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Who We Are

Tactical Tech is a team of 17 people spread out in 6 countries. We are guided by our Advisory Board Members and supported by a variety of funders, which are mainly private foundations. See details below.

EXECUTIVE, FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

Stephanie Hankey - Co-founder and Executive Director. Stephanie has been working to strengthen the use of technology by civil society in the global South for the last decade, initially working with the Open Society Institute establishing their Technology Support for Civil Society Program and for the past six years with Tactical Tech. Stephanie has a background in information design, worked as a creative director and producer for a number of London-based multimedia companies, and was editor-in-chief of Pulp, a bi-weekly youth magazine. She has a Masters in Information/Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art (London) and a certificate in campaigning and lobbying.

Marek Tuszynski - Co-founder and Director of Programs and Technology. Marek was previously engaged with the arts and independent culture - writing, curating exhibitions and organising festivals, mostly in the 'post-soviet' territories. In the mid-nineties he co-founded the International Network of Contemporary Art Centres and worked with others to create a television programme about independent culture in Poland.

In parallel Marek was director of the Stefan Batory Foundation’s Internet programme (Warsaw). He sat on the board of Klon/Jawor (a research and infrastructure NGO)and The Second Hand Bank (a distributor of refurbished electronic equipment).Marek worked as a consultant to many funding agencies focusing on information and communication strategies for civil society in Central Asia.

Jan Griffiths - Financial Co-ordinator. Jan's role is to keep the financial wheels of the organisation well-oiled. She brings a wealth of experience in finance and administration, having co-founded and managed a number of small, successful businesses in the corporate sector. She has a BA (Hons) in Business Administration and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Management. Introduced to the world of activism through her two grown-up children, she is glad to be able to put her years of experience to good use in an altruistic environment.

Lucinda Linehan - Operations Manager. Prior to joining Tactical Tech, Lucinda built a freelance career helping to produce large scale events together with co-managing an international dance company. She is proud to be able to contribute to a creative and stimulating organisation which facilitates marginalised communities to become adept at using technology.

Mary Martin - Admin & Finance Assistant. Mary is a social development worker who has been involved with work in east and west Africa since the early 1980's, first as a researcher and then as a programme manager/adviser with various NGOs, based either in Africa or London. She recently decided to work closer to her home in West Sussex and has taken up an short-term contract with TTC to provide part-time support to the Director of Operations and the Financial Co-ordinator. She is looking forward to getting to know TTC and its programme work and contributing where she can.

Poornima Ramakrishna - Operations Manager, Bangalore. Poornima is currently helping Tactical Tech with registering the Bangalore office. She is an operations expert with over 10 years of experience in finance, administration, logistics, HR, project management, legal and company affairs within non-profit organisations. She was, for almost a decade, a valuable member of the core Mahiti team.

She has a Masters in Sociology and is presently working towards an MBA and a certification as Company Secretary.

PROJECTS

Becky Faith - Projects Lead. Becky leads Tactical Tech's Mobiles projects. She is an experienced producer and technologist who has worked in new media production since 1995. She also has experience in community video production. Becky worked for Fahamu, creating online human rights training materials for NGOs and the United Nations. She was web manager for Pambazuka News: an award winning multimedia site covering social justice in Africa. She has developed knowledge sharing and information sites with southern African health organisations.

She is passionate about the potential of mobile phones in advocacy and campaigning. She has implemented projects using mobile technologies for campaigning in Africa, including the Global Call to Action against Poverty.

Currently, she is on maternity leave.

Tanya Notley - Skills Building Project Leader. Tanya is providing skills building support to a number of Tactical Technology’s mobile and advocacy projects. She has more than 10 years of experience working with research institutes, international development agencies and community-based organisations in Australia, the UK, Nepal, India and Sri Lanka. Tanya has produced training manuals for radio production, digital storytelling and participatory research methods and has delivered many workshops in these areas.

In 2008 Tanya completed her PhD with the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation (ici) at Queensland University of Technology. Her PhD thesis examines the different ways young people in Australia are using online networks to participate in society.

Chris Walker - Project Lead. Chris is involved with the security edition of NGO-in-a-box. He works with international non-governmental organizations on issues related to human rights and information & communication technology (ICT). In this capacity, he has contributed technical advice, implemented software and systems prototypes, and provided substantial management assistance for large-scale, security-related ICT projects targeting politically oppressive countries. His emphasis, recently, has been on censorship-circumvention and anonymity software, GSM-based voice and SMS services, and information security.

Chris has a Master's degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, where he studied practical, theoretical and technical coursework relevant to the interplay between ICT and human rights in the developing world and in closed societies.

Dirk Slater - Project Lead. Dirk leads Tech's Movement Building programme area. Prior to this, he was Senior Circuit Rider for the Low-Income Networking and Communications (LINC) Project of the Welfare Law Centre, helping advocacy and activist groups across the United States increase their capacity through the use of technology. Dirk serves on the board for the Progressive Technology Project.

Besides working in the economic justice area, Dirk also has experience working on environmental justice, voter rights and queer issues.

Genner Llanes-Ortiz - Part-time intern. Genner provides support to different projects within Tactical Tech. He is a Mayan anthropologist and has worked as a collaborative researcher for several individual NGOs and NGO networks in the Peninsula of Yucatan in Mexico. His experience revolves around sustainable development projects, intercultural education initiatives, and cultural and human rights activism for the Maya and other Indigenous groups in Mexico and Latin America. He holds an MA in Anthropology of Development and is expected to obtain his DPhil in Social Anthropology, both from the University of Sussex in Brighton.

Sophia Kamaruddin - Project Coordinator. Sophia provides support to the movement building and skills building projects. She recently completed her MA in Development Economics at the University of Sussex. She has been actively involved in New Delhi with issues of gender and sexuality, and has campaigning and advocacy experience.

TECH, PRODUCTION AND SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

Allan Stanley - Head of Production. Allan is information designer and production guru. He was also a long-standing member of the Bangalore-based technology NGO, Mahiti (http://www.mahiti.org). At Mahiti, he headed up the design function, specialising in information architecture and the usability of web-based and multimedia applications. Over the last 10 years he has managed numerous technology projects for NGOs, and conceptualised projects such as a series of digital pedagogic games and tools to teach soft skills and literacy to young adults in rural India.

Allan was an organiser for AsiaSource and AfricaSource 2 and led the local production team for the World Information City exhibition (India).

Bobby Soriano - Project Lead. Bobby is working on the further development of the NGO-In-A-Box and toolkits. He was also involved in other training and source camp activities of Tactical Tech. Bobby has fifteen solid years of systems and network administration experience, developing NGO-tools and implementing projects, He has also spent five years as an information and communications technology trainer.

Bobby has worked for non-profit agencies in the Philippines for the past 20 years focusing on utilising technology to support advocacy. This includes the Institute for Popular Democracy, Management and Organizational Development for Empowerment, the Philippines Peasant Insitute and The Ford Foundation.

David Timothy - Production Coordinator. has worked for over 10 years with various NGOs in India, worked in the area of conflict resolution and has always been involved with the print media in every organisation he has worked with. He was part of the marketing, design and production team of the largest Children's book publishing house in India, that worked at reaching the printed media to the remotest parts of the country and inculcate in the Indian Children the habit and love of reading, before he came on to be part of TTC.

Currently works with the production team of Tactical Tech in Bangalore.

Evelyn Namara - System Administrator. Evelyn is the System Administrator of Online services maintained by Tactical Technology Collective. She was previously working with Linux Solutions as the Solutions Engineer and dealt with tasks such as Systems administration, building and maintaining UNIX based servers for the company's clients, and carrying out troubleshooting services when systems went down.

Alongside building and maintaining of UNIX based servers, she also dealt with setting up of networks, LANs, WANs, VPN solutions among others. Evelyn was part of Africa Source 2 that was held in Kampala Uganda in 2006 as a participant and volunteer and was also involved in the network setup at the Source camp.

Lynne Stuart - Graphic Designer.Lynne is ensuring that TTC's products and websites look enticing. She has considerable experience of design and editorial consultancy for various publishing concerns, an MA in digital moving image and a collection of protégés who know her better as their photography lecturer.

FUNDERS

Tactical Tech is funded by a variety of private foundations. These include:

In the past, we have also received funding from Inwent (http://www.inwent.org), UNDP-IOSN (http://www.iosn.net/) and Omidyar (http://www.omidyar.net). Tactical Tech also raises money for its initiatives through sub-contracted grants from partnerships, most significantly working with Internews Europe (http://www.internews.fr).

We receive a limited amount of private donations and fees for products and services.