Mission

Tactical Tech works to advance the skills, tools and techniques of rights advocates, empowering them to utilise information and communications as a critical asset in helping marginalised communities understand and affect progressive social, environmental and political change.

Goals

Three core goals guide Tactical Tech's activities:
• Freedom of Expression and the Free Flow of Information
  Find effective ways for marginalised communities and rights advocates to create and disseminate information. Decrease the security and privacy vulnerabilities of these communities by finding practical solutions to these challenges.
• Participation
  Increase the participation of marginalised communities on issues that affect them. Explore the potential of technology to bring unmediated voices to the fore.
• Accountability
  Increase the accountability of institutions and corporations that directly impact the lives of marginalised communities. Provide advocates and communities with skills and tools to create independent information and to turn this information into effective action.

Read more about the rationale for this in the 'what's the issue?' section.

Background

Since its inception in 2003, the Tactical Technology Collective (Tactical Tech) has been dedicated to strengthening NGOs' technology use in developing and transition countries. Trying and testing a range of new methodologies -- such as the Source Camps and NGO-in-a-box – through these projects it has successfully established its reputation as a convener and mentor in the non-profit technology space.

As Tactical Tech moves into its second phase of work, it is building on this approach with a new strategy that has a tighter remit, one that focuses on the needs of rights-based advocates and marginalised communities.