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(en) FTX: Safety Reboot

The FTX: Safety Reboot is a training curriculum made up of several modules for trainers who work with women’s rights and sexual rights activists to use the internet safely, creatively and strategically.

Introduction

Online gender-based violence

Guide participants through the issues relating to online gender-based violence – its root causes,...

Creating safe online spaces

Facilitate learning and building capacity on creating safe online spaces, specifically for at-ris...

Introduction and learning objectives

This module is about facilitating learning and building capacity on creating safe online spaces...

Learning activities, learning paths and further reading

This page will guide you through the Module's correct use and understanding. Following the Learni...

Unpacking "safe" - visioning exercise [starter activity]

This is a visioning exercise. The main purpose of the exercise is for participants to express t...

The bubble - visualisation exercise [starter activity]

This is a visualising exercise. The purpose of this exercise is to facilitate discussion about ...

Develop your internet dream place [starter activity]

In this activity, participants consider elements of an online space where their community can t...

Photo-social-network [starter activity]

This is a visualization activity. The purpose of this activity is to get participants thinking ...

The cloud [starter activity]

This is a visualization activity. The purpose of this activity is to facilitate discussion abou...

Visioning + discussion: Settings + permissions [starter activity]

This is a visualising and discussion exercise. The purpose of this exercise is to facilitate di...

Input + discussion: Privacy, consent and safety [deepening activity]

This learning activity is about the trainer/facilitator giving input and facilitating a discussio...

Input + activity: Online safety "rules" [deepening activity]

This learning activity is about sharing basic principles of online safety, and having the parti...

Making online spaces safer [tactical activity]

The goal of this activity is to go through the privacy options for accounts and groups of the agr...

Alternative tools for networking and communications [tactical activity]

This learning activity is mostly guided hands-on for individuals and groups to start using alte...

Mobile safety

Work with participants to share strategies and tactics for using their mobile phones more safely ...

Introduction and learning objectives

In this module, we work with participants to share strategies and tactics for using their mobil...

Learning activities, learning paths and further reading

This page will guide you through the Module's correct use and understanding. Following the Learni...

Mobiles, intimacy, gendered access and safety [starter activity]

This is an introductory discussion about the ways that participants are using their mobile devi...

Making a mobile timeline [starter activity]

This is an introductory activity participants share personal experiences with mobile phones and...

Himalaya trekking [starter activity]

This is an introductory activity to raise participants' awareness about mobile security and for...

Collecting phones [starter activity]

This is an introductory activity to raise participants' feelings about their mobile devices and...

Me and my mobile [starter activity]

This is an introductory discussion. This is designed as a very short activity, to facilitate pa...

Mobile power - device, account, service, state, policy [deepening activity]

This is a collaborative mind-mapping activity. Through a facilitated conversation, the group wi...

What is a phone? How does mobile communication work? [deepening activity]

The purpose of this activity is to deepen knowledge of how mobile communications works in to su...

Debate: Documentation of violence [deepening activity]

This is a deepening discussion activity to facilitate discussion around using mobiles to docume...

Planning mobile communications for actions/organising [tactical activity]

The following are guiding considerations for groups who are organizing and participating in act...

Back it up! Lock it! Delete it! a.k.a. Someone took my mobile: Border crossings, arrests, seizure, theft [tactical activity]

In this activity, we plan and prepare for situations where participants and their phones may be...

Discussion, input + hands-on: Choosing mobile apps [tactical activity]

This is discussion and input activity that will focus on enabling the participants to choose mo...

Using mobiles for documenting violence: Planning and practicing [tactical activity]

This is a tactical activity for activists intending to use their mobile phones to document violen...

Reboot your online dating safety [tactical activity]

This is a tactical activity in which participants share safety tips and tricks for online datin...

Safer sexting [tactical activity]

This is a tactical activity in which participants share and practice safer sexting tactics. Le...

Feminist principles of the internet

Conduct activities to introduce and enhance feminists' appreciation of the Feminist Principles of...

Risk assessment

Introduce participants to the concepts that underlie risk assessment, and how to apply risk asses...

Learning objectives and learning activities

This page will guide you through the Module's correct use and understanding. Following the Learni...

Introduction to risk assessment [starter activity]

This activity is designed to introduce and exercise a framework for doing risk assessment. L...

Assessing communication practices [starter activity]

This activity is designed to enable the participants to look at their communication practices (...

Daily pie chart and risk [starter activity]

The purpose of this activity is to get the participants to assess what their daily or weekly ta...

The street at night [starter activity]

This activity is about bringing out how we practise assessing risks in order to live and surviv...

Re-thinking risk and the five layers of risk [deepening activity]

At the moment, what we have is a some ideas about how to re-think risk. This has not been conve...

The data life cycle as a way to understand risk [deepening activity]

Look at risk assessment from the perspective of the data life cycle. Activists, organisations and...

Organising protests and risk assessment [tactical activity]

Guide a group of people who are planning a protest into reflecting about and addressing the risks...

Risk assessment basics [foundational material]

Introduction We assess our risk all the time. This is how we survive. It is a process that is no...

Risk assessment in movement organising [foundational material]

Overview When thinking about risk assessment at the level of movement organising, it means expan...