Digital Citizenship: A Primer
If you use the internet, then you are a digital citizen. This means you have a responsibility for the things you do online – it’s...Read More
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Saving Syrian Lives: A Woman’s Work is Never Done Even Online
Sarah al-Hourani’s life changed dramatically with the Syrian uprising in 2011. Until the protests that rocked her hometown of Daraa over the arrest and torture...Read More
Celebrating Cyber Women 2018
All around the world, women are using digital technology to innovate. To celebrate these achievements, the SecDev Foundation will be featuring inspiring women and their...Read More
Black Rose Book Launch
Using Manga to Teach Digital Safety in Vietnam Custom graphic novel sheds light on online dangers and human trafficking. The SecDev Foundation is proud to...Read More
Internet in Syria Remains Critical – and Challenged
By Abdulrahman al-Masri Internet in Syria remains critical – and challenged. Footage from Vice on HBO’s latest documentary, Assad’s Syria, shows a large web of exposed and intertwined wires in the...Read More
Introducing Black Rose: Be a Cyber Super Star!
Join with us to become a cyber super star! Black Rose is a dramatic story of a famous singer coming face-to-face with the dark side of...Read More
Getting Girls into Tech: 5 Ways to do Better
A special look at what helps encourage girls to get into the tech field – from the vantage point of high school student, Noor Madhoun...Read More
Create a Strong Password in 5 Simple Steps
Passwords provide the first line of defense against unauthorized access to your online accounts. Yet most people still aren’t taking passwords seriously. According to a...Read More
SecDev Foundation Funds Digital Citizenship Symposium in Hanoi, Vietnam
Digital Citizenship on the Agenda following Vietnam’s Safer Internet Day 2017 The SecDev Foundation supported a symposium on digital citizenship in Hanoi on 22 February...Read More
SalamaTech: Harnessing Technology to Advance Peacebuilding
Our own Anwar Abas participated in a debate on PeaceTech earlier today. The panel session, hosted by the Centre for Security and Governance, is part...Read More
Women, Violent extremism and the Internet: Empowering Prevention – 6 March 2017
On March 6th the CIC National Capital Branch, in cooperation with the SecDev Foundation, hosted the event, Women, Violent Extremism and the Internet: Empowering Prevention;...Read More
Women, Technology & Partnerships – Countering Terrorist use of the Internet
The CIC National Capital Branch, in cooperation with the SecDev Foundation, present a special panel on “Women, Technology & Partnerships-countering terrorist use of the Internet” on...Read More
United Against Extremism – 7 March 2017
United Against Extremism: How the UN and Tech Companies are Confronting Online Hate The SecDev Foundation is a proud co-host of a special event called...Read More
Violent Extremism on-line: Drivers, Evidence and a Way Forward
What are the drivers of violent extremism on-line? What do we know about its impact? How do we engage industry and leverage the potential of...Read More
Trading Nukes: Does Canada need a new North Korea policy?
An immersive cultural experience hosted by the Intelligence Futures Working Group – Thursday 20th of October 2016 North Korea matters. A war on the Korean...Read More
PeaceTech and the Syrian Conflict: What Canadians Are Doing
Join us on 30 September 2016 at Ottawa’s Peace Festival as we share our experience with PeaceTech and the Syrian conflict. Peacetech in Syria The...Read More
Look Beyond the CVE Buzzwords; See the People
With all the talk of countering violent extremism (CVE), it can be easy to lose sight of the most important aspect of any conflict: people....Read More
Why Helping Syrians is Harder than it Should Be
While the Syrian civil war continues to rage more than five years on, the challenges in helping Syrians caught in conflict grow. The U.N. estimates that...Read More
Introducing the Central Asian Internet Governance Forum
The first Central Asian Internet Governance Forum will be held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on June 21-22, 2016 – and the SecDev Foundation is a proud...Read More
High School Students Wanted To Help Syrians Be Heard
Are you a high school student in Ottawa seeking to complete volunteer hours in a meaningful way this summer? Join us in a project aimed...Read More