Innovation & Impact Award: Recognizing that Digital Resilience Matters
The SecDev Foundation has received the 2025 organizational Innovation and Impact Award in honour of Lewis Perinbam, co-presented by Cooperation Canada and World University Service of Canada.
Patchwork To Pathways: Learning to Support Iraqi Women Facing Digital Violence
With digital violence against women surging, an Iraqi organization worked with partners to build a durable response—intake, documentation, referrals, and outreach—so survivors can get the support they need.
Myanmar’s Digital Resistance: Ingenuity Under Repression
Even as Myanmar’s military tries to control online space, people on the ground keep adapting. Five studies map the creative resilience behind their organizing, fundraising, and survival.
MENA Team Embraces 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
During this year's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, our Salam@ MENA team advanced the global fight by celebrating research advances, co-launching two books and helping to amplify women's voices.
Gender as a Battleground in Post-Coup Myanmar: Six Studies
In post-coup Myanmar, gender is a battleground, and digital space is one of its fiercest fronts. Six studies expose the harms and offer ways forward toward safety and justice.
Myanmar’s Brutalizing Scam Sector: What it Will Take to Turn the Tide
A look inside Myanmar’s fast-growing scam economy, where trafficking, online manipulation and everyday fraud thrive amid crisis. Three new studies show why only international action can turn the tide.
MENA Women: From Online Harm to Hopeful Responses
One of our most trusted partners and funders recently profiled our joint efforts to combat online gender-based violence across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Local Voices, Global Impact: Our Myanmar Researchers at GDC 2025
Three contributors to our Myanmar Digital Research series are taking the stage at this year's Global Development Conference 2025, showing how researchers from fragile contexts are ready to shape global conversations about digital inclusion and power.
Strengthening Digital Resilience for Jordanian Women Leaders
Building on our recent research and frontline work, a new initiative will counter online abuse and support women’s full and safe participation in Jordan’s upcoming municipal elections.
Fandom for Freedom: How Myanmar Youth are Fueling the Resistance
Two young Myanmar researchers show how K-pop fans became unlikely engines of resistance after the coup. Now their work is breaking into Southeast Asia’s cultural conversation.