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What we do

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:

Promote Critical thinkingWe foster critical conversations about technologies' impacts on society and the environment.
Build the capacity of individuals and communitiesWe advance civil society skills and create spaces for exchange and collaboration.
Foster understanding and knowledgeWe conduct research and advance knowledge on the intersection of technology, power and crises.

Areas of Work

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    AI & Us

    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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    Youth & Tech

    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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    Women, Gender & Tech

    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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    Misinformation & Information Integrity

    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.

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    Digital Influence & Democracy

    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 Influence & Climate

    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.

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    Media Literacy & Data Detox for all

    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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    Tech, Media & Digital Investigations

    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.

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Technology & Society Insights

Pieces written to help people and organisations understand what it means to work in a tech and data-saturated environment.

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    Hello AI

    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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    The Persistent Problems Of Digital Resilience

    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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    The quest to understand influencing machines

    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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    The Tech Ouroboros: About the digitised culture of consumption

    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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Our reach since 2003

500+partnershave collaborated with us to develop and adapt our resources to their communities’ needs.
90+countriesin which our partners and us have promoted digital and media literacy among their communities.
30+million peoplehave been reached through our collaborative work with partners worldwide.
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Our Funders

  • Co-Funded by the European Union logo
  • Deutsche Postcode Lotterie logo
  • Logo  European Media and Information Fund
  • Schoepflin Stiftung Logo
  • Sida – the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
  •  Swedish Postcode Lottery Foundation logo
Supported by:
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  • Proton logo

Our past Funders and Supporters

  • Adessium Foundation logo
  • Logo Allianz Foundation
  • American Jewish World Service (AJWS) logo
  • Ashoka logo
  •  FRIDA The Young Femi- nist Fund logo
  • Ford Foundation logo
  • GIZ logo
  • Goethe Institut Logo
  • HIVOS Logo
  • Indigo Trust
  • International Development Research Centre: IDRC logo
  • Internews logo
  • Kulturstiftung des Bundes logo
  • Luminate logo
  • Mama Cash logo
  • Mozilla logo
  • Logo OAK Foundation
  • Omidyar Network logo
  • Open Society Foundations logo
  • PayPal Logo
  • Sigrid Rausing Trust logo
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