Battle Testing aims to find a solution to some of the disconnects between tool developers, digital security trainers, and end-users in the internet freedom community.
The goal of ‘Battle Testing’ is to create a baseline of data and guidelines that allows the Internet freedom community to make evidence-based and cost-effective decisions about placing tools and knowledge with those in censored and surveilled environments. The project focuses on working with specific groups of users operating in repressive and challenging environments. They will test four hypotheses regarding which pedagogical methods result in maximum uptake with users from these repressive information environments. Data collected from the assessment and the pedagogical study will be analyzed to propose evidence-based pedagogical approaches to training at-risk users.
