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:
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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Our Institute 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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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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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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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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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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How do you respond in a crisis? Everything Will Be Fine is a public intervention and interactive experience that explores how people understand and respond to global crises like climate change and pandemics through the lens of technology. This hybrid intervention includes the work of more than 60 artists, technologists, researchers and investigators.
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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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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.
Read moreShifting the conversation around the impacts of digital technologies
From chatbots to deepfakes, AI-generated content is becoming increasingly common online. New AI tools make it easier, faster and cheaper to generate text, images, videos, and more. In turn, the harms that have always existed online – scams, harassment, polarisation and bias – are now being “supercharged” by AI.
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Wir sind auf der Suche nach Partnerschaften mit formellen oder informellen, in Berlin ansässigen Jugendorganisationen und -institutionen, vor allem solchen, die mit jungen Menschen (13-18 Jahre) aus traditionell marginalisierten Identitäten oder Hintergründen arbeiten.
Read moreAre you a social worker, community leader, youth advocate, or educator working with teens? Tactical Tech is seeking organisations and individuals in Berlin interested in getting trained on digital literacy topics such as AI, misinformation, and digital privacy, accessing educational resources, and receiving financial support to host workshops or exhibitions in their communities.
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Through a series of knowledge-exchange workshops conducted by our partner CITE in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 45 participants, including citizen journalists and civil society organisations, were equipped with skills in identifying information disorders, encryption methods, and secure communication channels.
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Our partners International Young Catholic Students (IYCS) Africa are a non-profit organisation that, since 1937, have been empowering students across African countries to work for solidarity, freedom, justice and peace in the world.
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Our partners Fundación Internet Bolivia.org work to raise public consciousness and stimulate discourse through learning platforms, both in the digital and the physical world, to enhance digital inclusion and data protection at the local level
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Our partners Development Three Sixty are a vibrant NGO on a mission to address issues of misinformation, digital safety disinformation and hate speech in Zambia.
Read morePieces written to help people and organisations understand what it means to work in a tech and data-saturated environment.
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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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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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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Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines educator scoping sessions, research, literature review and youth input sessions, Tactical Tech identified insights and recommendations about topics, formats and facilitation methodologies crucial to creating effective Digital and Media Literacy Educational resources.
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