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Tactical Tech

Develops educational resources, exhibitions and training that help civil society examine technology, information and power.

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Systemic Altruism practice potential: 70–80/100
90% of weighted axes reviewed. A mechanism hypothesis, not proven effectiveness or a donation recommendation.

Who this work enables

Tools & support for charities: Educational interventions, investigation resources and practitioner training for civil society and other implementers.

Humanity’s Checklist source match

Attention · Gatekeepers — editorial, partial alignment.

Critical digital literacy and reusable investigation skills can help people interpret manipulative information and lower knowledge barriers. This is not verification that the underlying attention economy has been redirected.

Explicit checklist adoption: not verified. A mechanism match is not an affiliation, endorsement, evidence of effectiveness or a scoring bonus. Read the practice.

Focus classification: 2026-10-27. Based on the organization’s dated official sources below; earlier axis-review dates are unchanged.

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The proposed pathway

Reusable digital-literacy and investigation capacity for civic organizations

Six dimensions, with rationale

Structural depth

3 / 4

Targets the skills and information conditions that shape people’s ability to scrutinize technology and institutional power, not only individual technical fixes.

Institutional reach

4 / 4

Adaptable formats and partnerships can support different civic groups and contexts, without proving equal access or beneficial outcomes at scale.

Durability

2 / 4

Reusable learning resources can persist, but digital practices, risks and information systems require ongoing updates and local support.

Scalability

3 / 4

Resource adaptation and training-of-trainers can reduce repeated work, while translation, safety and implementation quality remain context-dependent.

Funding additionality

Unreviewed

Unknown: specific unfunded resource or training needs, alternative providers, restrictions and the counterfactual effect of new funding were not audited.

Community agency

Unreviewed

Unknown: collaborative and bottom-up methods do not establish audited binding community rights over strategy, resource ownership or program decisions.

Evidence and selection

Organization reported; current primary mechanism sources inspected

Illustrative inclusion to examine this mechanism. Inclusion is not an external recommendation or a verified comparative ranking.

A testable next question

Do locally adapted resources produce sustained improvements in civic investigation or informed technology choices beyond available alternatives, without introducing new privacy or exclusion harms?

Review confidence: Moderate for documented design; low for systemic attribution. The registered Dutch Stichting identified in its imprint, RSIN 812331606, with a Berlin office; the review covers its educational/capacity model, not every third-party tool it uses.

What remains uncertain

The stated preference for open-source tools is not evidence that Tactical Tech maintains or licenses those tools. Creative Commons and software rights vary by asset; no named code repository was license-checked in this profile. Literacy interventions do not by themselves change feed incentives or guarantee safety.

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Axis review: 2026-10-27 · weighting method v0.2 (2026-10-26) · Method, conflicts and coverage