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Coding Rights has developed a cartography to map the physical and geopolitical dimensions of the internet's structure, challenging the notion of the "cloud" as immaterial and apolitical. By materializing the cloud, this initiative highlights power dynamics, digital colonialism, extractive practices, and monopolies, emphasizing how gender, race, class, and other identities influence our relationship with technology.
Our Data Bodies (ODB) has created a Digital Defense Playbook, a resource with educational activities, tools, and reflections on data, surveillance, and community safety. It aims to promote data justice and equitable data access while fostering trusted models of community health and safety.
The Digital Grassroots Internet Literacy Course empowers youth on Internet Governance, focusing on security, social life, and economy. The Community Leaders programs train local leaders on internet health and advocacy strategies.
Digital Rights Monopoly is a simulation of the classic Monopoly game, focused on internet governance and digital rights challenges in marginalized regions. Created by Digital Grassroots, it fosters web literacy by engaging players in recognizing global internet issues and highlighting efforts to make internet governance more accessible worldwide.
The British Red Cross’s digital empowerment project supports refugee women in the UK, helping them adapt and integrate into society. By providing laptops, unlimited data for six months, and multilingual online workshops, the initiative equips women with essential digital skills. These resources enable participants to connect with others, access services, learn about their rights, and navigate life in the UK.
FRIDA has undertaken a deep reflection on the technology and platforms it uses, collaborating with cyberfeminist groups and coders to align its tools with the safety and resilience needs of young feminist human rights defenders. Acknowledging the political risks of suppression and persecution, FRIDA aims to support activism through sustainable and secure tech practices.
Media Defence’s resources on false news, misinformation, and propaganda examine their causes, impacts, and regulatory challenges. False news, defined as intentionally misleading and verifiably false information, has proliferated with social media, fueling polarization and affecting rights like freedom of expression and fair elections. However, broad prohibitions on false news often conflict with international freedom of expression standards, and state responses have been criticized for overreach.
Media Defence's Summary Modules explore how private actors restrict online content and freedom of expression. Key issues include defamation lawsuits used to silence criticism, challenges like net neutrality, and the growing influence of technology companies over content and access. Modules on topics such as defamation and misinformation provide concise insights into these challenges.
Media Defence offers resources to address challenges in digital rights and online freedom of expression. Their Modules highlight key barriers to internet access, such as infrastructure, costs, misinformation, and national security concerns. These modules provide an accessible introduction to these issues.
This online course equips learners with essential skills for data-driven decision-making. It focuses on developing critical thinking, understanding the value of data, and exploring how data transforms from analog to digital formats. Participants engage with real-world case studies covering ethical and legal issues in data use, enhancing their analytical capabilities for strategic decision-making.
