While digital technologies hold great potential, they also amplify social, political, and environmental crises, threatening the foundations of democracy. We empower individuals, communities, and organizations to navigate these challenges. In collaboration with a global network, we co-create public interventions, exhibitions, resources, and training programs to:
Now more than ever, we need to be ready to understand and navigate the impacts of generative technologies. Through immersive activations, toolkits, guides, and training programs, we empower individuals, communities, and organizations to understand and respond to the landscape of challenges and opportunities created by AI and AI-powered tools, while fostering critical reflection.
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We want to empower young people to shape the digital world they want to live in. To do so, we design creative, playful, youth-focused initiatives, captivating educational interventions, resources, toolkits, and workshop curricula co-created with youth and educators, with which we foster spaces for conversations about how technology impacts our lives—from the individual to the societal and planetary levels.
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A gender-focused approach to exploring and addressing the socio-political and environmental impacts of technology on society is crucial. We implement diverse initiatives, activations, toolkits, and training aimed at empowering and building the capacity of individuals—especially women, women-identified, trans*, and gender non-conforming individuals—and their communities to navigate and mitigate the effects of digital technologies.
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The spread of misinformation impacts society's opinions, decisions, and civic participation while amplifying polarization and societal tensions. Through creative activations, resources, toolkits, guides, and training programs, we build the capacity of individuals, communities, and organizations to understand how misinformation spreads and how they can take action to tackle its spread.
Understanding how digital technologies influence elections is crucial to healthy democracies. Through research, tools, case studies, masterclasses, and training programs, we build the capacity of professionals, decision-makers, and citizens to understand the rising trend of private companies offering services to political entities to utilize personal data to influence voters' opinions and election outcomes.
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Digital technologies impact the environment, but also shape the way society understands and responds to the climate crisis. Increasingly, actors work with data-driven technologies to set narratives that sometimes spread confusion. We advance knowledge and build the capacity of professionals and decision-makers to understand and respond to this influence in the industry through training, residencies, masterclasses, and toolkits.
Fostering digital fluency and critical thinking is more crucial now than ever. To do so, we develop creative, engaging, and evidence-based interventions, resources, and tools such as exhibitions, kits, guides, and training programs, that confront conventional narratives and provoke critical thinking about the impacts of technology. Our interventions and resources spark conversations and drive transformative action.
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Fostering a trustworthy, evidence-based information ecosystem is key. Through co-developed resources, digital residencies, and training programs on investigative methods, we build the capacity of journalists, media actors, citizen investigators, and content creators to uncover hidden information, expose corruption, and promote truth. We facilitate collaboration while fostering digital and Open-Source Investigations (OSINT) globally.
Read moreShifting the conversation around the impacts of digital technologies
Examining just a few of the threads in recent technological developments reveals a tapestry of interwoven troubles. Tools like artificial intelligence systematize pre-existing struggles in society and on the planet. In this multi-part series, you’ll find out what’s really beneath the shiny surface of technology.
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Exploring how technology can be used as both a gateway and a barrier to accessing information
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Tactical Tech’s 'Exposing the Invisible' project invites you to join a workshop on how to gather evidence and trace supply chains in the fashion and technology sectors with the help of methods and open data sets provided by the Berlin-based NGO Wikirate. We will learn and explore how combining diverse datasets - such as supplier lists, facility data, and corporate disclosures - can uncover key insights and highlight information gaps. Through practical examples and group discussion, attendees will consider how open data can support accountability and inform their own research, public-interest...
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In the Loop, Tactical Tech’s monthly newsletter, includes new releases, open calls, job opportunities, information about our partners, events, recommended resources and more.
Read morePieces written to help people and organisations understand what it means to work in a tech and data-saturated environment.
Examining just a few of the threads in recent technological developments reveals a tapestry of interwoven troubles. Tools like artificial intelligence systematize pre-existing struggles in society and on the planet. In this multi-part series, you’ll find out what’s really beneath the shiny surface of technology.
Read moreExploring how technology can be used as both a gateway and a barrier to accessing information
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AI enhances efficiency and decision-making but also exacerbates social inequalities, reinforces biases, and threatens democracy. In our latest article, Executive Director Marek Tuszynski explores the urgent need to question who controls AI and why we need regulations that ensure transparency, accountability, and fairness while prioritizing human rights and sustainable resource use.
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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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