Organizational Security
Facilitate digital security assessments and trainings
Internews has trained thousands of journalists and activists on digital security awareness and online safety practices at the international and grassroots levels in 80+ countries worldwide. With our groundbreaking SAFETAG framework for organizational security audits we train expert auditors in regions around the world, providing civil society organizations with the tools to recognize and reduce their digital vulnerabilities.
SAFE SISTERS
Promote digital safety and online inclusion
In addition to promoting an open and rights-oriented online environment, we engage directly with internet users to promote safe and secure means of navigating the digital space. We train vulnerable and high-risk internet users including women, human rights defenders and LGBTI persons to get ahead of closing environments, promote their inclusion online, and empower them to make their voices heard without fear of reprisal.
Make security USABLE
Improve existing privacy and security tools
We build global feedback loops connecting digital security trainers working with at-risk communities, design experts, and open source tool developers. Our human-centered design approach to the development of digital security software solves real world problems and builds better, more usable tools for communities who need them most.
Protecting Civic Space
Increasing understanding of the drivers of closing civic and political space
With funding from USAID, Internews is leading a seven-member consortium to implement the Enabling and Protecting Civic Space (EPCS) INSPIRES project. We support the USAID Center for Democracy, Rights and Governance (DRG) and the broader DRG community to strategically respond to the growing trend of closing civic and political space.
Infuse
Elevating Expertise for Digital Protectors
Infuse is a community-developed framework providing pathways for digital protectors (digital security trainers, technologists, auditors, etc.) to advance their knowledge and skill sets in areas of specialized technical expertise (STE). Infuse aims to make much-needed STE more widely available in contexts where at-risk communities need it the most, by upskilling protectors who already have established trust with these communities. This involves localizing expertise, as well as expanding accessibility to and increasing the diversity of providers of specialized digital security support.
SUSTAIN
Sustaining Safety Tools with Analytics, Insights, and Networking
Building on the success of the BASICS project, Internews launched SUSTAIN, a project with the goal to make critical open source safety tools more stable, secure, and user friendly by investing in improved sustainability for six critical tool teams that fulfill strategic needs of the community.
