September 9 2025 Agenda
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12:00 to 13:00: Lunch and Networking Hour
Check out the various food vendors and connect with participants in a beautiful setting.
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Self-Organized Socials |
| Arrange or check out the list of Self-Organized Socials taking place off-site (but close by) locations, ranging from meetups to numerous activities. https://pad.riseup.net/p/GGSocials | |
| A Sample of Today's Socials: |
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Circles and VillagesYou 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 | Which free software alternative for which needs | From Seas to Skies: The New Frontiers of Internet Governance | AI Risk Mitigation from the Trainer and Civil Society Organization Point of View |
| Circle 2 | VPN Providers: Building a Unified Front to Ensure Our Collective Sustainability | Leading AI Detection: Deepfakes, Provenance & Protection | Who’s Writing Our Story? Documenting the why as well as the how |
| Circle 3 | Election Hold | Inside a Cross-Border Investigation on Surveillance and Censorship Tech | Mapping the Global Spyware Landscape: Perspectives, Gaps & Possibilities |
| Circle 4 | Device Searches Around The World: Building For Deniability | ||
| Circle 5 | The Practice of Joy: Sustaining Hope in the Tech Justice Movement | ||
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| Luminate Village | Effective Altruism: How can civil society and philanthropy respond? | Effective Altruism: How can civil society and philanthropy respond? | Effective Altruism: How can civil society and philanthropy respond? |
| Calyx Village | Secure Messaging in 2025 and What Comes Next? | Sketch It Out: Unblock Your Brain and Spark Creative Flow | |
| Circumvention Tech Village | VPN Guild | ||
| APC Village | |||
| Open Measurement Gathering (OMG) Village | Mapping Emerging Digital Rights Threats | Internet Measurement Research Questions and Ideas | Are You My Measurement Tool? |
| Digital Rights Sustainability Village | Brainstorm on Alternative Funding Models (Part 2) | Numun Fund Session Part 1 | A Listening Session on the Digital Rights Funding Collapse |
| Regional Topics A | |||
| Regional Topics B | TFGBV, Disinformation, and Platform Accountability in the Indo-Pak Conflict of 2025 | ||
| Name to Come | |||
| SWANA Village | |||
| Queer Rights Village | |||
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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. | ||||
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| Booth 4a | Psychological First Aid: Tools for Care and Connection by Vita Activa | Vita Activa | Secure Storyteller Network | Secure Storyteller Network | |
| Booth 4b | Amnezia VPN | Amnezia VPN | Amnezia VPN | Amnezia VPN | |
| Queer Rights Village
Booth 5 |
Logic(s) Magazine | Logic(s) Magazine | LooM SWANA | LooM SWANA | |
| Booth 6 | Open Source Design Collective | Open Source Design | Operator Foundation | Operator Foundation | |
| APC Village
Booth 7 |
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| Calyx Village
Booth 9 |
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| Booth 10 | VPN Generator: Get your own VPN here | VPN Generator | DT Institute, VPN, Datacasting, Off Grid Communications | DT Institute | |
| Booth 11 | Horizontal | Horizontal | Preserving Truth, Reclaiming Power - How to use Save by OpenArchive to get the boot off our necks ✊🏿✊🏾🤘🏽✊ | OpenArchive | |
| Circumvention Technology Village
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| Booth 13 | Claw Back Your Data | Lockdown Systems | TIHOMA | TIHOMA | |
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| Booth 15 | Disrupt the business of harm: Make surveillance-tech less profitable | Coalition for Surveillance-Tech Accountability: Freedom House, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, & FIND | Mobile Forensics and Mobile Auditing with SocialTIC | SocialTIC | |
| Booth 16 | IdHub: decentralized identity and verifiable credentials for communities and citizens | IdHub | Abrimos.info: TeseoETL revolutionize your data management | Abrimos.info | |
| Open Measurement Gathering (OMG) Village
Booth 17 |
Measurement Lab and the Internet Quality Barometer | Measurement Lab | Censored Planet | Censored Planet | |
| Booth 18 | WITNESS' Deepfake Rapid Response Force and AI Detection for Human Rights Defenders | WITNESS | BIRN's Digital Rights Monitoring and Research on Southeast Europe | Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) | |
| Booth 19 | Power to Voices | Oxfam Novib | Power to Voices | Oxfam Novib | |
| Regional Conversations A
Booth 21 |
Security Help Desk | Chequea.la | Urgent Action Fund Latin America and the Caribbean | Urgent Action Fund Latin America and the Caribbean | |
| Regional Conversations B
Booth 22 |
South Asia Village: Resisting Digital Injustice, Building Collective Resilience | Digital Rights Foundation | From Surveillance to Safety: Community-Driven Approaches to Digital Accountability in South Asia | Digital Rights Foundation | |
| Booth 78 | Effective Altruism: How can we respond? | Luminate | Effective Altruism: How can we respond? | Luminate | |
| Booth 79 | Effective Altruism: How can we respond? | Luminate | Effective Altruism: How can we respond? | Luminate | |
| Booth 80 | The ARISE Accountability Arcade: Feminist and Global South-Led Campaigns for Platform Accountability | Digital Empowerment Foundation - Project ARISE | Curious Shapes | Curious Shapes | |
| SWANA Village
Booth 81 |
Digital Citizenship Helpline: Community-Centered Digital Safety | Digital Citizenship | JOSA | JOSA | |
| Booth 82 | Palestine Booth | Solidarity Network of Palestinians and Allies | Palestine Booth | Solidarity Network of Palestinians and Allies | |
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Global Gathering After Hours |
| Karaoke!!! Our favorite pass time! |
Partners
Circle Descriptions
| AI Risk Mitigation from the Trainer and Civil Society Organization Point of View | Civil society organizations are rapidly adopting AI, outpacing their ability to mitigate the associated risks. Let's discuss, as a community, effective strategies for building this capacity while still leveraging the opportunities AI presents. |
| A Listening Session on the Digital Rights Funding Collapse | This circle is a space to share stories, identify emerging patterns, and begin mapping the impact of the funding collapse on our communities and networks. Whether you’ve been directly affected, are supporting impacted groups, or are simply trying to make sense of what’s happening—come share your story.
Over the past year, the digital rights ecosystem has been shaken by an unprecedented wave of funding cuts. Organizations across the globe—especially those led by and serving marginalized communities—have been forced to downsize, pause programs, or shut down entirely. This isn’t just a budget issue; it's a structural crisis with long-term implications for our collective safety, resilience, and ability to defend digital freedoms. |
| Brainstorm on Alternative Funding Models (Part 2) | This is part 2 of a three part circle series. As the digital rights field faces a historic funding crisis, many of us are asking: What now? We all are looking for alternative funding, but how do we organize for that? How do we prepare our organization to become more agile on fundraising? What options of alternative funding exist—from reimagined grantmaking models to untapped donors, ethical partnerships, and community-powered support. Together, we’ll surface bold ideas, share examples from adjacent movements, and identify who might be ready to fund this work—even if they haven’t yet. This session is about expanding our collective imagination and beginning to chart a path toward financial resilience rooted in solidarity, innovation, and justice. |
| Device Searches Around The World: Building For Deniability | This session gathers real-world experiences of device searches: for example, at borders, police checkpoints, and during detention. In the circle, participants can share (as much as they feel comfortable) what was inspected, why, and how these searches played out in different parts of the world.||Together, we'll examine these stories to exchange safety strategies, then move beyond individual tactics to envision the systemic changes our tools need. Drawing on our team's long history of advocating for harm reduction on platforms, we want to bring the desires, experiences, and expertise of the GG community into the conversation. We'll explore how to build harm reduction and deniability directly into device and app design -- from invisible messages and self-destruct functions to offline and online coded communication -- and think of new paradigms of what can be possible. |
| Effective Altruism: How can civil society and philanthropy respond? | Building collective knowledge about effective altruism, and the impact the movement is having on AI policy, among philanthropic organisations and civil society. Learning about the findings from previous work and explore how to take these learnings forward to explore strategies for responding to this movement’s incursion into the fields in which we work. |
| From Seas to Skies: The New Frontiers of Internet Governance | Beyond traditional areas of network and telecommunications governance, new tensions are increasingly reshaping what internet governance means: who is actually governing the new technologies that increasingly facilitate our internet connections? As companies like Google, Amazon, AWS, and Starlink expand their control over submarine cables, cloud infrastructure, and satellite networks, the longstanding approach to governing the internet stack through a set of well-known bodies like ICANN and the IETF is becoming more fragmented and contested. This circle will explore both the traditional venues of Internet governance and what is at stake there for the IF community as well as map how governance is shifting from traditional internet governance and technical standards bodies to new venues, and what civil society can do to prevent the consolidation of power over the internet. |
| Inside a Cross-Border Investigation on Surveillance and Censorship Tech | Join Amnesty Tech and InterSec Lab for a look at their groundbreaking collaborative investigation into surveillance and censorship technologies, which will be launched during the Global Gathering. Learn about the findings on how powerful digital tools are being traded and deployed across borders to suppress civic space. Together, we’ll explore:
+ The methodologies used to analyze and safeguard highly sensitive leaked data. + The secure platforms and workflows enabling cross-organizational collaboration. + Key investigative findings and their implications for the global digital rights community. Engage directly with investigators, learn replicable practices, and discuss the broader ecosystem enabling rights-abusing technologies to flourish. It’s also one of the first chances to respond collectively to the investigation’s revelations, as it launches in real time at the Gathering. |
| Leading AI Detection: Deepfakes, Provenance & Protection | Deepfakes are rapidly evolving—and so are the threats they pose. In this session, we’ll unpack how generative AI is being used to create increasingly realistic audiovisual content, and explore two key strategies for mitigating harm: provenance and detection. We’ll also spotlight emerging threats to those on the frontlines of media and human rights and invite participants into an interactive conversation to share experiences and strategies for collective defense. |
| Mapping the Global Spyware Landscape: Perspectives, Gaps & Possibilities | Led by partners of the Spyware Accountability Initiative, this interactive Circle invites participants to collectively map the diverse range of work, perspectives, and lived experiences related to spyware and surveillance technologies around the world. Whether you’re working on investigations, victim support, policy reform, tool development, or community education—this space is for you. We'll explore the following together:
+ What does spyware work look like across regions and sectors? + Where are the critical gaps in accountability, protection, and response? + How can we better connect efforts, reduce duplication, and amplify underrepresented voices? |
| Numun Fund Session Part 1 | |
| Secure Messaging in 2025 and What Comes Next? | Join the Phoenix R&D team for a conversation on what secure messaging looks like in 2025—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. |
| Sketch It Out: Unblock Your Brain and Spark Creative Flow | Feeling stuck? Overwhelmed? In this guided circle, we’ll use simple sketching and visual thinking to unlock creativity, ease mental clutter, and see familiar problems in a new light. No drawing skills needed—just a willingness to explore with pen and paper. Through a series of playful prompts and reflections, you’ll learn how visual expression can:
+ Calm a busy or anxious mind Help externalize and reframe challenges + Tap into intuitive, nonlinear thinking + Make space for clarity, insight, and even joy Come as you are. Leave with a few lines on a page and a lighter mind |
| TFGBV, Disinformation, and Platform Accountability in the Indo-Pak Conflict of 2025 | In May 2025, the Indo-Pak military escalations spilled into the digital sphere, where women and gender minorities became deliberate targets of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), gendered disinformation, and hate speech. Drawing on DRF's ""Digital Battlegrounds"" research and real-time monitoring from both sides of the border, this Circle will examine how online misogyny, AI-generated disinformation, and nationalist propaganda intersected during the conflict. Participants will explore platform accountability gaps, the role of algorithms in amplifying harm, and the urgent need for cross-border solidarity and policy reform in high-conflict contexts. |
| The Practice of Joy: Sustaining Hope in the Tech Justice Movement | In tech justice work, the harms and their impact of Big Tech often take center stage. Still, joy, humor, and creativity are also powerful tools of resistance, advocacy, and for sustaining hope in the present moment. This participatory circle invites you to reflect on the strategies that sustain hope and energy in movements and share moments when joy emerged in your work, even amidst struggle. This Circle reframes joy as a core strategy that sustains organizations and networks working on urgent issues, while disrupting oppressive systems, resisting burnout, and helping us imagine futures worth building Reflections and strategies shared will be put into a collective "Practices of Joy" Zine. This living resource will offer inspiration and concrete strategies for weaving it into our ongoing work. |
| VPN Guild | At last year's Global Gathering, a group of VPN developers sat down and asked: what if we actually joined forces? Not just to build better tech, but to push advocacy forward, share expertise, set real standards for security and privacy - and keep competition fair.
That question sparked the VPN Guild - an industry-wide association of VPN services. Now we're circling back: is this experiment working, what challenges do we face, what new doors are opening, and how can we shape the future together? |
| VPN Providers: Building a Unified Front to Ensure Our Collective Sustainability | The fight for a free and open internet is multifaceted, with countless VPN-focused groups are working on parallel tracks. While this diversity is a strength, it can lead to fragmented efforts and duplicated work. This circle aims to bridge these gaps by creating a space for urgent, strategic collaboration focused on sharing resources, knowledge, and tools. Potential discussion points: What are our common needs as service providers? How can we create a practical framework for sharing and co-developing open-source VPN tools and infrastructure to avoid reinventing the wheel? What initiatives and technology are helping reduce the costs of operation? How can we present ourselves as a united front to attract more funding from governments and the private sector We encourage VPN service providers, researchers, technology developers, adopters, and funders to join this crucial conversation. |
| Who’s Writing Our Story? Documenting the why as well as the how | Who decides what gets remembered, and why? Join us for an interactive session exploring how we document our organizations, our movements, and the moments that shape our lives. We’ll dive into the politics of memory, the power of storytelling, and the practical tools we use to capture and preserve our work. From everyday digital records to community archives, we’ll reflect on how to safeguard our stories and facts, without losing critical context along the way. |
| Which free software alternative for which needs | Migrating from software provided by tech giants or VC-funded companies towards self-hosted open-source software is important to ensure your data is not held hostage.||But not all those are created equal: some are more complex to migrate to, miss features that some think essential, or have other limitations that are hard to find before migrating to it.||We shall discuss different experience with different free or open-source software so each can find the one that fits their use case. |
| Mapping Emerging Digital Rights Threats | What should we be measuring to prepare for the future of digital rights?
Based on your work and experience, what major digital rights threats do you foresee emerging globally in the next decade? And as a community, how can we prepare? Join this interactive brainstorming session to share your insights, identify measurement priorities, and help shape a collective response to the evolving digital landscape. |
| Internet Measurement Research Questions and Ideas | Internet measurement data is only as valuable as the questions it helps us answer. What research questions should we be asking? What insights do you hope to uncover through internet censorship data? Join this interactive brainstorming session to share your ideas, highlight pressing research needs, and help shape the future direction of censorship measurement and analysis. |
| Are You My Measurement Tool? | Have you ever experienced an Internet shutdown or censorship event, but then didn’t know which open Internet measurement tool to turn to? Join the Open Measurement Gathering groups (Censored Planet, IODA, M-Lab and OONI) in a workshop designed to help guide you through which Internet measurement tool you need. Following Global Gathering, the OMG groups will release a public guide on which internet measurement datasets to refer to depending on the type of internet shutdown or censorship event you’re investigating. |
Booth & Village Descriptions
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| Amnezia VPN | Amnezia VPN | Amnezia VPN is an open-source project that helps people bypass internet censorship and protect their privacy. At our booth, we will present updates on our tools and research into how censorship is evolving, especially in authoritarian contexts.
We also want to create an interactive space that connects technology and art. Visitors will be able to: - Explore how we track and analyze website blocks across different regions - Listen to a playlist of songs banned in Russia for political, queer, or cultural reasons - Browse books with real examples of censored or redacted content - Contribute their own stories of censorship in music, literature, media, or code from their countries Together, we'll build a shared archive of artistic and digital resistance. The goal is to spark new conversations and collaborations between developers, researchers, and creatives. |
| Palestine Booth | Solidarity Network of Palestinians and Allies | As we approach two 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 77 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 Tatreez (embroidery) sessions to inspire conversations about solidarity through collective weaving. 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. |
| Psychological First Aid: Tools for Care and Connection by Vita Activa | Vita Activa | Through guided discussion, role-play, and reflective practice, attendees are introduced to Psychological First Aid (PFA) in an accessible, interactive, and practical way. Participants will learn how to recognize distress in themselves or others, offer immediate support, and connect peers with further resources. We will engage in guided discussion, role-play, and reflective practice and leave with concrete skills to apply in community spaces, activist contexts, and everyday life. Come join us! |
| Secure Storyteller Network | Secure Storyteller Network | Secure Storyteller Network (SSN): Protecting Stories, Protecting Storytellers
This interactive booth offers hands-on digital security support tailored for filmmakers, artists, and content creators working in high-risk environments. Drop by with your questions, hear frontline stories, set up client-side encryption tools on your phone, and design your own creative protection plan. Most uniquely, pause for a mini sound bath with our Tibetan singing bowl-let calmness stabilise resilience and help turn vulnerability into strength. |
| Logic(s) Magazine | Logic(s) Magazine | As the first queer Black and Asian tech magazine, Logic(s) is committed to interrogating the technologies (re)making our world. Our pages are filled with thoughtful analysis that refuses the violence of abstraction, surfacing the stakes of technologies enacted globally. Logic(s) centers the voices under constant threat of erasure-voices that remain outside, underexplored, and yet essential to thinking about technology. We will be distributing sample copies of our most recent issues at a Booth within the GG, while offering individual and institutional subscriptions and memberships to fellow organizations and attendees. At this critical juncture, Logic(s) is also looking for ongoing support to keep directing money to people across the globe, including advocates, academics, artists, gig workers, and people who are incarcerated-as well as creating new models of mentorship and professional development that support both our staff and contributors. |
| LooM SWANA | LooM SWANA | LooM SWANA is a regional LGBTIQ+ organization that aims to connect and intersect communities and human rights, internet freedom, digital rights, and holistic security themes to weave better futures for queer and trans people in South West Asia and North Africa "SWANA" region. This is more than an organization; it is a feminist intersectional dedication to creating better, just, and safe futures for LGBTIQ+ people throughout the region. |
| Open Source Design Collective | Open Source Design | Come and learn about what the volunteers at https://opensourcedesign.net/ (OSD) do and have supported as individuals and a collective over the 10+ years of existing. We also offer support as a 'Design/Usability/UX/UI clinic' where people can bring their open source projects to speak about their design and usability needs. How to plan for a design project in OSS? where is their funding available? what does openness and transparency look like in design? How can an OSS project learn from what other OSD designers in the network have produced? and of course, how to get involved as a maintainer or contributor as we evolve and grow the practice of design in OSS. |
| Operator Foundation | Operator Foundation | Operator Foundation develops open source software and hardware to support Internet freedom globally. The Operator Foundation booth will showcase open source secure communications hardware that Operator Foundation has developed over its ten years of operation. This includes tools for encrypted communication using satellites and radios during complete Internet shutdowns, as well as a tool developed to defeat the AI-based voiceprint identification being used to stop journalists from calling sources. |
| VPN Generator: Get your own VPN here | VPN Generator | VPN Generator lets you run your own VPN hub - you control the connection and decide who joins. It's a VPN for your crew, on your terms. At our booth, try two live demos: VPN Generator, where you distribute access to others, protected by a six-word passphrase only you ever see; and VPN Socket, a paid, influencer-branded VPN for instant personal use. See how easy it is to connect and help others bypass censorship and access a safe, private internet. |
| DT Institute, VPN, Datacasting, Off Grid Communications | DT Institute | We will showcase our cutting edge VPN, a cool datacasting method to send content to millions even during internet shutdowns, and will demo a comprehensive information distribution and communications apparatus we have put together for environments of high persistent threat that may be completely offline. |
| Horizontal | Horizontal | At Horizontal, we support activists, journalist and human right defenders with technology and trainings. At the booth, we will demo our 2 flagship products: - Tella (https://tella-app.org/): a free an open source tool to encrypt and hide files in your phone, and collect and share data even with limited or no internet connectivity or in the face of repression. - Shira (https://shira.app/): a web app to help users develop the skills needed to identify and defeat phishing attacks on email and messaging apps. We will also be available to discuss how we support organizations and activists and will love to hear feedback and requests to make our apps more accessible and usable to the community! |
| Preserving Truth, Reclaiming Power - How to use Save by OpenArchive to get the boot off our necks ✊🏿✊🏾🤘🏽✊ | OpenArchive | People armed with mobile devices are history's first responders, documenting world events and amassing evidentiary records of injustice. Save helps them Secure(ly) Archive, Verify, and Encrypt their crucial evidence. This will be a participatory demo where we'll foster strategic partnerships with those interested in learning how to use Save and other tactics to help their communities safely record and preserve their evidentiary media. |
| Claw Back Your Data | Lockdown Systems | The tech platforms that we all rely on are controlled by a tiny group of powerful billionaires who profit off our data, often selling it to AI companies and marketers. With the help of Cyd, people can claw back control of their data from Big Tech. Cyd is an open source project that helps users backup their data from X/Twitter, optionally migrate their tweets to Bluesky, and then delete what they want from X. In the booth, we will demo how Cyd works, and assist attendees to delete or backup their data. (If you want to delete all your tweets, request an archive from X ahead of time.) |
| TIHOMA | TIHOMA | TIHOMA is a Greece-based non-profit social media platform focused on promoting trustworthy information, combating disinformation, and fostering civic engagement. Currently in a closed pilot phase, we invite you to visit our booth to learn more, share insights, and sign up to have a first-hand experience of the application. |
| Disrupt the business of harm: Make surveillance-tech less profitable | Coalition for Surveillance-Tech Accountability: Freedom House, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, & FIND | Freedom House and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre ('BHRRC') have developed complementary reporting templates for civil society actors to utilize to hold abusive surveillance firms accountable for facilitating human rights violations. The templates are designed for civil society actors to fill out and submit to governments and investors, exposing the corporate actors responsible for facilitating harms and prompting governments and investors to hold those actors accountable. Specifically, the Freedom House reporting template aims to encourage government actors to impose costs on the mercenary market via financial sanctions, export control authorities, visa restrictions, and procurement authorities. And the BHRRC template aims to encourage investors to not fund abusive surveillance firms. FIND (fi-nd.org) works in collaboration with Freedom House and BHRRC to support investigative research into the companies behind these technologies, which augments the reporting templates. |
| Mobile Forensics and Mobile Auditing with SocialTIC | SocialTIC | In this booth, we will share the methodologies and resources we use at SocialTIC to perform mobile forensics and mobile application audits. These resources are designed to be open, collaborative, and community-oriented. |
| IdHub: decentralized identity and verifiable credentials for communities and citizens | IdHub | Since 2023, we develop IdHub, a digital identity management system for internet activist communities and citizens that pools and shares infrastructure for the management and cost-sharing of digital open content services.
IdHub addresses the need for more decentralized, verifiable, secure, privacy-respecting, and user-friendly ways to manage identity-related information for authentication, authorization, and accreditation. IdHub is open-source source and is developed by a community of activists. We welcome your contributions and comments. The primary technologies implemented include Decentralized Identifiers, Verifiable Credentials and OpenID Connect technologies within common credential schemas we define in our communities. It follows the EBSI model. These technologies allow for creating a trust chain that brings significant benefits to our communities. |
| Abrimos.info: TeseoETL revolutionize your data management | Abrimos.info | TeseoETL is an open-source, user-friendly data processing framework developed by Abrimos.info to simplify how journalists, researchers, and civic tech organizations access, transform, and utilize public data. Designed specifically with transparency and democratic accountability in mind, TeseoETL automates complex data workflows, enabling teams to quickly integrate data from multiple sources, streamline analysis, and generate strategic insights efficiently. Whether monitoring elections, tracking public procurement, or enhancing government transparency, TeseoETL makes it easy to turn raw, dispersed data into actionable knowledge. With a flexible design adaptable to diverse contexts across Latin America, TeseoETL helps organizations strengthen their digital infrastructure, empower communities with reliable data, and drive tangible impact toward more open and accountable governance. |
| WITNESS' Deepfake Rapid Response Force and AI Detection for Human Rights Defenders | WITNESS | WITNESS is known for it's AI detection trainings, either catered to fact-checkers, journalists and other civil society involved in elections, or with civil society facing information environments needing in these skills. The training sessions cover topics such as the capabilities and evolution of generative AI techniques, use of synthetic media in the context of elections, current AI detection approaches and introduction to the work of the Deepfakes Rapid Response Force. We will go over the harms and benefits in relying on AI detection tools, how to incorporate tools into the fact-checking pipeline, and other research and learning from the Deep Fake Rapid Response Force. |
| BIRN's Digital Rights Monitoring and Research on Southeast Europe | Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) | BIRN's booth will showcase the organisation's work on conducting systematic monitoring and in-depth research, with a strong focus on surveillance and censorship in the Western Balkans, as well as broader digital rights violations in ten Southeast Europe countries. The booth will also serve as an interactive community space for participants to engage with the team, be presented with, and ask questions on BIRN monitoring tools, methodologies, and recent research publications.
Researchers, monitors, civil society representatives, and journalists working in the field of digital rights are especially encouraged to participate |
| Power to Voices | Oxfam Novib | Power to Voices is a digital platform designed with and for activists, movements, and rights defenders to connect, learn, collaborate, and organize in a space that centers safety, inclusion, and collective power amidst the increasing risky digital organizing environment. It's where communities of practice live, campaigns grow, and ideas are documented and shared. From learning spaces and resource hubs to group discussions and action planning. A home for sustained organizing in the digital age |
| Measurement Lab and the Internet Quality Barometer | Measurement Lab | Founded in 2009, Measurement Lab (M-Lab) is an open platform for studying Internet performance and neutrality over time. M-Lab recently completed the first phase of the Internet Quality Barometer project, and published the IQB Framework in June 2025. The IQB project seeks to redefine internet quality beyond the single metric of speed by using available data. As M-Lab continues the IQB project to build a tool to score Internet quality, we are also interested in exploring ways to score Internet freedom with existing data. Come by our booth and share your thoughts! |
| Censored Planet | Censored Planet | Censored Planet is a research lab that investigates how internet access is being shaped and restricted around the world. As censorship tactics become more complex and harder to detect, we develop new ways to study these systems and understand who they affect. We focus on internet measurement, network security, and privacy to produce research and tools that support journalists, civil society, and the broader internet freedom community. |
| Security Help Desk | Chequea.la | A website security help line for latin american media outlets and CSOs. We will show our main tool and resources and will invite people to talk about web security, how to improve it by sharing experiences, best practices. |
| Urgent Action Fund Latin America and the Caribbean | Urgent Action Fund Latin America and the Caribbean | We invite you to learn more about the Urgent Action Fund Latin America and the Caribbean. We are a regional feminist fund, which contributes to the sustainability and strengthening of activists and their movements, with quick and agile support in situations of risk and opportunity.
We support the resistances, struggles and demands of the defenders in the transformation of injustice and inequality systems, putting feminist integral protection and care in the center. We know that in order to carry out our work, it is vital to think about feminist digital infrastructures from the South that are not privative and that allow us to put care at the center of technologies. |
| From Surveillance to Safety: Community-Driven Approaches to Digital Accountability in South Asia | Digital Rights Foundation | This booth will serve as an interactive community space that explores South Asia's evolving digital landscape through the lens of accountability, privacy, and resilience.
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| South Asia Village: Resisting Digital Injustice, Building Collective Resilience | Digital Rights Foundation | The South Asia Village booth is a collaborative regional space spotlighting community-led responses to digital authoritarianism, shrinking civic space, and corporate impunity in the digital realm across South Asia.
Curated by Digital Rights Foundation and Digital Accountability Collective South Asia (DACSA) the booth will center on initiatives that promote accountability, resilience, and inclusion in digital spaces, including:
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| Effective Altruism: How can we respond? | Luminate | A 'tech oligarchy' is emerging in the US, with Big Tech's power and control over our governments, societies and lives being exposed like never before. Amidst the AI hype we're witnessing, business and political leaders are lauding the potential of AI to solve the world's most critical problems, moving the conversation away from addressing real-world harms of AI including discrimination, bias, and disinformation. Join us for drop-in session on effective altruism, the impact the movement is having on AI policy, and strategies for philanthropy and civil society to respond to this movement's incursion into the fields in which we work. This will follow an open space format where participants are free to join and leave the conversation as is useful for them. |
| The ARISE Accountability Arcade: Feminist and Global South-Led Campaigns for Platform Accountability | Digital Empowerment Foundation - Project ARISE | The ARISE (Accountability and Responsibility in South's Ecosystems) Accountability Arcade is a feminist, Global South-led booth showcasing grounded, community-driven work on platform accountability. ARISE is a network of 50+ renowned organisations from across the Global South working on digital rights, governance, and justice. Digital Empowerment Foundation, the voluntary host of this year's ARISE Secretariat, is proposing this booth on behalf of the community. Through campaign displays, research spotlights, and interactive activities, ARISE members will present how communities across the South are confronting platform harms, algorithmic bias, and digital exclusion. It's a space to exchange strategies, share experiences, and build collective visions for fairer, more accountable digital ecosystems. |
| Curious Shapes | Curious Shapes | Come chat with us and explore some of the (many!) ways we've helped different projects, organizations and initiatives with communication, research and other strategic consultancy work! We aim to work and adapt to every organization's needs, especially if they're not quite typical. |
| Digital Citizenship Helpline: Community-Centered Digital Safety | Digital Citizenship | The Digital Citizenship Helpline is a support initiative that provides personalized digital safety assistance to women, activists, and at-risk communities across Tunisia and the Maghreb region. Our booth will highlight inclusive, community-led approaches to addressing cyberviolence, with tools, case insights, and real-world practices designed to make digital spaces safer and more accessible. |
| JOSA | JOSA | JOSA's Booth will showcase our work in empowering civil society organizations with open-source digital security tools, resources, and training. Visitors can explore practical solutions for protecting data, and building safer online environments. Our team will be on hand to , answer questions, and connect with potential collaborators. |
