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.
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.
Request for Proposals (RFP): Event Facilitator
Team CommUNITY (TCU) is looking for a high EQ, dynamic and approachable facilitator for our 2024 Global Gathering!
BCJB: Getting to Know their Work Improving Journalist Safety on the US-Mexico Border
We talked with Jorge Luis Sierra, president of the Border Center for Journalists and Bloggers (BCJB), which provides support and resources for journalists and bloggers working on the Mexican-US border. This post is part of our new Community Series, where we share stories of the people and projects behind the digital Rights community!
2024 Global Gathering Now Accepting Applications!
The 2024 Global Gathering (GG) will take place on September 27, 28, and 29 in Estoril, Portugal. The event brings together digital rights networks from around the world for three days of collaboration building, knowledge sharing, brainstorming, and rejuvenation. Now Accepting Applications. Deadline: April 15!
Request for Proposals (RFP): Event Logistics and Production 2024
Team CommUNITY (TCU) is looking for a Portugal-based vendor who can partner with TCU events staff and leadership to implement the necessary logistics and operations to execute TCU’s second Global Gathering of digital rights leaders and subject matter experts following the COVID-19 pandemic.
We Are Looking for an Event Coordinator!
Team CommUNITY (TCU) is looking for an Event Coordinator to manage the complex logistics and sensitive communications necessary to support event planning at TCU. Our online programs and services offered to our network throughout the year culminate in an annual Global Gathering bringing together highly diverse, global participants with unique physical and digital security needs. Candidates should be collaborative and proactive problem solvers with a strong management sense and attention to detail. Candidates should have a demonstrable track record of community management, communications, and experience with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). They should also have experience in international non-profit organizations.
Announcing the 2023 VPN Village!
The 2023 VPN Village is an online workshop series which includes several experts and users insights around the world. The sessions will be spread out during the last week of November and first week of December. VPN is a tool that allows users to protect their security and anonymity online and, in some cases, access censored content. This year the workshops will focus on regional user education, legal challenges to using VPNs, and using and scaling your own circumvention tools.
Global Gathering 2023 Recap & Team CommUNITY’s Future Plans
We are happy to report that Team CommUNITY’s first annual Global Gathering post-pandemic took place from September 15th to 17th, 2023. This year’s “alpha” event was a success as part of a three-year vision to grow the event to the impact, size, and scope achieved pre-pandemic in a sustainable way that prioritizes the safety of our community.
In this blog post we are sharing some of our event’s learnings, important updates about TCU’s programming and what to expect in 2024!
TCU Featured on Portugal’s Most-Watched News Program After Meet and Greet Event
IUS OMNIBUS, a Portugal-based citizen protection and digital rights organization, organized an event to welcome the Team CommUNITY’s Global Gathering to Portugal. In attendance were diverse Portuguese civil society organizations, companies, government officials, and open source community leaders. We had the opportunity to present our three-year vision, and begin discussions on how it could better support the local Portuguese community in coming years.