We have been working since 2020 with partners across the world to develop basic cybersecurity resources for migrants, especially in Nepal and South Africa (funded by UKRI GCRF) , and have more recently extended this work to other countries (with funding from ESRC Social Impact Accelerator, Reseaerch England ODA, and Social Purpose Funding throigh Royal Holloway University of London). One of the most exciting of these new initiatives has be the collaboration between G. “Hari” Harindranath and Tim Unwin from the ICT4D Collective, and Dr. Heloisa Meloni in Brazil. This has focused mainly on developing localised versions of our basic training materials originally developed in Nepal into Brazilian Portuguese, focusing especially on advice that would be useful to those living nas periferias and in the favelas.
These resources were originally launched at a workshop on 12th September 2024 at the Casa Resistências in Maré, Rio de Janeiro, with a specific focus on how they could be used by the LBT community living there. Since then, the basic slide deck been subdivided into 16 short video clips by J Lo and Heloisa Melino and these can be shared on social media or used in many other ways to disseminate the advice on safe, wise and secure use of digital tech, especially for the LBT communities living in Brazil’s favelas. Some additional material is also included in clips 12-16 on topics such as deepfakes and using digital tech in violent contexts. Click on the links below to watch and listen to the videos:
- Créditos
- O que são tecnologias digitais
- As tecnologias digitais tem grande potencial positivo
- Necessidade de começar com as tecnologias digitais
- O uso seguro das tecnologias digitais
- Elementos-chave para o uso das tecnologias digitais
- Elementos-chave para se manter seguro – tecnicos
- Lembre-se dos contextos em que você usa as tecnologias digitais
- O uso das tecnologias digitais com sabedoria
- O uso das tec digitais com privacidade
- Lembretes Finais
- Reconhecendo Notícias Falsas
- Evitando Golpes por E-mail
- Deepfakes – Ameaças
- Recomendações Específicas para sites do jogos de azar e apostas (bets)
- Recomendações específicas em contextos de ameaça ou risco de violências
They have also prepared 51 separate images of different parts of the original booklet, so that these can easily be posted on social media (scroll through the slide show below to see them; they can also be accessed individually through links from https://ict4d.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/1.png to https://ict4d.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/51.png):
We very much hope that these are helpful in many more Portuguese speaking contexts than just that for which they were original designed. They are made available under a Creatoive Commons BY SA license so they are free to use and adapt providing that new versions continue to be made available using the same license and appropriate credit is given.
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