(DIY) Cybersecurity for Activists

La Ingobernable - Filmoteca Popular

Friday 27th Oct. 10 - 14.30

Marta Mojica (Martu)

Marta Mojica (Martu)

Inés Bebea

Inés Bebea

This will be a workshop on privacy and digital security with a critical and holistic perspective. It is especially targeted to activists and people working in social groups, who want to improve their digital practices and rethink about these issues. We will map and analyze our digital routines, identify risks and seek together discourses, strategies and tools with which to facing vulnerabilities already everyday. The methodology of the workshop is eminently practical and will be developed through collective action-reflection dynamics, games and theatrical techniques, without making direct use of technologies or software. Prior technical knowledge is not necessary. The workshop intends to pay special attention to mutual care and to promote an experience of integral self-awareness around the security and risks of activism and social action in networks.

Program:
1. Introduction and validation of concepts: digital self-defense, digital disobedience, cybersecurity, holistic security.
2. Case study and identification of vulnerabilities.
3. Collective construction of strategies and tools.
4. Deepening and practice of concrete tools.

Confirmed facilitators Martu (Marta Mojica) and Inés Bebea.

Martu is a feminist activist and ICT technician graduated in Social Work. She has facilitated workshops on privacy and digital security (https://untallerdeseguridad.noblogs.org/) and is part of the Hacklab Feminista in Madrid. Her main objective is to bring software and hardware closer to people, not just people with technical backgrounds.

Image credit: Artist Frustrated.

Inés Bebea is founder of Ondula – technology is for the people (http://ondula.org) and author of the guide of ‘Critical Digital Literacy: an invitation to reflect and act’. She teaches courses and workshops on cyberactivity and critical communication, pedagogy of programming and prevention / intervention of cyberactivity and violence mediated by technology. Her career is focused on building a critical and active citizenship in the face of technological development.