A Glass Room exhibit

Our projects

Discover the Tactical Tech Studio and the Tactical Tech Institute for Digital Investigation projects designed to empower individuals and communities to navigate and mitigate the impacts of digital technologies. Explore our projects to find out which ones align with your goals and needs.
To enable individuals and communities to navigate how digital technologies change their lives and transform societies, we operate the Tactical Tech Studio, which develops creative, educational digital literacy interventions, and the Tactical Tech Institute for Digital Investigation, which focuses on advancing knowledge and skills within civil society.

Tactical Tech Studio Projects

At our non-profit studio, we develop creative, educational interventions that promote critical thinking about technology and its socio-political impact. We scale these interventions by partnering with local organisations that use and adapt them to engage their communities.
  • Glass Room exhibit
    • STUDIO

    The Glass Room: experiences that invite people to examine their digital lives

    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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  • Young people interacting the What The Future Wants cards
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    What The Future Wants: Educational resources to empower young people

    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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  • people interacting wuth the data detox kit resources
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    Data Detox Kit: Practical steps and tool to improve your online life

    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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  • user exploring the Digital Enquirer Kit website
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    Digital Enquirer Kit: An E-learning platform to navigate the internet safely

    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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Tactical Tech Institute for Digital Investigation Projects

Our Institute for Digital Investigation advances understanding and skills within civil society through investigation, resource development, and skill-sharing. We build networks and foster critical skills among NGOs, journalists, and researchers, addressing the interplay between technology, power, and crises.
  • User exploring The Influence Industry Project website
    • INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL INVESTIGATION

    The Influence Industry Project: Understanding the industry behind our opinions

    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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  • People using the Exposing The Invisible kit
    • INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL INVESTIGATION

    Exposing The Invisible: Advancing the investigative community's capacity

    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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Featured stand-alone projects

  • Illustration of human shapes and abstract backgrounds

    Technologies of Hope & Fear

    Quarantine bracelets, pandemic drones, predictive cleaning, bio-patches and syndromic surveillance: the pandemic has shown how much faith we put in data, digital tools and the intelligence the companies who produce them claim will solve our problems.

    Technologies of Hope and Fear is a curated collection of 100 data-driven, machine learning, and AI enabled technologies around the world: developed, marketed and implemented to mitigate the pandemic and to help societies ‘get back to normal’.

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  • Picture of the Opinionator piece at Futurium, Berlin. Picture by
communications Tactical Tech.

    The Opinionator

    The Opinionator is an exhibition piece included in the exhibition "Democracy in Progress" organised by Futurium, Berlin. This interactive experience turns you into opinion leaders. Visitors get to know three common tools that are used to influence people in the digital space. Many users aren’t even aware of this influence. Knowing about it will help visitors recognise manipulations and form an independent opinion.

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  • Picture of the Opinionator piece at Futurium, Berlin. Picture by
communications Tactical Tech.
    • Studio

    GAFAM Empire

    GAFAM Empire is a project developed in collaboration with DensityDesign Lab that looks at the known acquisitions conducted by five big tech companies: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft, which sectors they expanded to, what types of know-how they absorbed, and in fact who they actually are besides who we think they are.

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A selection of past projects

  • Data and Activism

    Data and Activism is a research project that investigates the impact of data collection on activists, journalists, human rights defenders and civil society organisations, exploring the potential impact and offering protection strategies and creative responses.

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  • the Personal Data: Political persuasion guidebook

    Data and Politics

    Data and Politics is an ongoing research project that explores how political campaigns around the world are making use of personal data and what impact these methods have on the integrity of democratic processes.

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  • Data and You

    Data and You is a research project that investigates how data is collected on citizens to further entrench inequities such as marginalisation and discrimination.

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  • Me and My Shadow

    A project that helps you control your data traces, see how you're being tracked, and learn more about the data industry.

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  • XYZ

    XYZ is an online platform for practical tools to navigate digital security and privacy from a gender perspective, learn from each other's activism, inspire one another and co-create.

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