Tactical Technology Collective
The Tactical Technology Collective or Tactical Tech for short is an international non-governmental organization in Amsterdam that has existed since 2003 with the aim of providing activists with digital information and aids, creating data security and awareness as well as competence for digital media .
activities
Tactical Tech provides various campaigns , web videos or toolkits and howtos on sites available and organized multiple multi-day meetings with workshops .
- 10 tactics
In 2009 a 50-minute film “ 10 Tactics ” was produced, in which strategies and practice for organized activism are conveyed using real examples .
- Me and My Shadow
Me and My Shadow is a website that helps to identify the possibilities for individual identification and monitoring users leave behind in their everyday use of the various Internet services . In addition, tools for recovery via informational self-determination are suggested and explained, such as browser plug-ins ( Do Not Track , NoScript , Ghostery , etc.) or programs for network monitoring such as Wireshark or the search engine DuckDuckGo
Me and My Shadow won a 2013 Bob Award in the “ Most Creative and Original ” category.
"Me and My Shadow presents in very playful and visually compelling way a means of allowing online users to see the digital traces that they leave through their online activities - and offers easy solutions to fixing them."
" Me and My Shadow presents in a very playful and visually irresistible way the possibility for online users to see the digital traces they leave behind in their activities - and simply offers solutions."
Workshops, congresses and meetings
Several conferences or congresses on open source and activism have been organized:
- 2003: Summer Source Camp in Croatia
- 2004: Africa Source in Namibia
- 2006: African Source in Uganda
- 2005: Asia Source in Bangalore , India
- 2007: Asia Source in Sukabumi , Indonesia
- 2009: Asia Source in Silang , Philippines
Or third parties to existing events and platforms participates :
Personalities
The executive board consists of seven people:
- Ravi Agarwal , Andrew Anderson
- Katarzyna Szymielewicz , Rahul Bhargava
- Andre Wilkens and the founding members
- Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszynski
In total, the employed team consists of more than a dozen people.
Branches
Tactical Tech has offices in Berlin and Bangalore , India .
financing
Funding is provided by donations from private individuals or organizations, mainly ( as of 2014 ): The Oak Foundation , Hivos , Sida , the Open Society Institute and the Sigrid Rausing Trust , Internews Europe , the Ford Foundation and the American Jewish World Service .
See also
Web links
- official website
- Me and My Shadow
- 10 Tactics - the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tactical Technology Collective Website “Me and My Shadow” Receives 2013 Bob Award ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , frontlinedefenders.org, July 6, 2013. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
