Helping vulnerable people and communities thrive online by resisting and recovering from scams, misinformation and other digital attacks.
Digital technologies that empower communities also expose them to digital harm—with serious physical, social, economic, and psychological impacts. Across MENA, Southeast Asia, and Eurasia, our field teams have supported more than 30,000 survivors while working with local partners to strengthen community resilience. Our prevention work combines localized awareness campaigns, digital-safety training, and self-help resources for vulnerable groups. We also lead research on the evolution of digital criminality, work with social media platforms as trusted partners to flag harmful content, and build partners’ capacity to detect and counter mis/disinformation that endangers their communities.
Digital Harms Stories
Novel to Newsroom: Four Iraqi Students Explore the World of Digital Harm
How four Iraqi students transformed youth fiction about online life into published media commentary on digital identity, memory, beauty and violence.
How Women Across MENA Pioneered a Regional Response to Digital Violence
What began seven years ago as an effort to understand digital violence against women has evolved into a region-spanning community of researchers, practitioners, and organizations driving lasting change.
What Siraj Teaches Us About Digital Resilience in Conflict
A new case study documents how our Siraj partnership project helped Yemeni youth push back against scams, misinformation, and other digital harms through trusted local leadership.
Digital Shadows: Testing a Novel Approach to Digital Safety for Girls Across MENA
Across the Middle East and North Africa, Meriem Noumeur's novel is opening conversations with girls about online identity, pressure, trust, manipulation — and learning to stay safe.
After the Fall: Digital Safety in Today’s Syria
Just over a year after the fall of the Assad regime, a longtime SalamaTech project leader shares her take on what’s changed in Syria—and the digital dangers people face now.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Inside Myanmar’s Cyber-Scam Compounds
How do Myanmar’s cyber-scam compounds trap thousands in cycles of fear and coercion? Journalist "Ying" spent two years investigating, and we've been pleased to support her work.
Publications
Shields Up: Ensuring Digital Duty of Care for Myanmar Researchers
Hooked by Hope: Social Media as a Scam-Worker Recruitment Tool
Scam Haven: Responding to Surging Cybercrime in Myanmar
Digital Swindles: Understanding and Combatting Online Scams in Myanmar
Deadly Posts: Harmful Social Media Content in Post-Coup Myanmar
Digital Resistance: Perceptions of Online Spaces and Tools in Political Activism in Myanmar
Seeing Fakes: Digital Literacy and Misinformation Resistance in Myanmar
Social Overload: Social Media Use and Mental Health in Myanmar
Targeted Identities: Online Harassment of LGBTQ Individuals in Myanmar
Debunking Myths: Counter-Narratives in the Fight Against Gender-Based Violence in Myanmar
