Tactical Tech's board is made up of experienced technologists and advocates actively working to increase the use of new technologies by rights advocates in the global South.

Brenda Burrell, is the co-founder and IT Director of Kubatana.net, Zimbabwe's civic and human rights information portal. She has a background in social justice activism and helped establish Zimbabwe's national lesbian and gay organisation in 1989. Brenda has 9 years experience working in the pro-democracy movement in Zimbabwe focusing on information communication technologies. She is a keen cyclist and has banished any pretensions of respectability by being a consumer of pulp crime fiction.

Cheekay Cinco is a female Filipino Feminist. Based in Manila, she currently works with the Association for Progressive Communications Women's Networking Support Programme, APC WNSP, performing multiple tasks, including: coordination of the APC WNSP in Asia Pacific, developing the Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) Practitioners Network, and conducting ICT training for women. She is also affiliated with a local women's group, WomensHub, that deals with women and technology issues. She has been working in the area of gender and information and communication technology since 1999.

Janet Haven is the Program Manager for the Civil Society Communications initiative at the Open Society Institute’s Information Program. The Information Program works to enhance the ability to access, exchange and produce information by civil society constituencies. Before coming to OSI, Janet worked with software development teams at Sun Microsystems and Vivendi Universal. She has lived in Central Europe since 1995, and received a Master of Arts at the Unversity of Virginia with a focus on the use of internet technologies in the humanities.

Ravi Agarwal is founder director of Toxics Link, an Indian environmental NGO working on areas of chemical safety, toxics and waste. Over the past 14 years, Ravi and his group have played a key role, as civil society actors, to help formulate polices and regulations including those relating to bio medical waste, municipal solid waste and hazardous waste, besides implementing several best practice models on the ground. Ravi is part of several standards and regulatory committees in the Government, and participates in UNEP, IFCS, WHO forums and International conventions, at various committees and panels.

He has been awarded the prestigious Ashoka fellowship, and writes regularly on environmental issues in the media and journals. He is also a well known and accomplished photo-artist, and has published two photo books.

Sam Gregory Sam Gregory is a human rights activist, advocacy trainer, and video producer, since 2000 he has been the Program Manager – Strategic Networks at WITNESS, the international human rights organization that supports the incorporation of video into advocacy campaigns. He has worked in collaboration with human rights groups in the Philippines, Guatemala, Argentina, Thailand/Burma, and the US, supporting international advocacy and outreach campaigns, and has led a range of international human rights training workshops.

Videos he has produced have been screened at the US Congress, the United Nations and at film festivals worldwide. In 2004 he was a jury member for the IDFA Amnesty International/Doen Award. He was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University, he has worked as a television researcher/producer in both the US and UK, and for development organizations in Nepal and Vietnam.