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different Tactical Tech projects.

20 years building communities’ capacity to tackle the challenges created by technology

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What we do

While technologies are often seen as sources of solutions, they can also amplify social, political, and environmental crises. We empower individuals and communities to navigate these challenges and the impacts of digital technologies. Collaborating with an international network, we co-create public interventions, exhibitions, resources, and training programs to:

Promote Critical thinkingWe foster critical conversations about technologies' impacts on society and the environment.
Build the capacity of individuals and communitiesWe advance civil society skills and create spaces for exchange and collaboration.
Foster understanding and knowledgeWe conduct research and advance knowledge on the intersection of technology, power and crises.

How we do it

We operate through the Tactical Tech Studio focused on Digital Literacy, and the Tactical Tech Institute for Digital Investigation.
  • The Glass Room: Misinformation Edition, Khoj Studios, New Delhi,
2023. Image courtesy of Khoj International Artists' Association.

    Tactical Tech Studio: Creative educational interventions for communities and decision-makers

    At our non-profit studio, we develop creative digital literacy interventions and resources to foster critical thinking about technology and its socio-political impact. Our proven scaling methodology enables organizations to engage their audiences on national, regional, and local levels. With two decades of experience, our resources have been utilized by over 300 partners in 90 countries, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and adaptable solutions.

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  • Person reading the Exposing the Invisible Kit

    Tactical Tech Institute for Digital Investigation: Advancing understanding, skills and capacity of civil society

    Our Institute for Digital Investigation is a center of excellence dedicated to advancing understanding and skills within civil society through investigation, resource development, and skill-sharing. We build networks and foster critical skills among NGOs, journalists, and researchers, addressing the interplay between technology, power, and crises. Our proven collaborative and participatory approaches enable organizations to produce new research, test investigative methodologies, and build individuals' and communities' capacity.

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Our projects

  • Glass Room exhibit
    • STUDIO

    The Glass Room: experiences that invite people to examine their digital lives

    This public intervention and interactive experience invites visitors to reflect on how technology impacts their lives and society. Available in multiple formats, from large-scale exhibitions to low-cost self-print formats, it is easily used and adapted. It features printed and digital poster exhibitions, animations, apps, workshop curricula, and other assets in around 30 languages.

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  • people interacting wuth the data detox kit resources
    • STUDIO

    Data Detox Kit: Practical steps and tool to improve your online life

    The Data Detox Kit, available in over 45 languages, offers tips, tools, and concrete steps to improve your online life, enabling informed choices and personalized digital habits. It includes over 30 guides, workshop outlines for educators, an alternative App Centre, and a resources page on digital privacy, security, environmental impact, wellbeing, and tackling misinformation.

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  • Young people interacting the What The Future Wants cards
    • STUDIO

    What The Future Wants: Educational resources to empower young people

    This youth initiative from Tactical Tech aims to empower young people to take control of their digital futures through education, co-creation, and capacity building. It features playful, youth-focused exhibitions, interactive activities, learning resources, and tools and methodologies for educators to engage young people in conversations about AI, technology, and their impacts.

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  • user exploring the Digital Enquirer Kit website
    • STUDIO

    Digital Enquirer Kit: An E-learning platform to navigate the internet safely

    This e-learning interactive course advances and disseminates knowledge on media literacy, verification, and safe Internet navigation. The course contains simple explanations and real-world examples illustrating secure research and information-gathering methods. The modules feature engaging and creative formats, such as tutorials, quizzes, and interactive games.

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  • People using the Exposing The Invisible kit
    • INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL INVESTIGATION

    Exposing The Invisible: Advancing the investigative community's capacity

    The project offers comprehensive resources, workshops, and institutes on investigative tools and methodologies for civil society actors such as media organizations, experts, researchers, academics, investigators, and journalists. It fosters spaces for collaboration and exchange to enhance the capacity of today’s global community of digital and OSINT investigators.

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  • User exploring The Influence Industry Project website
    • INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL INVESTIGATION

    The Influence Industry Project: Understanding the industry behind our opinions

    This project produces research, resources and masterclasses on digital influence, focusing on its impact on public opinion, particularly in politics. It examines the global industry companies that use digital technologies and personal data to shape opinions. The project offers an accessible database of industry actors, case studies, and research methodologies.

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Our latest news

Shifting the conversation around the impacts of digital technologies

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  • White background with the text In The Loop newsletter
    • In-The-Loop newsletters

    In The Loop September 2024

    In the Loop, Tactical Tech’s monthly newsletter, includes new releases, open calls, job opportunities, information about our partners, events, recommended resources and more.

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  • concrete with inscriptions on it
    • Technology & Society Insights

    The quest to understand influencing machines

    We need to rethink how we deal with information in the context of crises. All of us, really. We, the digital users of the digitised information world, need to get a grip on things. How we explore the world, what and who we trust, and why, in the context of crises, has gotten too far out of our hands and needs to change. We need a place to come together. We need to reinvent how we talk about and solve difficult things while respecting any fundamental differences we might come to the table or screen with.

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    • Open calls

    [Open Call for Partnerships] Organisations in Berlin Working with Youth

    We are looking to partner with formal or non-formal youth-focused organisations and institutions based in Berlin, especially those working with young people (ages 13-18 years old) from traditionally marginalized identities or backgrounds, on a digital literacy project called What the Future Wants (WTFW) - Comes to Berlin, co-funded by Deutsche Postcode Lotterie.

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Impact stories

Impact stories from our partners in the field.

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Technology & Society Insights

Pieces written to help people and organisations understand what it means to work in a tech and data-saturated environment.

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  • concrete with inscriptions on it
    • Technology & Society Insights

    The quest to understand influencing machines

    We need to rethink how we deal with information in the context of crises. All of us, really. We, the digital users of the digitised information world, need to get a grip on things. How we explore the world, what and who we trust, and why, in the context of crises, has gotten too far out of our hands and needs to change. We need a place to come together. We need to reinvent how we talk about and solve difficult things while respecting any fundamental differences we might come to the table or screen with.

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  • sunset from the train rails
    • Technology & Society Insights

    The Tech Ouroboros: About the digitised culture of consumption

    We are in the business of developing tools that allow us to eat our own tail, and AI is the new big mouth that we have just invented to help us with this self-consuming task incredibly effectively. In this spiral of self-consumption, everything tastes the same - it is impossible to verify sources and provenance and impossible to separate disgusting opinions from facts. It seems that fiction is much more popular than non-fiction in this reading club of self-consumers.

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  • Two people in front of each others taking a picture and with mirrors behind
    • Technology & Society Insights

    There Is Plastic In The Clouds

    Understanding the real scale and scope and consequences of the environmental crisis depends on how digital technology influences our thinking about it in terms of scale and depth and short and long term consequences, as well as what solutions we can imagine to create and deploy against all this chaos. Text by Marek Tuszynski

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Our reach since 2003

500+partnershave collaborated with us to develop and adapt our resources to their communities’ needs.
90+countriesin which our partners and us have promoted digital and media literacy among their communities.
30+million peoplehave been reached through our collaborative work with partners worldwide.
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Our Funders

  • Co-Funded by the European Union logo
  • Logo  European Media and Information Fund
  • Sida – the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
  •  Swedish Postcode Lottery Foundation logo
Supported by:
  • DuckDuckGo Logo
  • Proton logo

Our past Funders and Supporters

  • Adessium Foundation logo
  • Logo Allianz Foundation
  • American Jewish World Service (AJWS) logo
  • Ashoka logo
  •  FRIDA The Young Femi- nist Fund logo
  • Ford Foundation logo
  • GIZ logo
  • Goethe Institut Logo
  • HIVOS Logo
  • Indigo Trust
  • International Development Research Centre: IDRC logo
  • Internews logo
  • Kulturstiftung des Bundes logo
  • Luminate logo
  • Mama Cash logo
  • Mozilla logo
  • Logo OAK Foundation
  • Omidyar Network logo
  • Open Society Foundations logo
  • PayPal Logo
  • Sigrid Rausing Trust logo
  • USAID logo