use the Tor Browser or the Tails OS to protect your privacy online and bypass censorship. Learn more about our community and how to volunteer. And if you would like to partner with us for digital security training in your area. |
| Calyx Institute Village | Calyx Institute | The Calyx Institute's mission is to educate the public about privacy in digital communications and to develop tools that anyone can use. One of our featured tools is CalyxOS, an Android mobile operating system that puts privacy and security into the hands of everyday users. |
| Clean Insights Tea House | Guardian Project | Come by to have tea and chat with the Guardian Project team about their work on privacy-preserving measurement, internet shutdown resilience, anti-censorship and more!https://cleaninsights.org/gg |
| SplinterCon by eQualitie Village | eQualitie | Join us at the SplinterCon booth, an initiative by eQualitie dedicated to exploring, challenging, and counteracting global internet fragmentation. Our focus is on resilient, decentralized tools, along with the developers and communities that support them.At our booth, you can:• Breakout from a simulated shutdown environment that mimics a pocket splinternet.• Participate in interactive workshops that reflect the current state of the web.• Test circumvention tools.• Share your experiences with internet fragmentation.• Learn from the expertise of advocates working in affected regions.The SplinterCon booth is a space for discussing the challenges and opportunities of a constantly fragmenting internet, offering you a hands-on experience of navigating and thriving in this evolving landscape. |
| APC Village | Association for Progressive Communications | The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is a membership-based network of organisations and activists. It was founded in 1990 to empower individuals, organisations and social movements to use information and communications technologies (ICTs) to build strategic communities to contribute to equitable human development, social justice, participatory political processes and environmental sustainability. |
| Outline Village | Outline | Join the Outline Village meet the team behind Outline Manager, Outline SDK, and other tools! Outline is an open-source project created by Jigsaw that provides a safer way for individuals and organizations to access the open internet. Jigsaw is a unit within Google that explores threats to open societies, and builds technology that inspires scalable solutions. |
| WANA Café | SMEX | Join our booth for dialogues on WANA’s digital future and a taste of local flavors!" |
| Abrimos.info: Generating strategic knowledge from open data | Abrimos.info | This booth features demonstrations of different tools used by Abrimos.info in real-world scenarios to effect change and enhance public policy in Latin America We create digital infrastructure with fundamental information for Latin American democracies. Support organizations, governments and companies to turn data and information into inputs for strategic decision making and provide tools for evidence-based narratives that empower communities, impact relevant stakeholders and promote social justice.Showcase the capabilities of TeseoETL, our powerful data processing tool. Experience live demos of how we transform raw data into actionable insights, aiding journalists and NGOs in their fight for transparency and accountability in government contracting.Examples of our work: Pidala.info for freedom of information request, Gobernantes.info a latinamerican database of verified information on political candidates and Sociedad.info, a backup for open contracting data. |
| Censorship resilient and distributed publishing: 451 tools and more | Zamaneh Media | Publishers understand their own needs and that of their audiences the best. What would the world of censorship circumvention look like if this understanding is incorporated into tools? At the booth, Zamaneh Media will showcase the tools it has developed and those in the pipeline that take a user-first, publisher-centric approach to tool development. What were some of the challenges, what were the big moments of success? This booth will cover a publisher's journey of taking on tool development and establishing strong partnerships with the iFreedom community all to keep independent information available to news readers. |
| Coaching, Leadership and Fundraising Support | Spring | Spring is a leadership development partner that has worked with changemakers from 1,000+ organizations in 100+ countries over the past 20 years. Visit our booth to sign up for a complimentary 45-minute coaching session in English, Spanish, or Portuguese throughout the Gathering! We can support you to solve the questions keeping you up at night— donor prospecting and communicating with funders, work-life balance, stress, job transitions, delegating effectively, navigating uncertainty and more. Spots are limited so register soon for your coaching session. https://www.springstrategies.org/coaching-global-gathering |
| Conexión Segura y Libre | Conexión Segura y Libre | Conexión Segura y Libre is a Venezuelan NGO dedicated to the defense of digitals rights and internet freedom. This year we launched an anti-censorship newsreader app, which uses an integrated VPN powered by Psiphon and Outline. We are excited to share this new project with the international digital rights community. |
| CyberStar: Digital safety support for small CSOs | The SecDev Foundation | CyberStar is a long-running digital safety audit approach for Eastern Europe/Central Asian civil society groups. Featuring women trainers from the region (Georgia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan), our booth will feature audio-visual materials demonstrating our approach and results. Visitors will be able to demo our 'scorecard' surveys for individuals and organizations, and give us feedback and views on our approach. |
| D3 - Defesa dos Direitos Digitais | D3 - Defesa dos Direitos Digitais | D3 - Defesa dos Direitos Digitais is the Portuguese digital rights group dedicated to fighting and advocating for fundamental rights in a techno-political context. Since its creation in 2017, D3 has been at the forefront of issues such as copyright reform and censorship filters, net neutrality, contact-tracing apps, public space surveillance, encryption of communications, metadata retention, electronic voting or internet regulation. |
| Digital Justice House | Digital Justice House | Learn more about the Digital Justice House initiative and toolkit which focuses on three organizational policies to improve the health of the digital rights teams: the right to disconnect, the four-day work week, and the unlimited vacations. Get advice and have your questions answered on why this matters and how to best implement these policies to improve health of your team and impact of your work. |
| Fascism is Rising...Fight Back And Build Tech For the Most Marginalized and Criminalized | De|Center | We are in a highly difficult period with increasing militarization, global policing, dictatorial control, and the weaponization of tech for human rights abuses – we can strategically encode how we fight back. As the De|Center we'll discuss how we are pushing technology to be a tool for the power of people and not oppression through community based research and harm reduction with Design From the Margins. We’ll have case studies from groups such as minorities in Uganda and Sudan; Tigrayan and other marginalized communities in Ethiopia; Muslim communities in Kenya; activists in Palestine; women in Saudi; migrants in Latin America; & LGBTQ communities in MENA. We want it to be a place to urge the community-based reimagining of tech design – large and small – where we center the expertise and experiences of the most impacted communities (those who are both marginalized and criminalized - DFM). Some discuss being involved and also how you’re doing this in your tech building yourself. |
| Digital Defenders Partnership | Digital Defenders Partnership | Digital Defenders Partnership (DDP) is an international programme that contributes to strengthening the resilience of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) by increasing their digital security through a holistic and sustainable approach. We envision a world in which HRDs contribute to social justice while enjoying safety, well-being, freedom, and dignity. |
| Fairwork | Fairwork | Fairwork is a global initiative from Oxford University that aims to promote digital workers rights. My idea for the booth is to promote the initiative by showing workers' testimonies and the project's progress on the matter. I can also bring merchandising like stickers or t-shirts with statements. |
| Freedom of the Press Foundation | Freedom of the Press Foundation | Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) is a nonprofit working at the intersection of human rights, journalism, and technology. A unique organization in the security and internet freedom community, FPF has pioneered a multilayered approach to preserving and extending the privacy and security of journalists in the interest of advancing a free, adversarial press.
Our digital security training team provides support to journalists and media-makers working in the public interest through trainings, consulting, and security assessments; run ongoing digital security programs, and participate in conferences and events around the world throughout the year. We also write security guides that address common digital security concerns and conduct research on the latest digital security developments. |
| GlobaLeaks | GlobaLeaks | GlobaLeaks is free, open-source software enabling anyone to easily set up and maintain a secure whistleblowing platform. Thanks to GlobaLeaks. everybody can easily set up a secure and anonymous whistleblowing initiative. Designed to be user-friendly, the software is customisable to your needs and protects the whistleblower’s privacy and submissions by default. |
| Greenhost | Greenhost | Greenhost is a digital infrastructure provider in the community. We help organizations to have a safe and trusted place on the internet. The booth will be a place to connect with our users and potential new users. |
| How to use IODA to monitor for Internet shutdowns | IODA @ Georgia Institute of Technology | This booth showcases both the IODA interface for live demos on how to use the IODA dashboard as well as share new guides developed for less technical users on how and when to use IODA, the IODA signals, and the IODA rapid response shutdown protocol. |
| Horizontal Booth: Tools for your digital security | Horizontal | Horizontal is an international CSO that support activists, journalist, and human right defenders with technology tools and trainings. We will demo our 2 flagship products:
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| Human Rights @ Meta | Meta | Meta's Human Rights Team will be present to answer your questions and hear your feedback about our policies and work to protect human rights defenders across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. We'll also be hosting two interactive sessions: a tabletop exercise simulating how we respond to conflict and crisis situations, and a structured consultation and update on our Trusted Partner and HRD escalation channels. |
| Improving the lists of websites (aka Citizen Lab test lists) used to measure Internet censorship | NETALITICA | Netalitica updates Citizen Lab test lists used by network probes (e.g. OONI Probe) to uncover Internet censorship. This booth is designed for people with limited technical skills who are interested in investigating Internet censorship.(e.g. social scientists, activists, media professionals) Get introduce to the lists, their types and structure, reveal the common problems that URLs in them suffer from, and learn how to fix bad URLs and update the lists with fresh content. In addition, review existing methodologies of updating test lists and discuss their advantages and disadvantages to feel comfortable picking the right methodology for your research. In addition, learn about a case study demonstrating how to organize collection of network measurements to produce an analytical report on blocking of websites, with the goal of acquiring practical knowledge on how to update test list. |
| International and regional projects looking at the intersection of digital rights and freedom of expression | Article19 | During the Global Gathering regional and thematic specialists will be facilitating sessions, working with human rights defenders, and providing training. Our booth will be staffed throughout the Gathering and we are looking forward to meeting you and to learning more about your projects too. Our booth will be part of the Job Fair, so feel free to stop by and meet our colleagues to learn more about our work with partners around the world. |
| Join the Localization Lab community! | Localization Lab | We have localized nearly 200 internet freedom tools and resources into 220 languages, and we need your help to do more! Drop by our booth to learn about our work and how we can fight tech bias together through co-design, collaboration, and research. Sign up to join our global network of contributors, explore other collaboration opportunities, or help us build our Unified Glossary on-site by translating into your local language, one word at a time. |
| Letro | Relaycorp | Letro is analogous to email, but conversations are end-to-end encrypted, spam is virtually impossible and users can communicate without the Internet too. |
| MapBond Connect Hub | Mapbond | MapBond Connect Hub is an innovative platform designed to foster connections and build communities. At our booth, attendees can experience a live demo of MapBond, a digital tool that maps social capital to enhance networking and collaborative opportunities. Engage directly and explore how MapBond facilitates connections through interactive maps, helping users share interests, locations, and activities. Join us to discover how you can leverage MapBond to strengthen your networks and community engagements, all within a user-friendly digital environment. |
| Numun Fund | Numun Fund | The first dedicated fund for feminist tech in, and for the Larger World. Our aim is to seed and sustain feminist technology infrastructure for movement organising, and we understand digital technologies to be an important part of movement infrastructure. |
| Omidyar Network’s digital trust and safety strategy | Omidyar Network | Come learn more about Omidyar Network, our approach to grantmaking, and our strategy as it relates to Digital Trust and Safety. |
| OONI Run v2 Demo | Open Observatory of Network Interference | Stop by the OONI booth to see a demo of our improved OONI Run tool! This tools helps people crowd source network measurements and we currently working on improvements requested by the community. Stop by to see how it works! |
| Open Culture Foundation | Open Culture Foundation | We want to share the newly released report about Taiwan's human rights defenders' cybersecurity situation and how we used these results to develop a 1-year information security support service specifically designed for Taiwan's human rights defenders, especially those confronting digital authoritarian countries. |
| Open Technology Fund | Open Technology Fund | OTF would like to host a booth at Global Gathering to showcase our organization’s funding and service options for participants. The booth will include informational brochures, an outline of support services to the community, and a highlight of our key funding mechanisms. OTF looks forward to the opportunity to meet with community members in the Internet freedom space and offer support for their programs. |
| The Palestine Booth | Collective | The battles we fight share the same roots no matter where we are in the world. As we approach one year 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 76 years of occupation, how it intersects deeply with our spaces, and how we – as digital rights activists, academics, researchers, technologists, and journalists – can and should shape our work to engage meaningfully. We would also use the space to honor the lives of our martyrs, share art, and raise funds for our contacts in Gaza. |
| PigeonHut: Get shredded for your bodily autonomy | Digital Defense Fund, Plan C, Amnesty International USA | What do pigeons, (USB) condoms, paper shredders and doulas have to do with your bodily autonomy? Whether abortion laws target providers, supporters, or pregnant people themselves, the criminalization of abortion care involves the surveillance of bodies. Personal data generated in the course of everyday life can become evidence used in prosecutions against those seeking or assisting in reproductive justice. Visit this space if you're looking for abortion pill info, to brainstorm & discuss ways to meet the challenges to bodily autonomy in a digital world. We’ll have people-powered paper shredders on site! |
| PiRogue Tool Suite (PTS) | Defensive Lab Agency | This booth will demo the PiRogue Tool Suite project, allows attendees to test the PiRogue and ask questions about its usage and features. The booth will have a PiRogue running and attendees will be able to see it in action and get the network traffic of their mobile phone being analyzed. The main PTS developer, along with an expert in mobile forensics, will be there to explain how it works and answer technical questions. |
| Quiet: A "Slackier Signal for secure team chat" | Quiet | Quiet is building an alternative to Slack & Discord for human rights defenders with a focus on encryption, deletion, and usability. Worried about the security of your Slack, Discord, or Telegram chats? Frustrated by the chaos of using Signal for a busy team or community? Come learn more about Quiet and let us learn more about your use case! |
| Snowstorm | Snowstorm | Snowstorm is a revolutionary internet censorship circumvention technology based on our founder's original software "Snowflake currently being used by Tor Snowstorm brings internet freedom to another level and we'd love to showcase the technology share thoughts and connect with people." |
| Usability and accessibility clinic | Accessibility LabUXD Lab Ura Design Decent Design |
Join us at our Usability and Accessibility Clinic, where you can connect directly with seasoned design, accessibility, and usability experts ready to assist you with your specific needs.This clinic invites tool teams, designers, developers, decision-makers, and project managers to engage in focused discussions about their usability and accessibility challenges. Whether you're seeking a second opinion on design features, struggling with user engagement strategies, or looking to enhance accessibility features, we are here to assist. |
| WEPN: Hardware pod & companion app for self-hosting internet freedom tools | WEPN | Cloud servers are reliable, fast and easy to set up... and also easy to block. WEPN, a hardware device and an open source mobile companion app, has removed technical barriers to host various tools (especially VPNs) from your home IP address. We look forward to collaborating with others to either distribute to more communities, or add other tools. Drop by for a demo! |
| Whats Happening In Myanmar | Myanmar Internet Project | The "Whats Happening In Myanmar" exhibit serves as a vital platform for shedding light on the critical security, threats, and risks associated with the military and digital coup in Myanmar. |
| Wiki-Advocacy: How the people behind Wikipedia work towards a better internet | Wikimedia Foundation | Everyone knows Wikipedia, but few know how its global volunteer community and the non-profit organization behind it work towards a more equitable digital ecosystem and in favor of regulations and public policies that keep the internet a free and open environment where rights are protected and free knowledge can thrive. Local Wikimedians will be present to share their important work and experiences filling the gender gap on Wikipedia, while the Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Advocacy team will be on hand to discuss its global work engaging governments to advance privacy, transparency, and freedom of expression online. Global Gathering attendees will be able to share their own priorities in these areas and to identify possible areas for collaboration with the global Wikimedia movement. |
