Month: July 2024

Workshop/seminar on cybersecurity for community radio journalists in Nepal

The ICT4D Collective was delighted to be involved in delivering an online workshop/seminar with our partners ACORAB (the Association of Community Radio Broadcasters) and CIN (Community Information Network) in Nepal on 24th July. This drew on our previous work in Nepal, as well as the session on community radio that we ran earlier in the year at WSIS+20 together with other organisations and partners. These form part of our increasing work on cyber-security. Some 70 participants, mostly journalists from community radio stations, participated in the two-and-a-half hour workshop which had four main aims:

  • To share information and ideas about the work that members of the Collective have been doing, mainly with migrants, on the safe, wise and secure use of digital tech in Nepal, South Africa, Brazil and Mozamibique;
  • To provide participants with advice that will hopefully be of value to them both personally and in their professional lives;
  • To share resources on cyber-security that can be used through community radio to advise listeners in Nepal; and
  • An opportunity for discussion and dialogue between participants

The slide deck used for the workshop is available here, and we would love to hear any feedback or suggestions about the content through our contact page.

More details can also be found here about our latest related publication: Guidance for small civil society organisations on using digital tech safely, wisely and securely

Guidance for small civil society organisations on using digital tech safely, wisely and securely

During one of our research visits to South Africa in January 2024 it became abundantly clear that many small and poorly resourced civil society organisations have little experience of using digital tech safely, wisely and securely. Drawing on good practices across the world, as well as our subsequent experiences in and with colleagues from Brazil, Nepal and Mozambiaue, we have therefore produced a short (12 page) guide to help such organisations understand the risks they are at from the use of digital tech and how they can be mitigated. This contains useful tips, graphics that can be copied and reversioned into posters, as well as links to more detailed sourcers of information, and it is freely available in English under a Creative Commons CC BY SA license.

Please get in touch using our contact page should you have any comments on how this could be improved or to discuss developing versions in other languages or for other contexts, and do please share information about this resource through your own networks.

This forms part of the ICT4D Collective’s ongoing research-practice in the safe, wise and secure use of digital tech, further details of which are available here.