ANNUAL REPORT 2020
Making sense of the digital

The Glass Room wins CreativeReview‘s The Annual 2020 award(Installations & Exhibitions)

JAN

FEB

Data Detox Kit recognized byTech Spotlight at Harvard
Kennedy School’s BelferCenterMAR

Team begins working
from home due to
COVID-19

Data Detox x
Youth workbook

Exposing the Invisible ‘Investigationis Collaboration’ Online Camp begins

APR‘Technology is Stupid:
How to Choose Techfor Remote Working’published

MAY

Digital Enquirer‘s Kit proposal
wins German Ministry ofEconomic Cooperation andDevelopment‘s hackathon

Data & Activism project
launches The Organiser’s
Activity BookJUN

JUL

Publication of study‘Smartphone as Lifeline:
Designing Technology fora Changing World’

The Glass Room:
Misinformation Edition

AUG

Virtual Data & Politics
Round-table on
sub-Saharan Africa

Data & Politics animation
Your Data, Our Democracy

SEP

OCT

Release of ‘The Social Dilemma’documentary, recommending Data
Detox Kit		

First downloadable
Data Detox Kit workshop

NOVFirst Exposing the Invisible
Investigative Institute		DECADAPTING TO 2020

INTERNAL

Our organisational response to the COVID-19 pandemic,
including our commitment to free and open-source tools

10Staff temporarily worked remotely from

Tactical Tech’s response to the pandemicArticles, resources and events in responseto the key challenges of 2020

SUPPORTING CIVIL SOCIETY TO MOVE ONLINE

countries... focused on making sure our team could keep working, connectingwith and supporting each other, with flexible solutions for parents
and families. Our remote working policy changed so staff could
spend time with loved ones across the globe, in line with travel andquarantine restrictions. Everything from end-of-year parties to coffee breaks to birthdays to retirement parties moved online during
2020!

across410+

EXTERNAL

4

https://tinyurl.com/9et2trak

https://tinyurl.com/u99e6m6z

https://tinyurl.com/syajjnpw

https://tinyurl.com/58em9je3

https://tinyurl.com/kdfkjwmw

TACKLING MISINFORMATION

continents
hours of regularmeetings moved online

https://tinyurl.com/229j3j6s

RESPONDING TO TECHNOLOGY & CRISIS

email
https://www.thunderbird.net

March

2020

13 th

Tactical Tech switches to remote working;all projects begin adapting their content

cloud hosting
project management
https://about.gitlab.com

RemoteWorkingPlatforms

https://nextcloud.com

instant messaging

video conferencing

https://element.io

https://bigbluebutton.org

https://tinyurl.com/nb6a6ar2

https://tinyurl.com/2bxvs974

https://tinyurl.com/en37mwk4

THE GLASS ROOM

A public education intervention designed to stimulate criticalthinking on how technology changes the way we live

https://tinyurl.com/y9qzwc9j

MIS-/ DISINFORMATION
6. Doublecheck7. Fake or Real
8. A Drop In The OCEANTECH DEPENDENCY

1. Hooked 2. Are You Hooked?
4.How Your Phone Is Designed To Grab Your Attention

43

12

DEEPFAKES

3. Deep Future
5. Deepfake LabThe Creative Review
Annual 2020: Winner(Installations & Exhibitions)

5140

Glass Roomevents in29 Countries

12 Languages
DanishDutch
EnglishFrenchGermanItalianLithuanianRussianSlovenian
SpanishSwedishUkrainian

678

FEATURED PARTNERSHIP
Save the Children Italia
Save the Children (STC) Italia works to improve the lives of children across Italy through interventions
on topics ranging from child poverty to education. They adapted youth-related materials for The Glass
Room: Misinformation Edition, organised regular sessions in dozens of locations around Italy to informand engage educators and young people about misinformation, and promoted critical thinking to help
them interact with data-driven technology.

DATA DETOX KIT

SpanishA practical hands-on guide enabling users to makeinformed decisions and access tips and tools about
digital security, privacy, wellbeing and misinformation

GermanFrench
Basquehttps://tinyurl.com/y9lzdp25

NEW THEME

security

privacy

youth& family

wellbeing

NEW THEMEEU Media
Literacy

Shanmisinformation

Schoolfor Shan State
Nationalities
Youth

Russian
SecDev
Foundation

HIDE AND SEEK ON
YOUR FEEDHEALTH VS. HOAX

How algorithms influence yourinformation

Immunize yourself against
health misinformation online

A FISTFUL OFPRIVACY TIPS
How technology shapes youractivism

RESPONDINGTO KEYISSUES
OF 2020Urdu

Managing the screen time
dilemmaSinhalaPraja.LK(30 in total)

MediaMatters

Dutch

FERS

20 New
Languages
Libraries

Aarhus
Library

Lithuanian
Librarians
AssociationEngaged
Supporters

DanishLithuanian

Koper
Library

Slovenian

6 TIPS TO STEER CLEAR
OF MISINFORMATIONONLINE

PolishHebrew

FEATURED PARTNERSHIP
Goethe-Institut Cairo

BEYOND SCREENSIKMAGreekJapaneseSwedishArabicThe Goethe-Institut in Cairo is one of over 150 institutes worldwide thatpromote German language and culture as well as inter-cultural exchange.
The Egyptian institute translated more than 20 Data Detox Kit articles intoArabic, sharing our resources widely across the Arabic-speaking world topromote digital privacy, security and wellbeing and equip people with theskills to make proactive changes over their interactions with technology.

Croatian

Finnish“Recognized by the Tech Spotlight atHarvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Centeras a model of technology that seeks an
inclusive, fair, and safer future.”

DATA & POLITICSYour Data, Our Democracy

A research project investigating how personal data is used in political campaigns worldwide, andinforming policymakers and civil society about its impact on the democratic processThis animation highlights how our personal data is being used
for political purposes and what this means for our democracies

https://tinyurl.com/ycddmv4u

CAMBODIAUGANDABRAZILThe Khmer translation of ourguidebook was launched byOpen Development Cambodia
with a workshop in Phnom Penh

In anticipation of the 2021
election, CIPESA researchedand analysed digital politicaladvertising in Uganda as one ofour 2020 country studies

EITCHA! translated ourour guidebook Personal Data:
Personal Persuasion into Brazilian
Portuguese and supportedwith outreach

MEXICO
Our guidebook Personal Data:
Personal Persuasion was translated into Spanish by the free-techfeminist co-op Kéfir, Ecosistemas
Digitales Libres

FEATURED PARTNERSHIPEGYPTNETHERLANDS

We partnered with Mada Masr tooutreach the ‘Personal Data: Political Persuasion’ guidebook andtranslate it into Arabic to increase
its reach and accessibility

New Country Studies

Guidebook/Voter’s Guide Translations

Country Studies

Virtual Round-table ParticipantsWith elections coming up in 2021, we
published a country study on ‘Digital
Literacy and Tactics in Dutch Politics’ andtranslated the animation ‘Your Data, Our
Democracy’ (see top right) into Dutch’Talks & Workshops

CDD-West Africa

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD)
in West Africa is an independent non-profit which
promotes sustainable democracy and development,
including election monitoring. CDD-West Africa researched and produced our country study of personal
data collection in elections in Nigeria, translated the‘Personal Data: Political Persuasion’ guidebook andreport into the Hausa language, and embedded its
content into training events to inform and equip 620
regional election observers in 2020.

EXPOSING THE INVISIBLE

A project that empowers citizens and communities
by providing digital investigation resources, methods
and tactics to tackle global problems‘Investigation is Collaboration’ Online Camp
‘Exposing the Invisible’ Investigative Institutehttps://tinyurl.com/yb8acj6r

WORKING WITH DATASETSFEATURED PARTNERSHIP(May-November)

OSINT(November-December)

SOCIAL MEDIA RESEARCH CURATINGRESEARCH

INVESTIGATIVEDATASTORYTELLINGINVESTIGATIONBASICS INVESTIGATING IN REMOTE AREAS

TRACINGPEOPLEONLINE

Cooperativa Sulá Batsú is a Costa Rica-based cooperative working in local
development, including social economy, art and culture, with strategic use of digitaltechnologies. Sulá Batsú has been a long-term partner, translating and adapting
Exposing the Invisible: The Kit; co-hosting trainings and public events to advanceeffective and responsible investigation techniques in their wider networks; andco-organising ETI‘s ‘Investigation is Collaboration’ Camp, which took place onlinein 2020.

MARGINALISEDCOMMUNITIESMAPPING ANDGEOLOCATION

DIS/MISINFORMATION BIO-INVESTIGATIONS COLLABORATION

Cooperativa Sulá Batsú

20

workshops, trainings& panel talks for:

(Open-SourceIntelligence)

DIGITAL
SAFETYENVIRONMENTAL CROSS-BORDERINVESTIGATIONS ‘ FOLLOW THE MONEY‘ METHODSINVESTIGATIONSVERIFICATION & FACT-CHECKING

human rights defenders,journalists, artists, activists,
technologists, citizen
investigators, researchers,
students

2019

SearchSmarterby Dorking

Away FromYour Screen,
Out in theField

Gathering
VisualEvidence

Supply Chainand Product
Investigations

Signs, Symbolsand Other
Visual Clues

You Are Alreadyan Investigator

Retrieving andArchiving
Informationfrom Websites

Interviews:
the Human
Elementof Your
Investigation

Evaluating
EvidenceandInformation
Sources

Extracting
Information
From Social Apps:
A case of exposed
financial data

ad.watch Investigating
Political
Advertisements
on Facebook

How to See
What’s Behinda Website

How toManage Your
Sources

Data
Acquisition
forBeginners

Exploring
Connections
Between Political
Parties and Personal
Data Brokers
in the UK

What’s ina Company?

Using Mapsto See
Beyondthe Obvious

Focus on translations, partnerships, training andcollaborative development of content for next phaseof Kit (information & evidence analysis)

OSINT – Diving
into an ‘Ocean’of Information

Bioinvestigationsin the Field

What Makes anInvestigation?

Safety First

2020

What You Investigate

Launch of thefirst 13 chaptersof The Kit

The Kit

How You Investigate

Introduction

Exposing the Invisible: The Kit – 22 Chapters

OnlineInvestigative
Institutes,investigative
trainingand curriculum
development,
additional Kit
chapters added2021

DATA & ACTIVISM

An applied research project which provides effective andethical personal data practices for organisers

https://tinyurl.com/5b4c6f25

YOUTH AND TECHNOLOGY

A project exploring how the next generation engages withthe digital environment they inhabit and will inherit, withresources for young people and families

https://tinyurl.com/3acd9cmr

THE ORGANISER’S ACTIVITY BOOK
Personal Data and Events

Event Application and Participant Data...to cut throughthe chaos

9 Languages
Basque, Brazilian
Portuguese, Dutch,
English, German,
Italian, Norwegian,
Shan, Spanish,...with your phone

How-To Guidefor Youth in Ghana(Child OnlineAfrica)

Travel and Our Data Baggage

Social Media Data and Publicising Your EventAdaptationsby Partners...with solidpasswords

Webinar(GenerationCode 2020)

Theatre Playfor Youth in theNetherlands(FERS)...because it‘srunning away

FEATURED PARTNERSHIPFEATURED PARTNERSHIPCasa Hacker

School for Shan State Nationalities YouthCasa Hacker is a non-profit hackerspace based in Brazil dedicated to putting local communities in control of theirdigital experiences. They adapted and translated our Organiser’s Activity Book into Portuguese, created a video ‘crashcourse’ on data protection with a leading law firm, and shared the Activity Book on a webpage viewed over 10,000 times.
They also launched a digital marketing campaign on social media networks, based on our Activity Book, and a
dedicated newsletter which reached influential Brazilian civil society organisations.

The School for Shan State Nationalities Youth (SSSNY) was founded by young people in Myanmar almost 20 years ago
to promote youth participation for social and political change. They translated our Data Detox x Youth, providing for thefirst time digital literacy resources for young people in the Shan language. They also facilitated workshops along theThai border, engaging and equipping young people, teachers and other members of the community, and created an
educational guide for teachers that can be rolled out across schools country-wide.

NATIONALITIESSocial media platforms

OUR ORGANISATION

staff

Twitter: @info_Activism

COMMUNICATIONS

17

Mastodon: @info_activism
Facebook: facebook.com/Tactical.Tech/
Vimeo: vimeo.com/tacticaltech
Medium: medium.com/@Info_Activism

https://tinyurl.com/8a3d6m22

https://tinyurl.com/avv9d73m

Most shared tweet:

https://tinyurl.com/4y7hdb7n

https://tinyurl.com/3c9hnjty

1.2 million+ Website Visitors
PRESS								150+ press mentions in 24 languages,including in:

ABC News, Frankfurter Rundschau,
The Guardian, NPR, Le Point,
The Telegraph, Wired UK

Control Your Smartphone Data
https://tinyurl.com/h5vwn43s

Contact Us@ ttc@tacticaltech.org

34,503 Impressions
Support Us‘In the Loop’ Newsletter
https://tinyurl.com/8d2se9s

https://tinyurl.com/7n4ehsth

malesenior management

female97 29in

FINANCES

Budget: 1,448,735 EUR

male

PARTNERSHIPSIn 2020, we worked with

Funders:

tacticaltech.org

female60% 40%nationalities
withinthe teampartners

41,324 views

57% 43%countries

Websites

Most read article:

GENDER BALANCE

aroundthe world