D3 - Getting to Know Their Work Advocating for Digital Rights for Portuguese Citizens
D3 - Defesa dos Direitos Digitais (Defense of Digital Rights) fight and advocate for digital rights in Portugal, even though related challenges are still relatively unknown by their society. We talked with D3’s president, Ricardo Lafuente, to learn more about their work in Portugal and beyond. He shared his views on a variety of topics, from video surveillance in public spaces to the necessity of local tech investment and the impact of the Digital Nomad visa on Portugal.
2024 Global Gathering Report: Advancing Digital Rights Resilience through Community Building and Solidarity
The 2024 Global Gathering (GG) report brought together over 1,000 digital rights defenders for three days of networking, collaboration, and discussions on digital rights and Internet Freedom issues impacting civil society and the media. This includes disinformation, online harassment, freedom of expression, press freedom, circumvention technologies, and encrypted communication technologies, and future of AI, among others.
Resilience Technologies: Getting to Know their Work in Advancing Cybersecurity for CSOs the African Way
Resilience Technologies (RT) is a Sub-Saharan African organization committed to enhancing digital security and resilience for African civil society initiatives and at-risk communities. Learn about their pioneering Spyware Fellowship program in Africa, and their tool, Zeroth Cloud, which detects and addresses threats before they can develop into attacks.
Building Safety into Digital Inclusion: Key Takeaways from the USA’s Digital Equity Act Report
Building Safety Into Digital Inclusion Efforts: Risks and Opportunities in the Digital Equity Act takes a deep dive into the expansion of broadband access in the USA, and it highlights the importance of building safety and cybersecurity into digital inclusion efforts. Team CommUNITY’s staff were interviewed for the report, which provides recommendations to USA state and territory broadband offices regarding what they can do to mitigate the potential harms.
Guardian Project: Getting to Know their Work Creating Easy-to-Use, Secure and Open Source Apps for Mobile Devices
Guardian Project creates easy-to-use secure mobile tech apps, open-source software libraries, and other tools and services that are widely used by average citizens looking to secure their rights to activists, journalists, and humanitarian organizations from around the world aiming to safeguard their work. We talked with Guardian Project’s Community Manager to learn more about their celebrated work.
Conexo: Getting to Know Their Work Fostering Security and Advanced Tech Skills in LATAM and Beyond
Conexo works with high-risk groups providing diverse types of security support services, organizational security audits and training to groups so they can effectively mitigate security risks. This includes NGOs, LGBTQ+ networks, independent media, and human rights defenders. Find out their amazing work and how they are supporting the broader digital rights field.
Equality Labs: Getting to Know their Work in Caste Equity and Digital Security for Human Rights Defenders
Equality Labs is a Dalit feminist-led organization, challenging caste, gender roles, and historical violence online and offline. We talked with Sarita Sagar, deputy director of Equality Labs, to learn more about how the organization started, how the oppressive caste system abuses several communities, and the organization’s training and work in the digital era, which includes even challenging large corporations.
TCU at DRAPAC Series: Building a Digital Rights Community
In this DRAPAC Series conversation, Team CommUNITY (TCU) shared insights into our efforts in community building and creating spaces for communities most affected by digital rights challenges, including surveillance, censorship, and digital security threats. Learn more from the recorded interview with TCU's community manager, Mardiya Siba Yahaya, who was the guest speaker at this session of the Digital Rights Asia-Pacific (DRAPAC) Series.
The Tor Project: Getting to Know the Most Important Project Making the Internet Accessible, Without Tracking and Surveillance
The Tor Project is a well-known nonprofit organization with the mission to advance human rights by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies. It is responsible for the Tor network, Tor browser and circumvention tools like Snowflake. We talked with Tor’s Executive Director Isabela Fernandes, and Tor’s Communications Director Pavel Zoneff to learn more about the project’s work.
The Calyx Institute: Getting to Know their Work and Tools that Make Privacy and Security Accessible to Everyone
We talked with Nicholas Merrill, the Calyx Institute’s funder and a well known technologist and privacy advocate - he refused to hand over his customer’s data when requested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and spent twelve years taking them on. Learn more about Calyx’s mission, their initiatives and tools, including the celebrated open source, Android-based mobile operating system, CalyxOS!