Digital Empowerment Library

This campaign exposes mass surveillance's ineffectiveness for security and incompatibility with human rights, urging transparency from companies in Latin America and public action to demand accountability.

This handbook provides guidance for election observers, diplomats, journalists, and human rights activists on how internet shutdowns undermine democratic elections. It offers tips and recommendations for navigating shutdowns and assessing the fairness and freedom of elections under such conditions. The handbook aims to equip key actors with the tools to understand the impact of internet shutdowns on elections.

This toolkit is designed to assist digital rights activists in navigating the complexities of digital identification systems. It provides a framework for understanding digital IDs by breaking down their distinct components, making it accessible for non-experts. While not a comprehensive analysis of digital ID systems or their risks, the toolkit offers practical language and guidance for campaigning, advocating, educating, and mobilizing around digital ID issues. It adopts a "choose your own adventure" format, allowing users to select a Persona and navigate through the stages of System, Harm, and Mitigation based on specific circumstances.

This resource addresses the issue of online gender-based violence (OGBV), emphasizing that it stems from deep-rooted gender inequalities and discriminatory social norms. While many forms of OGBV are extensions of traditional gender-based violence, the technological aspect of OGBV makes it more persistent, replicable, and scalable, enabling perpetrators to target women, girls, and other marginalized groups more easily. The toolkit explains various forms of OGBV, provides guidance on how to respond to it, and offers resources for support, including legal avenues, mental health services, and reporting mechanisms. Curated by the KRYSS Network, the toolkit draws on the experiences of feminists and activists defending digital spaces, making it a living resource for combating the growing problem of OGBV.

This resource examines the critical role of computational power in the development of large-scale AI systems and its concentration in the hands of a few dominant firms. It highlights how access to compute, along with data and skilled labor, is essential for building AI, yet it is increasingly monopolized within the tech industry. This concentration of compute resources influences the behavior of AI firms, drives toxic competition, and creates systemic risks, including environmental impacts and single points of failure in AI systems. The resource explores the political economy of AI, emphasizing the impact of computational infrastructure on who can build AI, the types of AI developed, and who profits. It also discusses the role of policy interventions such as industrial policy, export controls, and antitrust enforcement in addressing these issues, while considering the balance of economic and political power held by firms controlling compute resources.

This course focuses on understanding the intersection of human rights, algorithmic bias, and gender inequality in the context of AI. It explores the growing issue of algorithmic bias in modern life, its impact on work, culture, and privacy, and the urgent need for AI systems to be designed and deployed with a human rights-based approach. The course emphasizes the principle of equality, particularly gender equality, as a core human rights value that must be integrated into AI development. Participants will learn to identify biases, including gender and racial biases, and understand the role of intersectionality in AI. The course also teaches methods to mitigate bias and incorporate non-discrimination practices into AI design and implementation.

Amnesty's online course on Combating Gender-Based Violence Online aims to educate participants about the ways in which women and girls are targeted for violence and harassment on the internet. The course covers the manifestations and causes of online violence, its impact on human rights, and how it can translate into offline violence. It also highlights effective strategies to combat gender-based violence online. By the end of the course, participants will understand the issue and be equipped with tools to address it. The course lasts 90 minutes and offers a Certificate of Participation upon completion.

The Digital Security and Human Rights Course is designed to help individuals understand the intersection between digital security and human rights. In this course, participants will learn about the key threats in the digital world and how to protect themselves from them. They will explore the importance of defending privacy and freedom of expression online, as well as the core mechanisms and players involved in mass surveillance. The course also provides actionable steps for promoting digital security and human rights on a global scale. The duration of the course is 3 hours.

The ICTs for Feminist Movement Building: Activist Toolkit empowers activists, especially women’s rights advocates, to use ICTs for social justice, safe communication, and amplifying feminist voices while challenging stereotypes.

The Internet Governance course examines Internet management by governments, private sectors, and civil society, focusing on its history, actors, policy, infrastructure, multilingualism, cybersecurity, and the multistakeholder model.