The following is a selected list of talks, projects, and articles I’ve done over the past years.
2024
Training
Led digital security introductory trainings during journalism workshops in Kraków, Poland (with Kolegium Europy Wschodniej) and Prague, Czech Republic (with the Achilles Data programme).
Workshop
I co-facilitated a discussion about accidental and deliberate insider threats within digital rights focused nonprofits, how we can talk about them, and what we could do to mitigate them at the 2024 Global Gathering in Estoril, Portugal
Training
Digital security trainer at the WEASA 2024 summer school
2023
Talk
I co-organized a discussion about security nihilism among digital security trainers and how we can combat it at RightsCon 2023, Costa Rica
Pro bono projects
Taught several dissident and activist groups effective holistic security strategies (further details available on request)
Training
Digital security trainer at the WEASA 2023 summer school
Training
Organised a digital security training as part of a HEFAT (hostile environment/ first aid training), allowing me to better explore the interplay between digital and physical security and how our pedagogies can account for that
2022
Publications
Co-authored a series of journalist digital security guides for Internews, including on device location security and working with sensitive sources
Training
Digital security trainer at the WEASA 2022 summer school
Training
Ran a digital security training for Fulbright scholars with the Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission
Pro bono project
Supported and advised several NGOs and nonprofits on effective digital security strategies
2021
Interview
Každá šifrovaná komunikace má slabinu. Novináři to svým zdrojům neříkají vždy otevřeně(in Czech, interviewed by Jan Žabka), HlídacíPes.org
Talk
Took part in the Freedom of the Press Foundation's last Twitch stream of the year!
Major project
Programme designer and consultant facilitator for the WEASA 2021 summer school
Publication
Wrote about the (digital) security needs of Central European journalists
Research
My research on using stationary AirTags to track moving objects was published by VICE Motherboard
New job
Started working with Internews as a Digital Security Training Specialist for Central European Journalists
Collaboration
Worked as a peer reviewer on the Ford Foundation's Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, which supports NGOs that want to assess and bolster their digital and operational security
Talk
Co-organised and moderated a discussion on recommendation algorithms for Fulbright Poland
2020
Training
Led remote digital security classes for Lebanese students
Training
Led digital security classes for activists and journalists as part of the Digital and Media Literacy for NGOs training organised by the Digital Communication Network
Training
Attended the month-long AXIS programme, both as a participant and a skillshare speaker
Research
Started working on a digital security due diligence checklist for small NGOs and media groups, presented it at the Internet Freedom Festival's OrgSec Village
Interview
Conducted an interview on data-driven democracy with Stefan Turkheimer
Webinar series
Co-organised and moderated a series of digital affairs webinars with DCN SEE the Digital Communication Network's Southeast Europe Hub
Major project
Programme designer and head facilitator for the WEASA 2020 summer school
Training
Led digital security classes for activists (Sarajevo)
Major project
Advised the leadership of a university on transitioning to an all-remote culture and communicating to students and others during the Covid-19 pandemic (Warsaw)
2019
Major project
Programme designer and head facilitator for the WEASA 2019 summer school
Talk
Siri and the Stewardess Smile: A Human-Machine Introspection (with Polaris, moderator: Feđa Kulenović), POINT Conference, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Talk
What do we talk about when we talk about AI?, Media Literacy in Action, Minsk, Belarus
Talk
Telling the Stories of Tech, Storytelling In Action Forum, Sofia, Bulgaria
Talk
What influencers need to know about AI, Digital Influencers in Action, Budva, Montenegro
Training
Led digital security classes for students (Warsaw) and activists (Sarajevo)
Interview
Nad novou technologií ztrácíme kontrolu a sami jí nerozumíme, varuje odborník na umělou inteligenci (in Czech, interviewed by Jaroslav Hroch), iRozhlaz
Article
Look Towards Norms, Not Treaties, To Regulate Digital Weapons, Yale Journal of International Affairs
2018
Major project
Programme designer and head facilitator for the WEASA 2018 summer school
Talk
Algorytmy, media społecznościowe oraz dziennikarstwo (Algorithms, social media, and journalism), Media Przyszłości, Warsaw, Poland
Talk
AI, Machine Learning, and Journalism, ARIJ18, Dead Sea, Jordan
Talk
How to be Human in an Age of Machine Learning and feel vaguely useful, DataFest Tbilisi, Georgia
Talk
What do we talk about when we talk about tech? Asia-Europe Foundation Young Leaders' Summit, Brussels, Belgium
2017
Major project
Programme co-designer and assistant facilitator for the WEASA 2017 summer school
Talk
How did the ‘Arab Spring’ differ from uprisings relying on print media? CheckCon, Beirut, Lebanon
Talk
Medieval monks, YouTube comments, and the future of open data The Democracy and Data Forum, Vinnytsia, Ukraine
Series
The Politics of Technology: a lecture series College of Europe in Natolin and BiznesLink, both Warsaw, Poland (2017-2018)
2016
Article
Digital foreign policy: how digital tools can further Europe’s foreign policy goals, European View