20 years building communities’ capacity to tackle the challenges created by technology

• STUDIO

How do you respond in a crisis? Everything Will Be Fine is a public intervention and interactive experience that explores how people understand and respond to global crises like climate change and pandemics through the lens of technology. This hybrid intervention includes the work of more than 60 artists, technologists, researchers and investigators.

• INSTITUTE

The project offers comprehensive resources, workshops, and institutes on investigative tools and methodologies for civil society actors such as media organizations, experts, researchers, academics, investigators, and journalists. It fosters spaces for collaboration and exchange to enhance the capacity of today’s global community of digital and OSINT investigators.

• INSTITUTE

This project produces research, resources and masterclasses on digital influence, focusing on its impact on public opinion, particularly in politics. It examines the global industry companies that use digital technologies and personal data to shape opinions. The project offers an accessible database of industry actors, case studies, and research methodologies.

• In-The-Loop newsletters

In the Loop, Tactical Tech’s monthly newsletter, includes new releases, open calls, job opportunities, information about our partners, events, recommended resources and more.

• Project launches

From chatbots to deepfakes, AI-generated content is becoming increasingly common online. New AI tools make it easier, faster and cheaper to generate text, images, videos, and more. In turn, the harms that have always existed online – scams, harassment, polarisation and bias – are now being “supercharged” by AI.

• Open calls

Wir sind auf der Suche nach Partnerschaften mit formellen oder informellen, in Berlin ansässigen Jugendorganisationen und -institutionen, vor allem solchen, die mit jungen Menschen (13-18 Jahre) aus traditionell marginalisierten Identitäten oder Hintergründen arbeiten.

• Open calls

Are you a social worker, community leader, youth advocate, or educator working with teens? Tactical Tech is seeking organisations and individuals in Berlin interested in getting trained on digital literacy topics such as AI, misinformation, and digital privacy, accessing educational resources, and receiving financial support to host workshops or exhibitions in their communities.

• Impact Stories

Through a series of knowledge-exchange workshops conducted by our partner CITE in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 45 participants, including citizen journalists and civil society organisations, were equipped with skills in identifying information disorders, encryption methods, and secure communication channels.

• Impact Stories

Our partners International Young Catholic Students (IYCS) Africa are a non-profit organisation that, since 1937, have been empowering students across African countries to work for solidarity, freedom, justice and peace in the world.

• Impact Stories

Our partners Fundación Internet Bolivia.org work to raise public consciousness and stimulate discourse through learning platforms, both in the digital and the physical world, to enhance digital inclusion and data protection at the local level

• Impact Stories

Our partners Development Three Sixty are a vibrant NGO on a mission to address issues of misinformation, digital safety disinformation and hate speech in Zambia.

• Technology & Society Insights

We need to rethink how we deal with information in the context of crises. All of us, really. We, the digital users of the digitised information world, need to get a grip on things. How we explore the world, what and who we trust, and why, in the context of crises, has gotten too far out of our hands and needs to change. We need a place to come together. We need to reinvent how we talk about and solve difficult things while respecting any fundamental differences we might come to the table or screen with.

• Technology & Society Insights

We are in the business of developing tools that allow us to eat our own tail, and AI is the new big mouth that we have just invented to help us with this self-consuming task incredibly effectively. In this spiral of self-consumption, everything tastes the same - it is impossible to verify sources and provenance and impossible to separate disgusting opinions from facts. It seems that fiction is much more popular than non-fiction in this reading club of self-consumers.

• Technology & Society Insights

Understanding the real scale and scope and consequences of the environmental crisis depends on how digital technology influences our thinking about it in terms of scale and depth and short and long term consequences, as well as what solutions we can imagine to create and deploy against all this chaos. Text by Marek Tuszynski

• Technology & Society Insights

Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines educator scoping sessions, research, literature review and youth input sessions, Tactical Tech identified insights and recommendations about topics, formats and facilitation methodologies crucial to creating effective Digital and Media Literacy Educational resources.