20 years building communities’ capacity to tackle the challenges created by technology

• STUDIO

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.

• INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL INVESTIGATION

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.

• INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL INVESTIGATION

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.

• In-The-Loop newsletters

In the Loop, Tactical Tech’s monthly newsletter, includes new releases, open calls, job opportunities, information about our partners, events, recommended resources and more.

• Open calls

We are seeking Europe-based schools, libraries, youth clubs, cultural centres or civil society organisations that work with youth to test and implement the second cycle of the Critical ChangeLab model in their contexts.

• Technology & Society Insights

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.

• Annual Reports

In 2023, Tactical Tech celebrated 20 years of innovative and collaborative work dedicated to building the capacity of communities around the world to face the challenges brought by new technologies. Over these two decades—together with our partners, collaborators, funders, and supporters—we reached over 30 million people in more than 90 countries, engaging them in conversations to increase their understanding and agency while navigating the digital landscape.

• Impact Stories

Through a series of knowledge-exchange workshops conducted by our partner CITE in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 45 participants, including citizen journalists and civil society organisations, were equipped with skills in identifying information disorders, encryption methods, and secure communication channels.

• Impact Stories

Our partners International Young Catholic Students (IYCS) Africa are a non-profit organisation that, since 1937, have been empowering students across African countries to work for solidarity, freedom, justice and peace in the world.

• Impact Stories

Our partners Fundación Internet Bolivia.org work to raise public consciousness and stimulate discourse through learning platforms, both in the digital and the physical world, to enhance digital inclusion and data protection at the local level

• Impact Stories

Our partners Development Three Sixty are a vibrant NGO on a mission to address issues of misinformation, digital safety disinformation and hate speech in Zambia.

• Technology & Society Insights

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.

• Technology & Society Insights

Understanding the real scale and scope and consequences of the environmental crisis depends on how digital technology influences our thinking about it in terms of scale and depth and short and long term consequences, as well as what solutions we can imagine to create and deploy against all this chaos. Text by Marek Tuszynski

• Technology & Society Insights

Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines educator scoping sessions, research, literature review and youth input sessions, Tactical Tech identified insights and recommendations about topics, formats and facilitation methodologies crucial to creating effective Digital and Media Literacy Educational resources.

• Technology & Society Insights

This commissioned research report includes the main findings and recommendations regarding the latest developments in the Digital and Media Literacy Education field.