Technology

Authentic Relational Conversations: Reaching Across Difference to Build a Pro-Democracy Movement

Reaching across difference using authentic relational conversations and organising to build a pro-democracy movement in the United States.

Innovative Tech for Social Justice Causes: Resources from Democracy Labs

Democracy Labs applies innovative tech to social justice and voting rights causes. Here is a list of tech ideas for campaigners & organizers.

The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance

A book about how small-scale drones, satellites, kites, and balloons are used by social movements for the greater good.

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State of Progressive Tech in Australia 2020

A 2020 survey of more than 50 organisations across the progressive movement about technology by the Progressive Tech Network Australia.

Digital Campaigning Webinars

Digital campaigning free webinars for Not for Profit & grassroots campaigners by Glenn Todd. Learn the tech fundamentals & tools to grow a grassroots campaign.

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Three open source tech tools for your campaigning

The right tech tools can make a huge difference to the effectiveness of a campaign or organising project. Check out Tijuana (campaign CRM), Neighbourly (doorknocking walk-list tool) and Spoke (p2p text tool).

Digital security basics for campaigners

Upgrade your digital security practices with this how-to guide of advice, tools and resources from Blueprints for Change.

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GetUp’s experiments and analytics

Digital campaigning – what works and what doesn’t? Get Up shares it learnings of digital experimentation and analytics.

Enhancing collective decision-making with technology

Ben Knight presented at Progress 2015 about the power of unleashing collective intelligence through better technology. He provides a short introduction to the Loomio platform for discussion and decision-making.

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7 tips for Facebook Risk Management

Facebook is a vital organising and networking tool but presents risks for activists. Digital security can seem overwhelming but we can all get better at it. There are organisations who have done a great job of breaking the information down and giving you support to improve your practices. Start with these 7 tips.

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Tools for More Secure Activism

CounterAct encourages the progressive and radical movements on the Australian continent to get better at digital privacy and security. Security culture is simply a set of practices that limits the ability for government or opponents to find out more information about you and interfere with or monitor your group. We’ve given you some tools to minimise this.

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Building 21st Century Movements

Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Founder and former Executive Director of SumofUs, at Progress 2015 with a series of movement case studies challenging us to be technological innovators and to bring our social change work to the cutting edge of the current century.