Skills
Trainings and workshops to equip your team or audiences with essential
skills and insightsOur training unit creates workshops and toolkits to equip organizations or audiences with essential digital literacy skills, supporting them in navigating the challenges digital technologies create. We offer digital literacy skill-building training and professional development interventions.
- Our digital literacy skill-building training includes both direct-to-audience and training-of-trainers, developing the skills of educators, librarians and NGOs covering a wide range of topics such as AI, digital well-being, privacy and security and combating misinformation.
- Our professional development interventions are designed for journalists, researchers and decision-makers, advancing their capacity on specialised topics such as digital investigation methods and researching emerging topics such as digital political influencing.
Our training programs are flexible and customizable. You can select and combine different workshops to create a tailored package with interconnected sessions that best suit your needs. Our comprehensive training options can be adapted to meet your specific objectives and expectations.
If you are interested in discussing a partnership or project, please get in touch with our partnerships and development team:
partnership@tacticaltech.orgThese essential workshop packages include sessions designed to inspire, inform, and engage through a combination of interactive and hands-on activities that foster meaningful discussions and actions. You can choose one of the essential packages or customize your program by selecting the topics and number of sessions that best suit your needs. Please note that we do not offer single, one-off sessions.
Workshop Package 1: Artificial Intelligence: Understanding AI and its impacts
This workshop package introduces the fundamentals of AI, exploring what it is, how it works, and its impacts on people and the planet. Participants will gain critical skills and actionable strategies to address the challenges AI presents. Ideal for audiences of all ages and knowledge levels. Sessions included in the package:
- Demystify AI: what it is, how it works and its impacts on people and the planet
- Living with Algorithms: what algorithms are and their relation to AI and machine learning
- AI challenges and actionable strategies 1: Magn(ai)fying Bias
- AI challenges and actionable strategies 2: Online Harassment
Workshop Package 2: Data Detox: Reflecting on your device and its apps’
design
This workshop package will enhance participants' relationship with technology and promote more balanced digital habits for individuals and communities. Covering topics such as how phones are designed to capture attention yet can be addictive, screen time, and practical tips to declutter your device. Ideal for audiences of all ages and knowledge levels. Sessions included in the package:
- Your Data Detox Starts Here: Understand data collection and privacy.
- Demystifying Your Data: Explore various types of data commonly collected and shared online.
- How to Declutter Your Phone
- Smart Phones, Smart Habits: Understand design patterns and persuasive practices embedded in technologies.
Workshop Package 3: Misinformation: Facts vs. feelings of media information
This workshop package equips participants with the resilience to navigate the complex landscape of misinformation and disinformation through engaging sessions on the information and media ecosystems, influential design patterns and persuasive practices embedded in technology. Ideal for audiences of all ages and knowledge levels. Sessions included in the package:
- Your Data Detox Starts Here: Who is collecting your data?
- Demystifying Your Data: Explore various types of data commonly collected and shared online.
- Facts vs. Feelings: Keep Calm and Spot the Design Tricks: Understand persuasive design tricks to provoke emotions and influence behavior.
- Facts vs. Feelings: Information... It's Complicated: Define ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation,’ explore the complexity of information, and practice fundamental investigation skills.
Workshop Package 4: Investigation essentials and digital safety
This workshop package covers the fundamental elements and initial steps of conducting digital investigations and comprises also risk awareness, risk assessment, and best safety practices, equipping participants with essential knowledge and practical tools for successful research and investigations. Ideal for early to mid-career journalists, investigators, media professionals, NGO researchers, activists, students. Sessions included in the package:
- What makes an investigation? Core elements of evidence-based online and offline research
- Investigation paths: effective starting points for investigations
- Safety First! Basics of Preventive Digital Safety
- How The Internet Works: Understand the structure of the Internet and how information travels
Workshop Package 5: Investigation methods
This workshop package covers more advanced investigative methods such as metadata exploration, cross-border databases, online searching web archives, and evidence evaluation, equipping your audiences with the tools and skills necessary to excel in their research endeavors. Ideal mid-career to advanced-career journalists, investigators, media professionals, NGO researchers, activists, and students. Sessions included in the package:
- Advanced Online Search and ‘Dorking
- Web Archiving and Retrieving Archived Evidence Online
- Metadata Explorations: Finding the Evidence Behind the Visible
- Navigating Cross-border Databases of Companies and People of Interest
- Evaluating Evidence and Information Sources
Workshop Package 6: Digital Influence in elections:
This workshop package helps participants understand the interconnections between data-driven technologies and election campaigns, including the tools and methodologies used by political groups. It provides essential techniques and skills needed to investigate the use of data-driven strategies in the electoral context. Ideal for all experience-level journalists, media professionals, investigators, NGO researchers, activists, political analysts, election monitors and students. Sessions included in the package:
- Introduction to Personal Data and the Influence Industry
- Data as a Political Asset, Political Intelligence and Political Influence
- Research methods and tools for investigating digital influences in election campaigns
- Presenting Your Findings: Best practices for making your research impactful and accessible
Distribute our educational kits
Are you interested in getting printed versions of our most popular toolkits? These resources are the result of our extensive research and collaboration with experts and practitioners in the field. Let us know how many copies you need, and we'll send you a personalized proposal! Currently available kits:
Data Detox Kit
This playfully designed, pocket-sized booklet features four essential guides with actionable tips to improve digital privacy, security, wellbeing, and combat misinformation. The perfect takeaway for any event, conference, or activation, it can be customized with your logo and printed for easy distribution. A must-have tool to empower your community, available in Arabic, Belarusian, Czech, English, Greek, Indonesian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese.
Exposing the Invisible- The Kit
This visually captivating, pocket-sized booklet features essential investigative methods and open-source tools, making techniques used by experienced investigators accessible to everyone who is motivated. The perfect takeaway for any event, conference, or activation, this booklet is ideal for journalists, investigators, academics, or students and can be easily shipped for distribution. It is a must-have tool to empower your audience.
