Tactical Technology Collective

A Tactical Tech mapping workshop held in India in 2009

The Tactical Technology Collective (est. 2003) is an international nongovernmental organization that trains rights advocates to deploy "information and communications technologies - social media tools, mobile phones, digital security and information design." It works with groups in "developing and transition countries" in particular.[1]

Activities

The Glass Room, a pop-up exhibition curated by Tactical Tech and presented by Mozilla in Manhattan in 2016
  • Summer Source Camp, open source workshop, held in Croatia (2003)[2]
  • Africa Source, open source workshop, held in Namibia (2004),[3] Uganda (2006)[4]
  • Asia Source, a series of three open source camps held in Bangalore, India (2005), in Sukabumi, Indonesia (2007) and in Silang in the Philippines (2009).
  • "10 Tactics for Turning Information into Action," a 50-minute film (2009) that shows "how social justice organizations in the Global South use everything from Google Earth to Facebook in their campaigns."[5][6][7]
  • NGO-in-a-Box[8]
  • The Glass Room[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Tactical Technology Collective. What We Do. Retrieved 2011-10-13
  2. ↑ Paul-Brian McInerney. "Technology Movements and the Politics of Free/Open Source Software." Science Technology Human Values March 2009 vol. 34 no. 2
  3. ↑ "African Free and Open Source Software Developers Meeting March 15th - 19th, 2004." Africa News, January 20, 2004
  4. ↑ "Africa Source II - Free and Open Source Software for Local Communities." Africa News, October 17, 2005
  5. ↑ Derek Blackadder. "Twitter & Toodledo." Our Times, Feb/March 2010.
  6. ↑ 10 Tactics. Retrieved 2011-10-13
  7. ↑ Mary C. Joyce, ed. Digital activism decoded: the new mechanics of change. NY: International Debate Education Assoc., 2010
  8. ↑ Tactical Tech. ngoinabox.org. Retrieved 2011-10-13
  9. ↑ Information communication technologies and human development: opportunities and challenges. Idea Group, 2007
  10. ↑ Ronald Deibert. Access denied: the practice and policy of global Internet filtering. MIT Press, 2008
  11. ↑ Rosenbaum, Steven (5 December 2016). Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenrosenbaum/2016/12/05/the-glass-room-a-real-world-black-mirror-episode/#470e422b5a79. Missing or empty |title= (help)


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