eQualitie will engage in research, development, and test deployment of decentralized communications (or dComms) infrastructure in five target countries with repressive online censorship and surveillance. The goal is to better understand how communities in shutdown-prone contexts could leverage these federated networks to communicate and organize resiliently and safely.

eQualitie will collaborate with local partners on the planning and implementation of each deployment, as well as incorporate additional research efforts as required to respond to differing threat models across the contexts under consideration.