This course offers an introduction to internet shutdowns, including an overview of the shutdown problem and examples of different ways governments shut down the internet and other communications channels. It will examine how internet shutdowns exacerbate human rights abuses and interfere with democratic processes. The course looks into who is fighting back and multi-stakeholder advocacy strategies used by the global #KeepItOn coalition to end internet shutdowns.

Introduction to Internet Shutdowns

Advocating and Campaigning Against Internet Shutdowns

#KeepItOn Campaign Manager, Access Now

Felicia Anthonio

@FelAnthonio

Introduction to the course

The facts on internet shutdowns

How internet shutdowns harm human rights?

Quiz - The basics of internet shutdowns

History of internet shutdowns - From Egypt to Myanmar

Defining internet shutdowns (#KeepItOn definition)

Technical means to shutdown the internet

Quiz - Am I experiencing an internet shutdown

What are internet shutdowns?

Why internet shutdowns are a barrier to elections

Civil unrest, protests and shutdowns

What activists need to know

Case study - Susan Mwape, Common Cause Zambia Case study

Quiz - activity

Cuba Case Study - Norges Rodríguez, Yucabyte

Internet shutdowns and democracy

Tips for planning for shutdowns during elections and civil unrest

About the #KeepItOn Coalition

Internet shutdown monitoring tools

Liaising with national and International institutions over shutdowns

Why the private sector matters

Advocacy and internet shutdowns

Wrap up video

Course survey

Conclusion

Access Now

Data are everywhere - if you know where to look. This course will show you who is publishing data, and how to find it. Using publicly available data to tell stories is becoming more and more important for journalists today. Learning how to source and verify data is essential to finding important stories. But before you begin telling a story, how do you go about finding open data in the first place?

Open data research for journalists

Jonathan Stoneman

Introduction to course

Who publishes open data?

What can data do for me? Interview with Megan Lucero

How open is open data?

Open data quiz

What is open data?

Main sources of data

Quiz: Sources for data

Official sources of data

Government and other sources

Searching for data: Using advanced search techniques

What if it's a PDF?

Exercise: Find the table

Scraping data

Interview with data journalist Leila Haddou

Quiz: Handling datasets and scraping

Trusted sources

Privacy and the law

Quiz: Handling data and privacy

Data privacy and the law

Making progress with data

Iran Spotlight

This course will discuss cyber harassment and how to campaign online in a safe manner.

Big Data and the Social Networks

Cyber harassment: Concepts and prevention

Jennifer Kanaan

@trendsnutrition

Defining the scope of cyber harassment

Different types of cyber harassment

Effects of Cyber Harassment

Introduction to Course

General Digital Security Concepts

Your Safety

Digital security, gender and technology myths

Women in Tech

Digital Security & Gender

Safe online campaigning

Safe Online Campaign Quiz

Online Campaigning

Introduction to metadata

The metadata of an online activist

Metadata

The Institute for War and Peace Reporting

This course will cover how leading, popular social networks are using big data. We will also share useful tips on how to protect your privacy on these platforms.

What is big data?

How Facebook is using big data

The Instagram Acquisition and What Does it mean for Big Data

Big data and social networks

The big 3 and big data

Big Data Quiz

The big 3

How is Facebook Messenger turning into a new advertising platform

How is Twitter dealing with big data

Twitter and Facebook

Social Network Privacy

Tips to protect your privacy on social networks

Conclusion and final thoughts on big data

This course will give you an overview of how gender-based violence happens online, how it affects people, and how you can take action to stop it.

Recognising and Responding to Online Gender-Based Violence

Jan Moolman

@endVAW

Defining gender-based violence (GBV)

How does gender-based violence manifest itself in online spaces?

Quiz

Introduction

What makes these rights violations a matter of violence against women?

How GBV online affects women’s daily lives

Case study Impact of violence against women - Marta from Colombia

Recognising the gendered nature of GBV and its impacts

International agreements on GBV

International guidelines on business and human rights

International Law and GBV online

Challenges in national legal frameworks

Challenges in corporate policies

Advice on handling challenges

Challenges to addressing GBV

Overview of strategies

The Rights based approach

Campaign case study: Take Back the Tech!

Lobbying

Collaboration on National initiatives

Resisting GBV online

Case study Gender-based violence against women on the campaign trail in Kenya. Part 1

Case study Gender-based violence against women on the campaign trail in Kenya. Part 2

Case study Gender-based violence against women on the campaign trail in Kenya. Part 3

A case study

Activists and journalists are increasingly the victims of digital security problems like hacking and online censorship. This course teaches participants simple but effective methods to recognise and prevent the most common reasons for it occurring.

Secure passwords and encryption of data

Phishing, Malware and Social Engineering

Secure communications

Staying Safe Online And Using Social Media

Holly Kilroy

@hollykilroy 

Basic email security

Protecting my email accounts: two factor authentication

Protecting My Phone

Speaking Online

Secure Alternatives

Wrap-up video

Security First

What do we mean by staying safe online?

Basic internet safety

Internet censorship and monitoring

Bypassing internet censorship and monitoring

Protecting my social media

Watch out for warnings

Why are passwords important?

How do I make a strong password?

How can I store lots of passwords?

Encrypting  Data

Encrypting devices

Quiz - Password protection

Encrypting Data and Devices

The course will help you understand how to identify and prevent some of the most common digital security risks faced by activists – the uses of phishing and social engineering to spread malware on your devices and access your data.

What is malware?

How do we get malware?

How can we protect ourselves from malware?

What is phishing? How do I recognise it?

How can you protect yourself from phishing?

Phishing Case Study: Jillian York

What is social engineering?

Quiz - Phishing and malware quiz

What happens when the database you need to help your advocacy or social development project is a jumbled mess? No download button, no CSV file, no structured dataset. You see the information you want locked in PDF reports, in social networks (like Twitter and Instagram), or even in webpages, but you can't really do anything with it. No more! We will show you how to quickly and easily extract information from these non-structured sources into useful datasets. You will get data you thought were never accessible before, giving your projects a new level of refinement and relevance.

A Gentle Introduction to Scraping Data

Marco Túlio Pires

@mtrpires  

What is scraping?

My first scraper: Me!

Scraping, an introduction

Using ABBY FineReader Online  to extract data from PDFs

Using Tabula to extract tabular data from PDFs

My second scraper: unlocking PDF files!

Unlocking data from PDF files

Scraping Twitter data using IFTTT

My third scraper: Twitter & Instagram

Scraping data from Twitter & Instagram

A brief introduction to HTML

Using the webinspector

Uncovering the secrets of web pages

Using Google Sheets formulas to scrape data

Scraping data from webpages using Google Sheets

Scraping wikipedia

Scraping webpages, Part 1

Scraping data from webpages using Web Scraper

Web scraping

Scraping webpages, Part 2

School of Data

Charts and graphs are some of the easiest and best ways to visualise your data. They can help you turn complex datasets into easier to understand visuals that you can share in reports, on websites and on social media. 

This course will teach you how to choose the best chart and graph to fit your dataset and  includes lots of tips and techniques.

Courses

Open data research for journalists

Open data research for journalists

Cyber harassment: Concepts and prevention

Cyber harassment: Concepts and prevention

Big Data and the Social Networks

Big Data and the Social Networks

Recognising and Responding to Online Gender-Based Violence

Recognising and Responding to Online Gender-Based Violence

Secure communications

Secure communications

Staying Safe Online And Using Social Media

Staying Safe Online And Using Social Media

Secure passwords and encryption of data

Secure passwords and encryption of data

Phishing, Malware and Social Engineering

Phishing, Malware and Social Engineering

A Gentle Introduction to Scraping Data

A Gentle Introduction to Scraping Data

Visualise your data with the best charts and graphs

Visualise your data with the best charts and graphs

Cleaning and Analysing Data

Cleaning and Analysing Data

Data Gathering for Beginners

Data Gathering for Beginners

Developing SMART Goals for Successful Strategies

Developing SMART Goals for Successful Strategies