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The Chinese Internet’s Hidden Victims: Uncovering and Healing the Scars of Online Abuse
Washington, DCA special feature on cyberbullying by 歪脑 WHYNOT, nominated for a 2023 Webby Award
In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end encryption.
Attack Detector
Brazil (Brasil)An AI tool that detects cyber harassment of journalists journalists and environmental activists in Mexico and Brazil on Twitter
Free service to create a personal VPN on your server. Helps to access blocked content without revealing privacy even to VPN providers.
Website that shows you all the information other websites can glean when you visit them
Secure the Future of Mobility
An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States
Have a secret that you want to share? Why not hide it in a picture?
Risk Assessments Made Beautiful! A framework and methodology to holistically assess an organization’s digital health, highlight areas of excellence, and provide a visual roadmap of recommended improvements.
People can request digital security help using their everyday messaging apps. We provide secure Signal, Whatsapp & Telegram channels for your community.
privacy filters for shared location links
Turn your photos and videos into secure, signed visual evidence
Save (Share Archive Verify Encrypt) by OpenArchive enables you to safely preserve, organize, and share your mobile media. Designed with and for newsrooms, human rights defenders, and archivists, Save keeps you in control of your mobile media at all times.
Disinformation is threatening our ability to get credible facts. Built on our trusted technology stack, Waterbear helps you fight back.
MetaCert tells you which links are safe and which websites you can trust.
Bonterra
United States of America (the)Parent brand of EveryAction, NGPVAN, Network for Good, and more
A guide written by targets of cyber-attacks that is designed for women, people of color, trans and genderqueer people, and everyone else whose existing oppressions are made worse by digital violence.
Siberkreasi
JakartaSiBerkreasi is a national movement to overcome the biggest potential threats that are being faced by Indonesia, namely the spread of negative content through the internet such as hoaxes, cyberbullying and online radicalism.
NATO Stratcom Communications Centre of Excellence
Riga, LatviaNATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
Al Sur
South America"Al Sur" is a consortium of organizations that work in civil society and academia in Latin America and that seek with their joint work to strengthen human rights in the digital environment of the region.
Organized an e-conference for over 150 women candidates for elected office in Uganda, with a focus on navigating social barriers to political participation, including misinformation and cyberbullying.
a research project and a research collective exploring the politics of big data broadly defined. We take a critical look at massive data collection, privacy and surveillance | social movements, activism and internet activism | internet infrastructure, cybersecurity and their governance | open data and civic tech networks.
Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.
The Sage project will design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge.
Digital Equity Laboratory at The New School
The New School, East 13th Street, New York, NY, USAThe Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems.
US GAO Innovation Lab
Washington, DCAt the Innovation Lab, an arm of the Science, Technology Assessment, and Analytics team at the Government Accountability Office, we’re using emerging technology to rethink analytics, auditing, and cybersecurity.
utility for getting information about the APKs that are installed on your device
Confirmado
GuatemalaGuatemalan collaborative fact-checking platform with digital training and educational courses, through which journalists can educate themselves on open source intelligence (OSINT), disinformation analysis and digital safety.
Tor Browser for Android Experience real private browsing without tracking, surveillance, or censorship.
A privacy-focused web browser for use with Orbot, based on Tor Browser
Defending Digital Campaigns makes our political process more secure by providing political parties and campaigns with knowledge, products and services to defend themselves from cyber threats and attacks.
KivuHub
Ave LumumbaKivuHub is a community hub of entrepreneurs, developers, business and startups with the right technological skills and business.
A short guide to help keep journalists and their sources safe
Report: RT and Sputnik's Role in Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem - United States Department of State
Russian Federation (the)US State Department report on state-funded misinformation
U.S. Digital Corps
Washington, DCThe U.S. Digital Corps is a two‑year government fellowship to launch your career at the intersection of technology and public service.
Guardian Project creates easy to use secure apps, open-source software libraries, and customized mobile devices that can be used around the world by any person looking to protect their communications and personal data from unjust intrusion, interception and monitoring.
Mailfence
Rue Middelbourg, Watermael-Boitsfort, BelgiumSecure and private email service with collaboration suite.
Berkman Klein Center for the Internet and Society
Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA, USAWe are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.
Building resilient systems to keep civil society safe online
CryptoHarlem
Harlem, Manhattan, New York, NY, USACryptoHarlem is a Digital Surveillance Clinic that has been meeting on a monthly basis since 2013 in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. It is always open to the public and completely free of charge.
Digital Attack Map
New York CityDigital Attack Map visualizes the most powerful DDoS attacks happening in the world right now
SAFETAG adapts traditional penetration testing and risk assessment methodologies to be relevant to smaller non-profit organizations.
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.
We support Human Rights Defenders facing digital threats and work to strengthen local rapid response networks.
Cloudflare for Campaigns
101 Townsend St San Francisco, CA 94107It 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.
Project Galileo
101 Townsend St San Francisco, CA 94107If 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
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