While technologies are often seen as sources of solutions, they can also amplify social, political, and environmental crises. We empower individuals and communities to navigate these challenges and the impacts of digital technologies. Collaborating with an international network, we co-create public interventions, exhibitions, resources, and training programs to:
An engaging display and activation focused on technology, AI, data privacy, digital security, and online well-being. It features a customizable interactive mural with your logo and takeaway cards designed like detox cocktails, offering practical digital wellness tips. The large-scale version is ideal for exhibitions and conferences, while the medium and small versions fit seamlessly into almost any space—making it a versatile solution for any setting.
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An engaging, portable exhibition featuring playful posters and interactive activities that explore technology, Artificial Intelligence, and their impacts. Designed for young audiences but captivating for adults, this experience is ideal for exhibitions, conferences, and smaller venues like libraries, schools, and community centers. Available in multiple languages.
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Our partner, Caceroliando plays a crucial role in empowering communities through creative storytelling, contributing significantly to Colombia’s peacebuilding efforts. This article highlights their collaboration with Tactical Tech’s Exposing the Invisible project, showcasing how they equip activists with media skills to document social justice and reconciliation.
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Our partners Casa Criatura are a creative hub in Brazil that transforms school spaces into vibrant learning environments. Through interactive exhibitions and collaborations with Tactical Tech, they engage young people in critical discussions on technology, privacy, and digital security.
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In this article, I'll share some of the key lessons we've learned about navigating the complex world of digital security. I'll look at how to identify the right tools, services, resources, and organisations to protect your community, network, or organisation from cyber threats - and why this work is more important than ever.
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Read morePieces written to help people and organisations understand what it means to work in a tech and data-saturated environment.
In this article, I'll share some of the key lessons we've learned about navigating the complex world of digital security. I'll look at how to identify the right tools, services, resources, and organisations to protect your community, network, or organisation from cyber threats - and why this work is more important than ever.
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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.
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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.
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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
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This public intervention and interactive experience invites visitors to reflect on how technology impacts their lives and society. Available in multiple formats, from large-scale exhibitions to low-cost self-print formats, it is easily used and adapted. It features printed and digital poster exhibitions, animations, apps, workshop curricula, and other assets in around 30 languages.
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The Data Detox Kit, available in over 45 languages, offers tips, tools, and concrete steps to improve your online life, enabling informed choices and personalized digital habits. It includes over 30 guides, workshop outlines for educators, an alternative App Centre, and a resources page on digital privacy, security, environmental impact, wellbeing, and tackling misinformation.
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This youth initiative from Tactical Tech aims to empower young people to take control of their digital futures through education, co-creation, and capacity building. It features playful, youth-focused exhibitions, interactive activities, learning resources, and tools and methodologies for educators to engage young people in conversations about AI, technology, and their impacts.
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This e-learning interactive course advances and disseminates knowledge on media literacy, verification, and safe Internet navigation. The course contains simple explanations and real-world examples illustrating secure research and information-gathering methods. The modules feature engaging and creative formats, such as tutorials, quizzes, and interactive games.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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