Projects

Volunteer opportunities and ways to get involved

Get Involved

How to Help

Volunteer for one of these projects, or propose one of your own

Major Initiatives

  • Help us develop and test this application for advocates and targets of abuse through technology
  • Help us develop and test this application to collect and analyze data on intimate partner violence and cyberstalking to facilitate academic and other research
  • Matching online coding and other technology training with technology mentors
  • Matching trained coders and technologists with online technology jobs

Working Groups

Form a local Working Group on Technology/Bio/Med and DV: IPVTech

  • Hold brainstorming sessions
  • Identify projects
  • Connect with local firms/organizations

Research & Documentation

Research & document technology-specific and general Safe Technology Practices

  • Publish best practices
  • Develop mobile phone security curriculum

Protocol Development

Develop protocols for advocates working with technology-enabled abuse

  • Determine if a client is under surveillance
  • Questions advocates can ask
  • Recommended protocol publication

Technology Analysis

Analyze shelter cellphone policies and best practices

  • Publish analysis of effective policies
  • Propose best practices

Application Development

Implement new applications for the DV community

  • Create a DV Service Client database
  • Create an Abuser Client database
  • Shelter reservation systems

Data & Research

Collect Statistics/Data to support DV technology

  • Research and analysis
  • Identify databases and improve data integrity
More Opportunities

Additional Ways to Help

Training & Education

  • Provide DV Training opportunities for technologists/biomed researchers
  • Provide Technology Training opportunities for DV services providers
  • Facilitate Speaking Opportunities for technologists at DV organizations
  • Develop Lists of research topics for students/classes at academic institutions

Events & Community

  • Organize Hackathons - events/workshops to tackle projects
  • Provide spaces to meet (offices, community centers)
  • Seek opportunities to address need for Volunteer Technologists

Technical Projects

  • Provide Forensic Analysis Services of devices for targets who are being stalked
  • Come up with easy way to setup Tails on shared computers in shelters
  • Implement web crawler to scrape and collect police logs
  • Query case histories/law enforcement cases to find incidents of technology in existing abuse cases

Advocacy & Funding

  • Seek grants to fund development and research projects
  • Technologists to request of Verizon and other telecom providers to increase their donations
  • Publish landmark cases with interviews of authors

Have a project idea?

We welcome new ideas and proposals. Contact us to discuss how you can contribute to combating technology-enabled abuse.

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