Community Health Report
Our annual Community Health Report looks at the state of digital rights human networks found throughout the world.
The annual Community Health Report provides leaders and community members in the digital rights space with practical insight and solutions to improve the health of the field and the people that are part of it. In addition, from Team CommUNITY’s vantage point as a community node in the global digital rights network, it provides a snapshots of developments that took place in the last year. Themes and focus vary each year to reflect current needs and challenges facing digital rights networks.
Past Reports
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Community Health Report 2022/2023 provides an overview of the emerging challenges that digital rights and Internet Freedom networks across the globe are facing, while providing vivid insights into the experiences of digital rights defenders in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Read it here
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Pathways to Organizational Recovery provides community leaders and members with analysis, trends, reflections, and recommendations; so they can better identify interventions and areas of growth. Read it here
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The inaugural 2020 edition provided insight into the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the mental health of digital rights defenders, providing community leaders with recommendations and paths forward. Read it here
What is the Digital Rights Community?
The digital rights community includes grassroots activists, journalists, human rights defenders, open source technologists, privacy and security advocates and researchers from over 130 countries.
They are subjected to, or fighting against the most acute forms of online surveillance, censorship and digital attacks, designed to further marginalize and silence them.