This report provides a scoping of the key geopolitical, technological, and economic trends impacting our digital resilience ecosystem.

Building on the trends we highlighted in this report, join us in this conversation on how digital resilience organizations are strategically addressing two patterns: the increasing consolidation of infrastructure by a handful of big tech companies, and the changes in the funding landscape are affecting our ecosystem. In particular we will be addressing these main questions:

How can civil society organizations working in the global majority respond to the increased consolidation of infrastructure by big tech?
How can the global majority respond to changes in the funding ecosystem from a resilience perspective? What can organizations and communities do to prevent harsher impacts? What alternatives exist and can be leveraged in the global majority?

In this webinar we will hear from:

Tanya Lockwood, Executive Director, Fundación Acceso, Costa Rica
Juan M Casanueva, CEO and Co-founder, SocialTIC, Mexico
Mohamed Najem, Executive Director, SMEX, Lebanon
Nighat Dad, Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation, Pakistan
Esra’a Al Shafei, Founder and Executive Director of Majal, Bahrain
Nanjira Sambuli, Tech Policy Researcher and Analyst, Kenya
Juan Ortiz Freuler, PhD candidate & Wallis Annenberg Fellow at USC, USA

Juan Ortiz Freuler, the author of the report, to give a short presentation about these trends and the methodology of producing the report. This session will be facilitated by Lidija Sabados, Critica’s Head of Programs.

https://digitalresilience.network/20-mar-report-launch-webinar-scanning-the-horizon/