Our tool kit and website brings together emergent best practices, workflows, and tools that we gathered from speaking to over 26 communities members, educators, mutual aid groups, designers, artists and activists across the globe are using right now to host gatherings, and how design needs to change to best suit people, right now, from a privacy and human rights centered design standpoint.

When COVID19 struck, digital technologies became essential for connecting people and their communities. While such technologies can’t fix the systemic inequality revealed by COVID19, strong connections to communities is a foundation for social justice work. Yet, these tools were never designed for this kind of community building work. Most were built for businesses, not communities. Flaws such as poor security and moderation features created new forms of risk for new kinds of users.