2024 Global Gathering

The Global Gathering (GG) brings together digital rights networks from around the world for three days of collaboration building, knowledge sharing, brainstorming, and rejuvenation.

The 2024 programmatic themes are Ecosystem Wellbeing; Circumvention Technologies; Security, Threats, and Risks; and Digital Rights 2050. Event activities focus on enhancing networking, and collaborative discussions through meetups, workshops, project showcases, and much more!

The 2024 edition will double in size from the 2023 event to around 900-1,000 participants, part of Team CommUNITY’s three-year plan to grow the event in a safe, secure and sustainable way to the size and scope achieved pre-pandemic.

Programmatic Themes for 2024

Ecosystem Wellbeing: Sustainability and wellbeing of the digital rights ecosystem. This track will be a unique opportunity to promote dialogues between different stakeholders to advance policies and practices that strengthen organizations and networks in the ecosystem and impact the quality of the work we produce.

Circumvention Technologies: Dedicated to developers and maintainers of any type of circumvention infrastructure. This track facilitates spaces where public-interest technologists from all over the world will be able to exchange ideas, experiences and eventually produce new projects.

Security, Threats and Risks: This track presents security in a holistic context, focusing on the risks impacting freedom of expression, freedom of information, and privacy, security and safety of civil society. Diverse stakeholders, ranging from security experts and tech developers to journalists and media specialists, can collectively brainstorm.

Digital Rights 2050: This track focuses on anticipating scenarios of action for the global community of digital rights defenders, for example emerging threats. Digital rights is a field that constantly needs to incorporate new topics and challenges given the fast developments in digital technologies and their impact on society. This theme is meant to give us some time to reflect and think about what’s coming down the pipeline. 

Find out more about the event here.