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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Revelations about government interception of these confidential stories has caused us to redouble our efforts to lower the barrier to the use of strong, secure crypto software like Martus. For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills. Martus Desktop 4.5

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

So often, government control, or just lack of access to information and media, prevents people from really being able to be educated and informed about serious issues that are going on around them. We go on our gut instinct from people's answer to that one question, and then there is literacy testing involved as well.