Digital security
As the Head of Digital for ARTICLE 19, Mallory Knodel integrates a human rights, people-centred approach to communications and technology work for social justice movements, specialising in cybersecurity policy advocacy. She was formerly a communications manager for APC.
The Riseup Collective is an autonomous body based in Seattle with collective members world wide. Their purpose is to aid in the creation of a free society, a world with freedom, without oppression or hierarchy, where power is shared equally. They do this by providing communication and computer resources to allies engaged in struggles against capitalism and other forms of oppression.
A venture that strives to connect techies to progressive causes and local communities in need of their skills. Years before it was named, the people behind Motoon have been at the center of multiple overlapping communities of techies, activists, artists and citizen journalists. Today, through Motoon’s tech hub (Mushtarak) and other projects, they are set to interact with techies from varying ...
Kéfir is a libre/free tech feminist coooperatives for activists, human right defenders, journalists, civil society organizations, collectives, artists that aims to build safe and free (as in freedom) spaces in internet.
Kéfir is a libre/free tech feminist coooperatives for activists, human right defenders, journalists, civil society organizations, collectives, artists that aims to build safe and free (as in freedom) spaces in internet.
Natasha Msonza is a digital rights defender and trainer. She is currently the director of policy and governance for the ISOC-Zimbabwe chapter and co-founder of the Digital Society of Zimbabwe, a voluntary network of technologists that specialises in building the digital resilience of human rights defenders at risk. Natasha's work involves undertaking organisational security ...
Ian Peter was one of the original founding Directors of APC, and was involved in early internet networks since the mid 1980s. He has maintained a continuing involvement with civil society involvement in internet issues, and has been a past Co-coordinator of the Internet Governance Caucus and the first Chair of the Civil Society Coordination Group (CSCG) – a coalition of coalitions involved in...
Social Media Exchange (SMEX) is a registered Lebanese NGO that works to advance self-regulating information societies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Their work encompasses media development programmes as well as internet policy research and digital rights advocacy in support of more accessible, participatory, and just enabling environments for civil society across the MENA region. ...
eQualit.ie is a Montréal-based organisation focused on developing and helping others use open, secure and reusable systems. Their work has a focus on privacy, online security, and information management. eQualit.ie's goal is to create accessible technology and improve the skill set needed for defending human rights and freedoms in the digital age. The team has developed tools an...
Thai Netizen Network is a leading nonprofit organisation in Thailand that advocates for digital rights and civil liberties. Founded in December 2008, it grew out of a group of netizens who had concerns about limited internet freedom during post-coup governments. Its activities are based on five themes: 1) access to information, 2) freedom of opinion and expression, 3) privacy, 4) participa...
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