Łukasz Król

Highlights

The following is a selected list of talks, projects, and articles I’ve done over the past years.

   

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 dissident 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