Digital Security

CyberSim Ghana: DemTech Pilots Digital Security Learning Game for Election Observers

CyberSim Ghana: DemTech Pilots Digital Security Learning Game for Election Observers

By Guthrie Kuckes | October 11, 2024

Earlier this year, DemTech visited longtime NDI partners at the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD Ghana) in Accra. Over three days, NDI worked with members of CDD Ghana’s elections, IT, and communications teams to help identify and address their most critical risks heading into their observation of the upcoming Ghanaian elections.

Democracy Games for Democracy Gains: How DemTech uses games for good to support democracy programs

Democracy Games for Democracy Gains: How DemTech uses games for good to support democracy programs

By Jesper Frant | August 30, 2023

NDI’s DemTech team has a long history of experimenting with different types of games for good. We have even tried our hand at developing our own gaming platforms with varying levels of success. DemTech’s more recent efforts to gamify learning have favored the narrative fiction and tabletop-exercise style games.

How To Pick A Trustworthy Virtual Private Network (VPN)

How To Pick A Trustworthy Virtual Private Network (VPN)

By Marley Berk | January 19, 2023

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are becoming more and more common as something many people use or at least have heard about, but may not know a lot about how they work, what risks they carry, or what option is best for them.

Findings from the IGF’s Best Practice Forum on Cybersecurity

Findings from the IGF’s Best Practice Forum on Cybersecurity

By Evan Summers | January 14, 2022

Last year, I participated in the UN’s Internet Governance Forum’s (IGF) Best Practice Forum (BPF) on Cybersecurity. The BPF working groups form part of the IGF’s intersessional work between annual forums, and are designed to facilitate collaborative, community-led research around a certain topic affecting the internet and internet governance.