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People will not (and should not) use tech that's untrustworthy. Too many tech projects, including civic tech projects, have abused user privacy and/or failed users in providing a secure user experience. Anyone advocating for increasing digitization of government, social benefits, or public conversation should invest in strong digital security and privacy-respecting approach from the onset and on an ongoing basis, as this area evolves rapidly.

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Colnodo

Colnodo

Colnodo, Diagonal 40a, Bogota, Colombia

Digital security training and resources in Colombia

Gender and Technology Resources wiki

Gender and Technology Resources wiki

Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany

This wiki is dedicated to document initiatives around gender and tech, privacy and digital security that are organised by participants to the trainings and activities related to the program “Securing Online and Offline Freedoms for Women: Expression, Privacy and Digital Inclusion”.

The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)

The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a free software project that aims to empower decentralized efforts in increasing transparency of internet censorship around the world. You can run OONI Probe to collect evidence of internet censorship.

Privacy International

Privacy International

62 Britton Street, London EC1M 5UY, UK

We’re here to protect democracy, defend people's dignity, and demand accountability from the powerful institutions who breach public trust.

Discotechs

Discotechs

Detroit

At the Data DiscoTech young people learned about what data is, unique ways to create data visualizations, and how to collect and analyze data.

Fundación Karisma

Fundación Karisma

Transversal 22a #59-44, Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia

Organización de la sociedad civil que trabaja en la promoción de los derechos humanos en el mundo digital

Digital Attack Map

Digital Attack Map

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Digital Attack Map visualizes the most powerful DDoS attacks happening in the world right now

Calyx Institute

Our mission is to educate the public about privacy in digital communications and to develop tools that anyone can use. By embracing "privacy by design," we help make digital security and privacy more accessible to everyone.

Facebook Tracking Exposed

Facebook Tracking Exposed

Italy (Italia) 🇮🇹

a project to improve the transparency behind Facebook’s algorithms

ICRC Rules on Personal Data Protection

ICRC Rules on Personal Data Protection

Avenue de la Paix 19, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland

The ICRC responds quickly and efficiently to help people affected by armed conflict. We also respond to disasters in conflict zones, because the effects of a disaster are compounded if a country is already at war.

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity

Guide to organizational security

Guide to organizational security

The Engine Room, Albany Street, London, UK

We partnered with the Ford Foundation to look at how civil society can strengthen their digital security, what and who is out there to support them, and how they can develop better digital security practices.

Safetag

SAFETAG adapts traditional penetration testing and risk assessment methodologies to be relevant to smaller non-profit organizations.

Digital Defense Fund

Digital Defense Fund

United States of America 🇺🇸

We are Digital Defense Fund, and we do digital security for the abortion access movement.

Data Harm Record

Data Harm Record

Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK

The aim of this document is to provide a running record of ‘data harms’, harms that have been caused by uses of big data. The goal is to document and learn from where things have gone wrong.

Digital Defenders Partnership

We support Human Rights Defenders facing digital threats and work to strengthen local rapid response networks.

Cities Coalition for Digital Rights

Cities Coalition for Digital Rights

United Nations Avenue Nairobi, Kenya 00100

We, the undersigned cities, formally come together to form the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, to protect and uphold human rights on the internet at the local and global level.

eclips.is

eclips.is is a free, lightweight platform where you can launch your (virtual) servers. It is funded by Open Technology Fund (OTF) to facilitate an easy accessible cloud infrastructure.

Cloudflare for Campaigns

Cloudflare for Campaigns

101 Townsend St San Francisco, CA 94107

It is designed to make it easier for all political campaigns and parties, especially those with small teams and limited resources, to get access to cybersecurity services.

Netzpolitik

Netzpolitik

Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪

netzpolitik.org ist eine Plattform für digitale Freiheitsrechte.

Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR)

Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR) is an open-source communication standard to increase the transparency, legibility and accountability of digital technology in the built environment.

Netfreedom Pioneers

We are a technology nonprofit developing innovative anti-censorship tools and sending life-changing information anywhere the Internet doesn’t reach.

Civic Data Privacy Leaders Network

Civic Data Privacy Leaders Network

MetroLab Network, 777 6th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001

A collaborative that will provide an active, authoritative resource for municipal leaders to navigate emerging privacy issues, share practical guidance, and promote fair and transparent data practices

Surveillance Self-Defense

The Surveillance Self-Defense guide from the Electronic Frontier Foundation provides expert tips, tools, and how-to's for safer online communications and protecting against online spying

Gender and Technology Institutes

Gender and Technology Institutes

Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, Germany

In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

Defend Our Movements

Defend Our Movements is a web based clearinghouse of the most up-to-date and useful information about protecting your devices and data—whether on the Internet, through cell phone communications, or in your home or office.

Tor Project

Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.

Intra

Intra

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Intra is an Android app that protects against DNS manipulation, making it easy to access blocked websites and apps and get safer access to the internet.

Project Galileo

Project Galileo

101 Townsend St San Francisco, CA 94107

If you are an organization working in the arts, human rights, civil society, journalism, or democracy, you can apply for Project Galileo to get Cloudflare’s cybersecurity protection

SecureDrop

SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can use to securely accept documents from and communicate with anonymous sources.

European Digital Rights (EDRi)

European Digital Rights (EDRi) is an association of civil and human rights organisations from across Europe. We defend rights and freedoms in the digital environment.

Community Lab at Open Tech Fund

Community Lab at Open Tech Fund

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036

The Community Lab provides services that empower the community to become stronger and vibrant by focusing on cultivating deeper trust relationships, improving knowledge share and collaboration, and supporting and diversifying the next generation of leaders.

Psiphon

Psiphon

Canada 🇨🇦

Psiphon is a free and open-source internet censorship circumvention tool that uses a combination of secure communication and obfuscation technologies, providing open access to the internet for millions of citizens around the world.

Tella

Tella

Washington, DC

Tella is a secure documentation app for Android, making it easier and safer to produce verifiable evidence and collect data in challenging environments

The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto

The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto

Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, Canada

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

ElectionGuard

Protecting democratic elections through secure, verifiable voting

Jigsaw

Jigsaw

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

How can technology make people in the world safer?

Open Tech Fund (OTF)

Open Tech Fund (OTF)

2025 M Street Northwest, Downtown, Washington, DC 20036

We support the research, design, development, and deployment of technology-focused projects that counter online censorship and combat repressive surveillance, to enable global internet users to exercise their fundamental human rights online.

Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab

The Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab (TCIL or Lab) will find and nurture technologically feasible, testable pilot projects which begin to solve some of the hardest cyber problems afflicting the national security industrial base and our country.

Who Targets Me

Did Facebook ads win the presidency for Donald Trump? Did they cause Brexit? Are they changing the way democracy works? Install Who Targets Me to find out who’s using Facebook ads to win your vote – and how they’re doing it.

MIT Privacy Legislation: Law and Technology

MIT Privacy Legislation: Law and Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.

Digital Rights Monopoly

Digital Rights Monopoly is a game that reflects core digital rights issues affecting youth in marginalized regions, and offers pathways to build a healthier internet in local communities.

PersonalData.IO

PersonalData.IO

Impact Hub Geneva, Rue Fendt, Geneva, Switzerland

A collaborative tool to display data records on a map. Your data, Your control, Your options

OKTHANKS

OKTHANKS

United States of America 🇺🇸

Okthanks is an independent organization providing research and product design services for open source technology. We unite with a mission to leverage technology for social good.

La Asociación de Tecnología, Educación, Desarrollo, Investigación, Comunicación (TEDIC)

Desarrollamos tecnología cívica abierta: Promovemos el uso y desarrollo de software y hardware libre, diseño abierto y datos abiertos

The Digital First Aid Kit

The Kit offers a set of self-diagnostic tools for human rights defenders, bloggers, activists and journalists facing attacks themselves, as well as providing guidelines for digital first responders to assist a person under threat.

SOAP Security for Organisations through Automated Policymaking

The free and simple tool that enables civil society organizations to build better security policies.

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