Tactical Tech is a diverse team of people spread out over 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.

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.

PROJECTS

Tanya Notley - Project Lead. Tanya provides research and project management support to a number of Tactical Tech projects. She has more than 10 years 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 and book chapters on radio production, digital storytelling, media for social change 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.

Dirk Slater - Project Lead. Dirk Slater has worked with Tactical Tech since 2005. He has worked on nearly a dozen projects focusing on increasing the ability of advocates and activists in marginalised communities to use digital technologies, including advocates working on human rights in Russia, HIV/AIDS advocates in Central Asia, sex worker advocates in the Asia-Pacific and pro-democracy activists in South East Asia. Dirk has also contributed to several of Tactical Tech's toolkits and guides, including the “Quick n Easy Guide to Online Advocacy”. Prior to this he was Senior Circuit Rider for the Low-Income Networking and Communications (LINC) Project, helping build the capacity of advocacy and activist groups across the United States.

Bobby Soriano - Project Lead. 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. He is currently working on the further development of the NGO-In-A-Box and other toolkits. His particular specialities are in security issues and the use of mobile technologies for advocacy. His recent work for Tactical Tech includes digital security and privacy workshops, for Highway Africa, the Southern African Human Rights Defenders Trust and the Civil Initiative on Internet policy in Kyrgyzstan.  He helped establish the pioneering Overseas Filipino Workers SMS Distress System (OFW-SOS).

Maya Indira Ganesh - Project Coordinator. Maya works on a new project that explores how sex worker communities in India and Cambodia can use digital media technologies to document violations they face. Maya began her career inwomen's rights, violence prevention, sexuality and women's reproductive health. She has also worked with UNICEF developing training and learning materials on gender, adolescent health and HIV/AIDS prevention. Maya has taken the 'media turn' over the past four years and has married her experience working on gender and sexuality with research and writing on old and new media. She has a Masters degree in Psychology from Delhi University, India, and a Masters degree in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. She lives just outside Bombay, India.

Kate Morioka – Information Analysis and Visualisation Coordinator. Long job title aside, Kate's work is to turn complex data into compelling and easy-to-understand graphics. She draws on a diverse set of techniques, tools and processes from three major disciplines: social research, information science and applied geography (GIS). She has 6 years of experience working with NGOs, governments, multilateral institutions and consultancy firms in Australia and the South Pacific. She has worked on high-profile urban development projects, calling on governments and developers to maximise livelihood and lifestyle opportunities for affected communities. She was the lead researcher for the World Bank's study on youth participation in the South Pacific (2006) and she initiated the region's first UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit for Youth in Samoa (2005). She is the co-founder of Pacifika Youth, an online resource network established in 2003 to empower young people and their communities to take action on the MDGs. She enjoys being able to apply her wide variety of skills and interests to Tactical Tech's work.

Becky Faith – Development Officer. Becky has been working in campaigning and media advocacy environments for 20 years, working on issues including women's rights in Africa and grassroots anti-racist activism in East London. She worked on the Message in-a-box and Mobiles in-a-box toolkits, and has helped develop human rights training materials for the United Nations. Becky is on the board of the Sussex Community Internet Project and was also on the selection committee for the Young Foundation's first Social Innovation Camp. She is currently working on an ethnographic study of mobile phone use for a M Sc. in Technology Strategy Research. Tactical Tech, for her, is her ‘tribe of political techies who don’t just talk tech’.

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. 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).

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.

David currently works with the production team of Tactical Tech in Bangalore.

Lynne Stuart – Visual Communications. Lynne is a graphic designer and illustrator working on print, web and animation for TTC projects. She has considerable experience in design and editorial consultancy for various concerns ranging from international publishers to small poetry collectives. She has a masters in digital moving image from the London Metropolitan University and a collection of protégés from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology who know her better as their photography lecturer.

OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION

Lucinda Linehan - Operations and Production Manager. Prior to joining Tactical Tech, Lucinda built a freelance career producing large scale events together with co-managing an international dance company. While at Tactical Tech, she has managed the production of the Tactical Tech 2008 Annual Report and The Child Health Now! report on child mortality for Word Vision. She says she especially likes working for this creative and stimulating organisation as ''I am inspired the imagination and resourcefulness of activists and for the first time, I am proud to talk about my work."

Jan Griffiths - Financial Manager. 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. She takes great pride in “contributing to the good work that Tactical Tech is getting a reputation for.”

Mary Martin - Admin & Finance Assistant. Mary is a social development worker who has worked in east and west Africa since the 1980s, as a researcher and a programme manager/adviser with NGOs in Africa and London. Having decided to spend more time at home and less time working, her part-time role with Tactical Technology allows her to continue to support practical human rights work.

Poornima Ramakrishna - Operations Manager, Bangalore. Poornima 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 is now setting up and will be managing the e-commerce section of the Tactical Tech website. She has a Masters in Sociology and is presently working towards an MBA and a certification as Company Secretary.

FUNDERS

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

• Hivos (http://www.hivos.org)
• the Open Society Institute (http://www.soros.org)
• the Oak Foundation (http://www.oakfnd.org/)
• the Sigrid Rausing Trust (http://www.sigrid-rausing-trust.org/) and
• IDRC (http://www.idrc.ca).

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.