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.
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Tactical Tech is seeking a detail-oriented and reliable Accountant with a minimum of two years of relevant experience to join our team.
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Sensing Quantum ist ein kostenlos unterhaltsames, interaktives und sinnliches Workshop-Erlebnis, bei dem Technologie und Kunst zusammenkommen, um einen Raum für junge Menschen zum kritischen Hinterfragen und Reflektieren neuer Technologien und ihrer Auswirkungen zu schaffen.
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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.
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From December 2–4, 2024, Tactical Tech’s Influence Industry Project brought together 35 researchers, artists, journalists, community organizers, and communications professionals from 14 countries at Publix House of Journalism in Berlin for the inaugural Digital Influence and Climate Friction Gathering.
Read morePieces written to help people and organisations understand what it means to work in a tech and data-saturated environment.
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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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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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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