Building Secure Whistleblowing Platforms with GlobaLeaks Free Software

Sunday 28 November 2021, 11:00 - 13:00 at Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
Cost: €8 · Language: English · Tickets

Part of the conference Whistleblowing for Change: Exposing Systems of Power and Injustice (26-28 November 2021)

Building Secure Whistleblowing Platforms with GlobaLeaks Free Software

With: Rima Sghaier (Senior Community Operations Manager and MENA Regional Lead for Team CommUNITY, TUN/IT)

Understanding the power of anonymous whistleblowing in allowing more and more citizens to speak truth to power, the hacktivist community engaged in a number of research projects in order to create an accessible, secure, and easy-to-use whistleblowing tool. GlobaLeaks is a free open source software enabling the easy creation of anonymous whistleblowing platforms, a tool used today worldwide by more than 4000 media, NGOs and companies in 90 languages to create web-based contact pages that whistleblowers can access anonymously through the Tor Browser to report and share evidence of corruption, human rights violations and malpractices.

This workshop aims at improving the knowledge and the capacity of civil society organizations, journalists/media professionals and activists in using the GlobaLeaks software (demo and best practices) to build their own secure whistleblowing initiatives and presents the different ways they can contribute to the project from localization to feature requests.

Workshop leader

Credit: Rand, Zaafaran

Rima Sghaier is an intersectional feminist activist, researcher, policy analyst, FOSS enthusiast, and an avid advocate for internet freedom. She is currently Senior Community Operations Manager and MENA Regional Lead for Team CommUNITY.
Her work and research focus on the intersection of human rights, gender, policy and tech. She has consulted for digital rights NGOs including Access Now and the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) on issues of digital rights and digital safety in the SWANA region. Prior to joining Team CommUNITY, she worked with GlobaLeaks program managing and contributing to international projects to support NGOs, media, and investigative journalists to create secure whistleblowing platforms and is now supporting the project on advisory capacity. She was an OTF Digital Integrity Fellow with the Safe First Contact project focused on auditing and supporting the digital security skills of at-risk communities in MENA countries. She is currently a member of the Advisory Committee of Bread&Net. Rima holds a Bachelor and a Master’s degrees in Public Law and Political Science from the Faculty of Juridical, Political and Social Sciences of Tunis.

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