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⏰ Today! Join our Community Call on website security for CSOs & nonprofits 🛡️ 📅 23 Sept | 🕒 3PM UTC 👨🏾‍💻 Brian Obilo, @EngnRoom Learn to: ✅ Stop common threats ✅ Fix weak spots ✅ Respond fast 🌍 Interpretation available 🔗 Register: engn.it/websecurity

Nonprofit & CSO websites are under attack. Join our Community Call: Website Security for CSO's & Nonprofits 🗓 23 Sept 2025 | 3PM UTC 👤 Facilitator: Brian Obilo @EngnRoom 🌍 Interpretation available 🔗 Register here: engn.it/websecurity

Next week, the @EngnRoom team steps away from daily routines to explore ideas that spark curiosity and align meaningfully with our shared work. Deep Dive Week is about learning, creativity, and connection. A chance to reflect, build, and grow. 🌀

Last week, @EngnRoom held a workshop with Puentes on digital safety, self-care, and collective care in Valle del Cauca🌱 15 activists from Cali, Palmira & Buga joined us, representing women’s groups, trans orgs, and anti-racism movements. Care is power. 💜

🌍 Working with data or communities? This is for you. Join a powerful convo on Responsible Data for Social Justice. 🗓️ June 24 – 1-hr Zoom session ✅ Register by June 17 📍 LATAM: 4:30PM UTC-5 → [engn.it/latam] 📍 SSA: 4PM EAT (1PM UTC) → [engn.it/ssa]

Our work with Puentes is about being intentionally interconnected — not just through tools, but in how we use and inhabit them. 🎧 Alejandro Gamboa: “...so we do not take decisions lightly on which ones to leave, which to use, or to inhabit.” 🔗Read more:engn.it/1d

🎧 “We will have better access to the memory of collective work...” Sofía Burbano of Oir Más on amplifying student voices + public knowledge. 📣 Dive deeper in our blog: engn.it/oirmas

We’re partnering with Puentes to strengthen digital resilience across Latin America & the Caribbean 🌎 Together, we’re co-creating tools to help activists use tech more safely, intentionally & sustainably—rooted in care and community. 🔗engn.it/1d

🚨 New Partnership! 🚨 We’re teaming up with Oír Más, a radio collective amplifying community voices across Latin America 🎙️🌎 Together, we’re working on: 📁 Ethical archiving 🔐 Data responsibility 📚 Digital resilience 🧩 Info ecosystems 🔗 More: theengineroom.org/from-memory-to…

🌟We are excited to announce our newest Matchbox partners for 2025: Trans Youth Initiative-Uganda (TYI-Uganda) and @TechHerNG 🌟 Learn more about TYI-Uganda and TechHer, as well as the Matchbox program here: theengineroom.org/announcing-our…

How do #SocialJustice orgs navigate mainstream & alternative social media? @EngnRoom, with support from @OpenSociety, explores what it takes to shift platforms. A must-read on #DigitalAdvocacy! 🔗 theengineroom.org/library/new-re… #TAIMember #AltTech #TechForGood

💫Join us Tuesday Jan 21 at 3:00pm UTC! We are introducing our Digital Resilience Hub, a platform that houses tools, resources + strategies for social justice orgs to strengthen their #digitalresilience. Learn more and sign up here: theengineroom.org/are-you-lookin…

I'll be hosting this event centered on meaningful connectivity. Register to join.

As Open Ownership prepares to enter a new strategy cycle, we are recruiting members for a new International Advisory Board. Read more: openownership.org/en/blog/open-o… #NonProfitJobs #NonExecRoles #NGOBoardRoles #NGOJobs @UNjobs @EngnRoom

🌐 Are you passionate about digital rights and online freedom? SMEX is seeking a Programs Manager to drive impactful projects safeguarding digital spaces in the WANA region. 🔗Check the job description and apply now: smex.org/opportunities/…

At the 81st Ordinary Session of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (#ACHPR81), CIPESA will contribute to discussions on #internetshutdowns, #civicspace, and #digitalrights in Africa. Here is more 👉🏾cipesa.org/2024/10/cipesa…

Software updates are everywhere around us, from our smartphones to our laptop or smart TV, annoying us at the worst moment. Yet, they matter more than you might think! Ever wondered why? Here’s the answer: privacyinternational.org/advocacy/4636/…

🚨 ¡Ya llegó, ya está aquí… el flyer de #DatosyCheves! 🍻 ✨Acompáñanos a conocer proyectos dateros en esta edición especial desde el Festival Contar(nos) ¡Te esperamos! 🤗 📆23/10/24 ⏰7:00 pm 📌Cervecería Belga, #Hermosillo, Sonora, 🇲🇽 📋Registro🤓👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

📣 ¡Hoy! Únase a nosotras para una discusión en línea sobre cómo la sociedad civil (de América Latina y el Caribe) respondiendo a los desafíos relacionados con cuestiones de género en el contexto de ecosistemas informativos hostiles theengineroom.org/es/serie-de-ev…