<div dir="ltr"><div><b><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">INVITATION</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">"Securing DiSSENT: Digital security for journalists in exile"</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">20.3.2025 at MiCT ROOF, 2pm to 4pm</span></b><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Censored for their work by repressive regimes, more journalists have been forced to report from exile in the last few years than ever before. In addition to myriad other risks and insecurities, these journalists are more vulnerable to digital security threats because they must communicate digitally with their sources, audiences and with each other to do their work.</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">A lot of research and information is now available about digital risks faced by</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">journalists and how to address them. There is also a lot of evidence-based</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">information now available about the risks faced by journalists working from exile, including digital risks and insecurities they are exposed to. But when we bring these two together, we see that the digital security tools and solutions being recommended for exiled journalists often require expensive hardware. They are asked to rely on commercial services such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), multi-factor authorisation (MFA) applications and security key-based hardware authentication which are mostly paywalled. These are also expensive for exiled journalists working with limited resources.</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">There is also little discussion about how these proprietary tools, platforms and</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">solutions are quite often offered by for-profit technology giants. With the current illiberal political climate in the USA where many of the tech giants who provide these security applications and services are based, the incentives for Google and its peer companies to maintain and provide free or low-cost digital security services to humanitarian organisations or journalists is arguably eroding fast. We do not have alternatives in sight yet, if the supports that journalists rely on disappear or are rolled back.</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">With this urgent background, this panel brings together experts on software</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">systems and digital security for journalists, exile media practitioners, and supporters of exile media and to ask what researchers, journalists in exile and media support organisations can do differently to safeguard exiled journalists and the crucial work they do, and the people they work with, from the digital insecurities they face.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><img src="cid:ii_m890u1cw0" alt="SM2.png" width="416" height="520"><br></div><img src="cid:ii_m890u1e41" alt="SM3.png" width="416" height="520"><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;white-space:normal">.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . <br><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;white-space:normal">MiCT<br><br>Klaas Glenewinkel<br>Managing Director<br><br>Media in Cooperation and Transition gGmbH<br>Brunnenstraße 9<br>10119 Berlin, Germany<br><br>P  +49 30 4849 302 16<br>M  +49 151 5042 3455<br><br><a href="http://mict-international.org" target="_blank">mict-international.org</a> </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;white-space:normal"><br></div></div></div></pre></div></div></div>